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Mattia Giovanni Crespi - Curriculum Vitae

Mattia Giovanni Crespi was born in Milan, December 6, 1963. He received his degree in Civil Engineering Summa cum Laude in 1987 at Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy) and his PhD in Geodesy and Surveying in 1992 at Politecnico di Torino (Turin, Italy) (Supervisor: Em. Prof., DDDr. H.C. Fernando Sansò).

He is professor of Positioning and Geomatics at the Sapienza University of Rome since 2005 (where he was Associate Professor in the same disciplines since 1998), and director of the Sapienza School for Advanced Studies (since 2021), where he is senior fellow (since 2015) and was Coordinator of the Academic Class in Science and Technology (2018-2021). He is coordinator of the National Ph.D. Course in Earth Observation (since 2022).

He is serving for Sapienza as member of the Patent Commission (since 2021) and as representative in the Council for Doctoral Education of the European University Association (since 2021). He served for Sapienza as Dean of the BSc and MSc Courses in Environmental Engineering (2007-2013), as Coordinator of the PhD Course in Infrastructures and transports (2007-2013), as member of the PhD Governing Board (since 2014), and as representative in the Council for Doctoral Education of the European University Association (2016-2019).

He is author and co-author of more than 300 publications (more than 130 internationally peer-reviewed). His investigation topics are: computational problems in geodesy and photogrammetry; geodetic positioning, navigation and monitoring; GNSS meteorology, seismology and ionosphere sounding; optical and SAR image processing; 3D objects and terrain modeling; geodesy and Earth observation for geohazards; geospatial (big) data analysis; Geomatics versus other sciences (Archaeology, Glaciology)

He is serving in international associations as Vice-president of the Inter-Commission Committee on Theory of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG), Italian Correspondent within IAG Council, and Vice-president of the European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL).

He is fellow of the International Association of Geodesy (since 2019) and member of the Copernicus Academy (since its foundation in 2016)

He is chairman/co-chairman of international study groups within the International Association of Geodesy (IAG), the European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL) and the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS).

He is serving as editor for international peer-review journals (European Journal of Remote Sensing, Journal of Geodesy, Remote Sensing, Satellite Positioning, Geospatial Information Science, NDT, EiC for Engineering Remote Sensing section of Remote Sensing), and served as guest editor international for peer-review journals and proceedings (International Association of Geodesy Symposia - 3 vols.; International Journal of Remote Sensing - 1 special issue; Remote Sensing - 3 special issues; Rendiconti Lincei - 2 special issues).

He was reviewer of research proposals for international and national Funding Agency: Austrian Science Fund, US National Science Foundation, German Fund, Luxembourg Research Fund, French National Agency for Research, and Italian Agency for University and Research System evaluation.

He was visiting professor at University of South Pacific, Fiji (MUNDUS ACP Project 2012), National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan (2013), Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina (2015), Wuhan University, China (2018), and visiting scientist at Université Paris Diderot - Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France (2020).

He was recipient of the following awards: DLR Special Topic Prize and Audience Award of the European Satellite Navigation Competition in 2010 (VADASE approach); Success Story of the European Satellite Navigation Competition in 2012 (VADASE approach, then implemented within Leica Geosystems AG GNSS receivers for permanent stations in 2015); ESA Certificate for Galileo In-Orbit-Validation in 2014, COSPAR Outstanding Paper Award in 2018; Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei Prize of the Ministry of Culture for Astronomy, Geodesy and Geophysics in 2018; Fellow of the International Association of Geodesy in 2019.

He is the coordinator of the Positioning and Image Analysis Groups at Sapienza Geodesy and Geomatics Division, which is member of Copernicus Academy since its foundation in 2016; these Groups are recipient of more than 30 national and international awards (among them 10 Google Grants within Google Summer of Code in 2012 to 2016, one NASA Space Apps Challenge Global Award in 2016, one 1 AXA UNESCO PostDoc Fellowship, 3 Italian Scientists and Scholars of North American Foundation Internships, 7 Italian Association of Professors in Geomatics (AUTeC) Best Ph.D. Thesis of the year, 2 Italian Society for Photogrammetry and Surveying (SIFET) Prize for Young Scientist of the year).

Mattia G. Crespi, finally, is co-inventor of two patents, supported by the Sapienza University of Rome, in the frame of GNSS positioning (VADASE, 2010) and high resolution optical and SAR satellite imagery processing (matching strategy, 2013), and co-founder and scientific advisor of Kuaternion, start-up of Sapienza; Kuaternion was recipient of two Research Stock Market Awards 2018 form IBM Italia and Leonardo.