Nicola Marchetti leads the Wireless Engineering and Complexity Science (WhyCOM) lab at CONNECT in Trinity College Dublin.

He received the PhD in Wireless Communications from Aalborg University, Denmark in 2007, and the M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from University of Ferrara, Italy in 2003. He also holds an M.Sc. in Mathematics which he received from Aalborg University in 2010.

He worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Ferrara in 2003-2004. He then was a PhD student in 2004-2007 and a Research and Teaching Post-Doc in 2007-2010 at Aalborg University. His collaborations include research projects in cooperation with Nokia Bell Labs and US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, among others.

His research interests include Radio Resource Management, Self-Organising Networks, Complex Systems Science and Signal Processing for communication networks.

He has authored in excess of 140 journals and conference papers, 2 books and 8 book chapters, holds 3 patents, and received 4 best paper awards. He is a senior member of IEEE and serves as an associate editor for the IEEE Internet of Things Journal since 2018.