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Dr. Angelo Odetti, a Marine Engineer, researche at CNR-INM, specializes in designing innovative manned and unmanned vehicles for remote areas, including ACVs, ASVs, ROVs, and AUVs. With expertise in robotic systems, samplers, and tools, he has partecipated and led scientific campaigns in Antarctica and Svalbard, contributing to publications in international journals and conferences.

Dr. Nicola Colombo is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Turin (Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences), enrolled in the Italian Project PNRR-NODES (National Recovery and Resilience Plan - Digital and Sustainable North-Western Italy, Spoke 4 - Digital and Sustainable Mountain). He received his Ph.D. in Earth Sciences and Geography from the University of Turin and Carleton University in 2018 through a Binational Doctoral Programme. Following his graduate work, he trained as a postdoctoral fellow (2018-2022) both at the University of Turin and the Water Research Institute (Italian National Research Council, IRSA-CNR). Nicola is a geographer and earth scientist whose broad research interests examine the effects of climate change on the hydrological and chemical characteristics of surface waters in mountain areas under changing cryospheric conditions. 

Researcher at the Italian National Research Council. She received her Master’s Degree in Physics in 2008. After working at CERN as high energy physicist (2008-2010), in 2013 she joined the Institute of Marine Engineering in Genoa. Her activity dealt with the sensing capability of autonomous marine vehicles, focusing on data acquisition and analysis for the seabed characterization using automatic methods for the detection of Posidonia oceanica. During her Ph.D. (2017-2021) in cooperation with the Italian Navy Hydrographic Institute, she worked on the development of new approaches for the observation of transient phenomena in critical marine environments using autonomous marine vehicles for the data collection in different Arctic and Mediterranean field campaigns. Currently she is working on standardization of autonomous vehicles data acquisition for fair data management and open science.

Permanent Researcher at the National Research Council of Italy – Institute of Marine Engineering. Previously Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Soft Systems Group, University of Edinburgh, focussing on offshore robotic sensors. She holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture (University of Genoa, University of A Coruña, University of Trieste and Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research). She also holds a Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography from the National Oceanography Centre - University of Southampton. Her Ph.D. was sponsored by the Italian National Research Council - Institute of Marine Sciences, in Venice. She has spent more than 6 months at sea on oceanographic sampling campaigns, in the Mediterranean Sea, Pacific Ocean and the North Sea. Her research interests encompass: the application of robotics for observational oceanography and environmental monitoring. She is interested in the entire process of data collection, from the device design to the deployment setting and, ultimately, in the resulting data. Innovative sensors and autonomous platforms need a cross disciplinary approach in order to thrive. New, sustainable, smart platforms can push the boundaries of observational oceanography, coastal management, offshore sites functioning and much more. Ground breaking technology can result in a new generation of data that can give us the needed insight to embrace a sustainable development and mitigate climate change