CURRICULUM

Mattia Crespi - Curriculum Vitae

ORCID: 0000-0002-0592-6182

SCOPUS: 35603258500

ERC Sectors
PE8_3 Civil engineering, architecture, maritime/hydraulic engineering, geotechnics, waste treatment
PE10_14 Earth observations from space/remote sensing
PE10_20 Geohazards: earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis and other ground instabilities
SH2_12 GIS, spatial analysis; big data in political, geographical and legal studies

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
(6) Clean water and sanitation
(9) Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
(11) Sustainable Cities and Communities
(13) Climate Action
(14) Life below water
(15) Life on Land

Mattia 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 PhD Course in Earth Observation (since 2022). He is research associate at Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (since 2024).

He is fellow (Socio Corrispondente) of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (since 2023), of the United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) Academy (since 2022), of the International Association of Geodesy (since 2019) and member of the Copernicus Academy (since its foundation in 2016).

He is serving for Sapienza as member of the Faculty Committee for selecting Emeritus Professors (since 2025), 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 (2014-2021), 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 140 internationally peer-reviewed). His investigation topics are: computational problems in geodesy and photogrammetry; geodetic positioning, navigation and monitoring; GNSS seismology, ionosphere sounding and meteorology; optical and SAR image processing; 3D objects and terrain modeling; geodesy and Earth observation for geohazards; geospatial big data analysis; geomatics versus other sciences (urban climatology, glaciology, archaeology).

He is serving in international associations as Member of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) Executive Committee and President of the Inter-Commission Committee on Theory of the IAG (since 2023), Representative of the IAG-ICCT within the Science Panel of IAG-Global Geodetic Observing System (since 2017), Italian Delegate within IAG Council (since 2016), Vice-president of the European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL) (since 2021), Italian Delegate within EARSeL Council (since 2018), Member of the EARSeL Bureau (since 2015).

He is chairman/co-chairman/advisor of international study groups within the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) (since 2015), the European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL) (since 2009) and the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) (since 2012).

He is serving as editor for international peer-review journals (Journal of Geodesy, Satellite Navigation, European Journal of Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing, 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; Measurement Science and Technology - 1 special issue).

He has served as reviewer for more than 30 international peer-review journals of Q1 and Q2 quartiles and 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/scientist at DLR (German Aerospace Center), Germany (2011), University of South Pacific, Fiji (MUNDUS ACP Project 2012), National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan (2013), Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina (2015), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) – NASA/Caltech, USA (2017), Wuhan University, China (2018), 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); ESA (European Space Agency) Certificate for Galileo In-Orbit-Validation in 2014; COSPAR (Committee on Space Research) Outstanding Paper Award in 2018; Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei Prize of the Ministry of Culture for Astronomy, Geodesy and Geophysics in 2018.

He is the coordinator of the Positioning and Image Analysis Groups at Sapienza Geodesy and Geomatics Division; 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 AXA UNESCO PostDoc Fellowship, 3 Italian Scientists and Scholars of North American Foundation Internships, one URSI Young Scientist Award, 9 Italian Association of Professors in Geomatics (AUTeC) Best PhD Thesis of the year, 3 Italian Society for Photogrammetry and Surveying (SIFET) Prize for Young Scientist of the year), 2 Italian Remote Sensing Society (AIT) Eugenio Zilioli Award for MSc Theses.

His major scientific achievements are:

1. GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) data processing:

- Initial GPS phase ambiguity estimation with an original Bayesian approach (PhD thesis)

- GPS meteorology: first Italian experiment for GPS and ground radiometer comparison on a GPS network; large scale GPS meteorology over South America (cooperation with: CONICET, Argentina)

- Variometric approach (VADASE): real-time GPS seismology with a stand-alone receiver

  (awarded by: DLR–German Aerospace Center, European Space Agency; licensed by Sapienza University of Rome to Leica Geosystems AG)

 (International Patent: System for measuring coseismic movements or vibrations of structures based on global navigation satellite systems-gnss and/or pseudolites) (https://www.google.com/patents/EP2580607A1?cl=en&dq=en)

- Variometric approach for the ionosphere (VARION): real-time detection of tsunami ionospheric disturbances with a standalone GNSS receiver (cooperation with: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) – NASA/Caltech, USA; Université Paris Diderot - Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), France)

2. Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite imagery processing:

- Procedure for high resolution satellite imagery quality assessment

- High-resolution SAR radargrammetry with COSMO-SkyMed and TerraSAR-X imagery (cooperation with Italian Space Agency)

- Matching strategy for optical and SAR high resolution satellite imagery

  (International Patent: Matching procedure and device for the digital modelling of objects by stereoscopic images)

  (https://www.google.com/patents/EP2772801A1?cl=en&hl=en)

3. Geodesy application to global geodynamics and seismology:

- Space geodesy validation of the global flow in the Earth lithosphere

- Integration between seismology and geodesy for intermediate-term narrow-range earthquake prediction according to the neodeterministic approach NDSHA

4. Close range optical imagery processing:

- Digital Image Correlation (DIC) for displacement and strain measurements in the field of experimental mechanics

- Crack Monitoring from Motion (CMfM): Crack detection and measurement using cameras with non-fixed positions and deep learning (cooperation with KTH, Sweden)

5. Geospatial big data analysis:

- Urban land surface temperature monitoring with Landsat long time series

- 3D land changes detection and measurement with optical imagery time series and deep learning approaches

- Glacier surface velocity monitoring with Sentinel-1 long time series

- Lakes and water reservoirs level monitoring with GEDI (NASA mission) laser-altimeter long time series

His teaching activity includes/d the following courses:
- Positioning - BSc in Environmental Engineering - since AY 1997-98
- Geomatics - MSc in Environmental Engineering - AY 2002-2003 - 2020-2021
- Geomatics and Intelligent Transportation Systems - MSc in Transport Systems Engineering (in English) - AY 2014-2015, 2015-2016
- Geomatics and Geoinformation - MSc in Data Science (in English) - since AY 2019-2020
- Geomatics and Geoinformation - MSc Sapienza School for Advanced Studies - AY 2020-2021
- Remote Sensing and Geo Big Data - MSc in Environmental Engineering (in English) - since AY 2021-2022

- Hunting tsunamis and earthquakes with GNSS – MSc Sapienza School for Advanced Studies - AY 2023-2024

- Remote Sensing, Geography and Land Planning - MSc in Geography and Land Planning (University of Milan) - AY 2023-2024

He has been active in third mission activities:

- he is co-inventor of two patents, supported by the Sapienza University of Rome, in the frame of GNSS positioning (VADASE, 2010) and optical and SAR satellite imagery processing (matching strategy, 2013)

- VADASE was licensed to Leica Geosystems AG and it has been implemented in the firmware of GR GNSS receivers since 2015

- he was co-founder and scientific advisor of Kuaternion, start-up of Sapienza; Kuaternion was recipient of two national awards (Research Stock Market Awards 2018 from IBM Italia and Leonardo).

He has been active as supervisor at different levels:

- 20+ PostDocs projects
- 30+ PhD candidates

- 70+ MSc degree theses
- 110+ Dipl, BSc degree theses

Curriculum in formato Europass