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Curriculum vitae for Prof. Giovanni B. Palmerini, PhD
[born in Cagliari (Italy), November 8th, 1966]

Academic Position, Education and Degrees
- Full Professor of Space Systems, Sapienza Università di Roma (2019, present position).
- Associate Professor of Guidance and Navigation Aerospace Systems, Sapienza Univ. Roma (2000 -18).
- Co-founder and manager, Guidance and Navigation Lab, Sapienza Università di Roma (2009 - to date).
- Lecturer, Master Course in Space Transportation Systems, Sapienza Univ. Roma (2006 - 2018).
- Contract Professor of Aerospace Navigation, Università di Bologna (2004-11).
- Assistant Professor in Space Systems, Scuola di Ingegneria Aerospaziale, Sapienza Univ. Roma (1996-99).
- Visiting Scholar, AeroAstro Dept., Stanford University (1996).
- PhD in Aerospace Engineering, Università di Roma La Sapienza , defending the thesis Satellite Constellations Orbital Configuration, Dynamics and Control , advisor prof. F.Graziani (1996).
- Aeronautical Engineer (laurea degree cum laude), Università di Roma La Sapienza defending the thesis Linear and non-linear dynamics of structural plates , advisor prof. P.Santini (1991).
- Visiting Student, NASA Langley Research Center, Structural Acoustics Branch (1991).

Most Significant Professional, Research (last 5 years): Achievements, Positions as Expert and Jury Member
- Elected Corresponding Member (2016) and Member (2020) of the International Academy of Astronautics.
- Member, International Astronautical Federation Space Communications and Navigation (SCAN) Committee (since 2014), and Astrodynamics Committee (since 2018).
- Member of the Italian delegation at the International Committee on GNSS (since 2008).

- Lead author for the RTO/NATO Agardograph High Precision Global Positioning System (GPS) for Flight Testing (2006-2008).
- Experiment manager for RSIS experiment onboard ESA lunar mission SMART-1 (2003-2007).
- Participant to the design, manufacturing, test and launch campaign of the first Italian microsatellite UNISAT, injected into orbit from Baikonur on September 2000.

- Manager of the studies on Satellite Formation Flying for Thales Alenia Space Italy (2019 - to date)
- Manager of the Sapienza team for an ESA funded-study on GNSS navigation in lunar missions (2013-15).
- Co-I/proposal manager for an Astrium/Airbus funded-study on space debris removal (2012-15).

- Member of the Aerospace Engineering PhD Board at Sapienza Università di Roma (2000 - 13).
- Member of the Energy and Environment PhD Board at Sapienza Università di Roma (2012 - to date).
- Member of the PhD graduation committee for Cranfield, Strathclyde and Surrey Universities (UK), SupAéro (France), EPFL (Switzerland), Universities of Naples, Padua and Politecnico di Milano (Italy).
- Expert evaluator, European Union Framework Programs and Horizon 2020 (2012-2020), Lithuania (2016), Latvia (experts board chair, 2017), Kazakhstan (2017/19/20), Hong Kong and the Netherlands (2020).

- Senior Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Member of the Institute of Navigation (ION), of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), of the Italian Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIDAA).
- Organizer and chair at the IEEE Aerospace Conference, session on Spacecraft Formations (2004 - to date) and session on Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation and Control (2009 - to date).
- Academic Editor for the International Journal of Aerospace Engineering (Hindawi, 2017-to date)
- Associate Editor for Aerotecnica Missili & Spazio (Springer, 2018- to date) and the Chinese Journal of Aeronautics (Elsevier, 2012- to date), Member of the Editorial Board for Machines (MDPI, 2014- to date);
- Reviewer for the most important international specialist scientific journals in the space engineering field.

Publications
- To date Prof. Palmerini is author/co-author of 90 fully peer reviewed articles published in international journals and proceedings, and more than 150 conference papers accepted as abstracts and then edited and published in indexed volumes or proceedings. Details can be found on main international databases as Scopus (author ID 6603132122, 172 publications listed, 1458 citations, h-index 21) and Web of Science (102 publications listed, 694 citations, h-index 16). ORCID ID for prof. Palmerini is 0000-0001-8976-8750.

(updated September 2022)