Team

Livio Pinto is Full Professor of Topography and Cartography (ICAR/06) at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Politecnico di Milano, where he coordinates the Geodesy and Geomatics Section and serves as Head of the Lab2R Laboratory at the Piacenza campus. He holds an MSc in Civil Engineering and a PhD in Geodetic and Topographic Sciences. His research and teaching activities focus on photogrammetry, GNSS, mobile mapping systems, and UAV-based surveying. He is the author or co-author of more than 190 scientific publications, with significant international impact, and serves as Associate Editor of the journal Applied Geomatics. He has coordinated and supervised numerous PhD candidates as well as Bachelor’s and Master’s theses. His main research interests include direct sensor orientation, infrastructure and land monitoring, digital photogrammetry, and the application of low-cost technologies for surveying and 3D modeling.

Mirko Reguzzoni was born in 1974 in Como, Italy. He is an associate professor at DICA, Politecnico di Milano. He graduated in Computer Engineering and got a PhD in Geodesy and Geomatics. Since 2011 he has been teaching Photogrammetry and Drone Surveying. He also taught or is still teaching other M.Sc. and Ph.D. courses, such as Navigation Laboratory, Surveying in Earthquake Engineering, Geospatial Data Analysis and Monte Carlo Markov Chain Statistical Methods. From 2018 to 2023 he was visiting professor at Bonn University, Institute for Geodesy and Geoinformation, teaching the M.Sc. course of Collocation and Applications.
He mainly works on global modelling of the Earth gravity field, especially from satellite mission data. He was involved in the GOCE (Gravity field and Ocean Circulation Explorer) mission data processing and is now involved in the preparation of future gravity missions, also based on quantum technology. Other relevant research fields concern physical geodesy (estimation of local geoid models and inverse gravimetric problems) and GNSS/SAR deformation monitoring. He is a fellow of IAG (International Association of Geodesy) and, in the frame of this association, he is currently president of ISG (International Service for the Geoid) and associate editor of Journal of Geodesy.

Daniela Carrion is Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano, teacher of GIS and Geospatial data processing and mapping for crisis management. She holds a PhD in Geodesy and Geomatics. She acquired expertise on crisis mapping during a two year experience at the Joint Research Centre (Ispra, Italy) of the European Commission, where she performed technical and scientific validation of Emergency Services and Crisis Maps. She is director of the International Service of the Geoid, an official service of the International association of Geodesy. Her main research activities are: geospatial data processing for environmental applications, use of Volunteered Geographic Information for environmental applications and Crisis Mapping, database design and implementation, map readability, geoid computation, height datum problem and gravity field interaction with levelling measurements.

Carlo Iapige De Gaetani is Associate Professor for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. After the graduation as Civil Engineer, he earned a PhD in Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering with honors, where he established a research profile deeply rooted in Geodesy and Geomatics. He had experiences in the oil and gas industry as Research Geophysicist but then he directed to the academic career where he started with research activities and teachings in typical geomatics subjects like photogrammetry, positioning, surveying and spatial data processing. In addition, a distinctive element of his career is the connection and application of Building Information Modeling (BIM) methodology on which he is working since 2018. Confirming his commitment to these fields, current main activities are related to infrastructure survey and modelling for monitoring purposes, exploiting the double background in both Geomatics discipline and BIM.

Federica earned an MSc in Environmental and Land Planning Engineering, specialising in Geomatics, Surveying and GIS, from Politecnico di Milano in 2020. Her research focuses on designing and implementing open-source geospatial solutions for the efficient management of data in real-world scenarios. Applications include bridge inspections, cultural heritage valorisation and glacier monitoring, combining webGIS with 3D geodata visualisation and management in a web-based environment. She is passionate about open science culture and is an active member of the Italian and international FOSS4G and OpenStreetMap communities. She has been a member of OSGEO since 2022 and is one of the founders of PoliMappers, a group of volunteer students dedicated to humanitarian mapping and capacity-building initiatives. In her free time, she enjoys cinema, listening to Beyoncé, playing padel, and swimming in her beloved Lake Maggiore.

Roberto Monti was born on 11 April 1996 in Como, Italy. He holds a background in civil engineering, with research interests that have progressively shifted towards environmental and Earth observation applications. During his PhD, he developed a procedure aimed at automating and streamlining the state-of-the-art SNAP–StaMPS workflow for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image processing and the application of the Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PSI) technique. To support the interpretation of PSI products, he designed a MATLAB-based tool for the geospatial modelling of spatio-temporal displacement fields using multiple statistical techniques, enabling non-expert SAR users to effectively exploit these datasets. His work focuses on improving the accessibility, reliability, and applicability of satellite-based deformation monitoring for environmental and infrastructural analyses. Beyond his research activities, he is passionate about sports, from running to following Formula 1, and carried the torch for the Milano–Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics. He also has a strong interest in space exploration, which underpins his motivation to work with satellite data.

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