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Fernando Sansò is a full professor at Politecnico di Milano, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (DICA).
He received his degree with honours in Physics from the University of Milan in 1967.

In 1969 he was assistant at the Institute of Topography of the Politecnico di Milano and then teacher of Surveying at the Faculty of Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano from 1976 to 1981. He was member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Society of Surveying and Photogrammetry and director of the Institute of Surveying, Photogrammetry and Geophysics of the Politecnico di Milano from 1982 to 1992. In 1989 he became member of the National Geophysical Council; in 1990 he was chair of the international project GEOMED, for the determination of the geoid in the Mediterranean Sea. In 1992 he established the International Geoid Service and became its President. In 1995 he was elected 1st Vice-President of the International Association of Geodesy and became Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano, in Como. In 2000 he became Editor of the Geophysical Journal International. He was organizer of a series of International Schools of Theoretical Geodesy, of International Schools for the geoid and of a series of International Symposia (Hotine-Marussi) on Theoretical Geodesy.

He has been President for about 10 years of the course of study in Civil and Environmental Engineering, and of the new International Master of Science in Environmental and Geomatic Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano at the Como Campus. He is Chairman of the Ph.D. in Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano, full professor of Geodesy and President of the International Geoid Service.

He received the Bomford Prize for Geodesy in 1979, the Feltrinelli Award for Astronomy, Geodesy, Geophysics and Applications in 1986, a Doctor Scientiarum h.c. degree in Geodetic Science at the University of Copenhagen in 2002, a Doctor Scientiarum h.c. degree in Geodesy at the University of Thessaloniki in 2008 and a Doctor Scientiarum h.c. in Geodesy at the University of Stuttgart in 2009. He is corresponding member of the Accademia dei Lincei from 1986, he was President of the International Association of Geodesy from 1999 to 2003, now Honorary IAG President, he is also fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (UK) from 2004 and from 2007 is full Member of the Accademia dei Lincei. Nominated by CNR as Italian delegate to the IAG (International Association of Geodesy) in 2011. In the year 2016 he is awarded the title of “Professor Emeritus” of Politecnico di Milano.

From 2008 he is Editor in Chief of the new Bulletin of Geodesy and Geomatics and Member of the Editorial Board of the Rendiconti Lincei: Scienze Fisiche e Naturali. He is author and co-author of about 350 works, articles and conference reports half of which at an international standard. He is also Editor of 4 books of Lecture Notes and several volumes of the Proceedings of IAG Symposia with Springer-Verlag.

Master degree with honours in Environmental Engineering in 2006 at the Politecnico di Milano, with a dissertation about the use of ENVISAT and QuikSCAT satellite data for the estimation of the sea-ice extension and thickness in the North-East of Greenland. This study was performed during her 6 months permanence at the Niels Bohr Institute (University of Copenhagen) in Copenhagen.

PhD with honours in Geomatics and Infrastructures at the Politecnico di Milano with a thesis titled “Error budget of future satellite missions to monitor gravity field time variations” (2011).

From April 2010 she worked at the Politecnico di Milano as temporary research assistant. During her permanence at the Politecnico di Milano both as PhD student and as research assistant, she worked as teacher assistant in different bachelor and master degree courses, such as Probability and Statistics, Topography, Photogrammetry, GPS Navigation.

From April to December 2011 she worked for Galileian Plus s.r.l. with a project based contract, mainly on GNSS topics, in particular navigation issues

Since February 2012 she has been working for GReD s.r.l.

Martina Capponi got her Master’s Degree in Environmental Engineering in 2014 and her Ph.D. in Transportation and Infrastructure at Università di Roma La Sapienza. Her Ph.D. thesis was titled “Very Improved KINematic Gravimetry: a new approach to aerogravimetry”.

From 2014 to early 2019, during her Ph.D. studies, she was also a research fellow at Politecnico di Milano, where her work was mainly focused on potential field methods and the development of processing software for geophysical exploration applications. Within this period she held exercise lectures and laboratories at Politecnico di Milano for courses of the Bachelor and Master Degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Topography, Cartography, Positioning and Location Based Serveces).

Since 2014 she attended various international and national conferences as a speaker and she is author and co-author of publications peer-reviewed at international level.

In GReD her principal research activities regard the development of software for processing and interpreting the Earth’s gravity field in the framework of oil&gas exploration applications.

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