Position in Planetek Italia: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Planetek Italia.

Other activities: BoD Member of D-Orbit S.p.A., Vice Chairman of EARSC (European Association of Remote Sensing Companies) and of the Apulian Aerospace District (DTA), BoD member of SME4SPACE (the European Aerospace SMEs Association), Past President of AIPAS (the Italian Aerospace SMEs Association).

Education: Degree in Physics. He is specialized in “Sistemi di Posizionamento Preciso con Tecniche Spaziali”, and realizes a traineeship at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Harvard Md. USA. He has produced several publications in the field of analisys of signals and images and of space systems.

Background: in 1984, he was recruited at the Earth Observation Division of the Piano Spaziale Nazionale of the Italian National Research Council (after 1989 ASI, the Italian Space Agency) in charge of a major space geodesy project. He cooperated with NASA to establish a long-term NASA plan in Geodesy and Geophysics and launch the LAGEOS II satellite. From 1988 to 1995, he was recruited by the Italian Space Agency. From 1987 to 1995, he was an Italian representative member of the European Space Agency (ESA) for cooperation in Earth Observation with major Space Agencies. He was director of the Center of Space Geodesy of the Italian Space Agency (ASI), the ASI facility for remote sensing, space geodesy, and space robotics until 31/12/1995. He was a professor at the Urban & Regional Planning course at Venice University Institute of Architecture (IUAV) for several years, and he cooperated with the Nettuno Institute for the University Everywhere.

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