Committees

GENERAL CHAIR
Giuliano Berretta (Eutelsat Honorary Chairman and ESOA Chairman Emeritus)

INTERNATIONAL STEERING COMMITTEE

Michele Anaclerio (Defense Ministry Counsellor for Military Health)
Josef Aschbacher (Head of GMES Space Office, ESA)
Gianluca Betello (SELEX-SVP)
Lucio Bianchi (Generale AMI, Direzione Armamenti Aeronautici e membro Consiglio Tecnico Scientifico ASI)
Giovanni Bodini (System MC Engineering – Telecom Italia Sparkle)
Maurice Borgeaud (ESA-ESRIN Head of Science Applications and Future Technologies)
Sabino Cacucci (SSI Marketing & Strategies)
Eugenio Candi (Eutelsat China Area Manager)
Gianfranco Cariolaro (University of Padova)
Massimo Cavaliere (CIRA – Head Business Opportunity Development)
Luigi Alberto Ciavoli Cortelli (ASAS Past President & Vice President)
Giovanni Corazza (University of Bologna)
Paolo Dalla Chiara (Pentastudio, Eutelsat Italia External Relations)
Mark E. Davis (IEEE AESS VP Conference)
Paolo De Vincenti (Eutelsat)
Enrico Del Re (CNIT President – University of Florence)
Carlo Des Dorides (Galileo Program – European Commission)
Gabriele Falciasecca (Fondazione Marconi)
Maurizio Fargnoli (ASAS President)
Renato Farina (Eutelsat – Italian Market Director)
Hector Fenech (Eutelsat – Head of Future Satellite Systems Group)
Pietro Finocchio (Isp. Capo Aus. AFCEA Capitolo di Roma President)
Rita Forsi (ISCOM Director General)
Giorgio Franceschetti (President of Italian Institute of Navigation – IIN)
Mario Frullone (FUB President)
Giovanni Garofalo (Telespazio)
Francesco Lacquaniti (Responsible of Space Biomedics Center)
Fiorella Lamberti (Selex Sistemi Integrati – External Relations – Head of Technical Communication)
Volker Liebig (ESA Earth Observation Programme Director and ESRIN Director)
Raimondo Lo Forti (Space Engineering Spa Vice President)
Pierluigi Mancini (Head of the Awareness & Feasibility Studies Division – Integrated & Telecom Application Department)
Andrea Marri (Past Alenia Space Manager and ASI Consultant)
Giuseppe Morsillo (Head of the Director General’s Policy Office of ESA)
Walter Munarini (General Director of Open-Sky)
Arduino Patacchini (Skylogic – Managing Director)
Sergio Pillon (Medical Director and Vice-president – CIRM)
Ramjee Prasad (CTIF Director)
Antonio Preto (European Commission for Mobility & Transport)
Marina Ruggieri (IEEE AESS President)
Antonio Salomè (ARES Director)
Gian Paolo Segala (Strategic Advisor EPR Comunicazione)
Judy Scharmann (IEEE AESS Executive Assistant)
Cosimo Stallo (IEEE AESS GOLD Chair)
Giovanni Sylos Labini (AIPAS President)
Leopoldo Verde (CIRA Italian Aerospace Research Center – General Director)
Giuseppe Viriglio (Telespazio)

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Technical Program Chair - Ramjee Prasad (CTIF Director)
Technical Program Vice-Chair - Marina Ruggieri (University of Tor Vergata)

Vidal Ashkenazi (Nottingham Scientific Limited)
Paolo Bellofiore (Telespazio)
Ezio Biglieri (Polytechnic of Turin)
Igor Bisio (University of Genoa)
Mariano Bizzarri (University of Rome La Sapienza, Scientific Board of ASI)
Giovanni Bodini (System MC Engineering Telecom Italia Sparkle)
Kai Borre (Aalborg University)
Sabino Cacucci (SSI Commercial Director)
Federica Cappelluti (Politechnic of Turin)
Francesco Cazzato (SSI)
Marco Chiani (University of Bologna)
Ernestina Cianca ( Tutorial Chair-University of Rome Tor Vergata)
Paolo Colantonio (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
Carlo Cornacchini (Space Engineering Spa)
Mauro De Sanctis (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
Michael Devetsikiotis (NC State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.)
Fabio Dovis (Politechnic of Turin)
Barry Evans (University of Surrey)
Paolo Gaudenzi (University of Rome La Sapienza)
Giovanni Giambene (University of Siena)
Alberto Ginesi (Head of the Communication-TT&C Systems & Techniques Section – ESA/ESTEC)
Angelantonio Gnazzo (Telecom Italia – Home Network and Wireline Devices)
Darko Huljenic(University of Zagreb)
Aravind Kailas(University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Robert J. Kerczewski (Background Associate Project Manager for Glenn Research Center)
Alexander Kocian (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
Stefano Lagrasta (Telespazio)
Ernesto Limiti (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
Pierpaolo Loreti (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
Marco Luise (University of Pisa)
Luca Marcaccioli (University of Perugia)
Gustavo Marfia (University of Bologna)
Albena Mihovska (Aalborg University)
Nada Milisavljevic(Royal Military Academy – Communication Information Systems & Sensors)
Daniele Mortari (Texas A&M University)
Beatrice Motella (Istituto Superiore Mario Boella)
Sandeep Mukherjee (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
Naohisa Ohta (Keio University)
Tomoaki Ohtsuki ( Keio University)
Claudio Passerone (Polytechnic of Turin)
Giorgio Perrotta (Spacesys srl)
Marco Petracca (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
Sofie Pollin (University of California Berkeley)
Petar Popovski (Aalborg University)
Oscar Pozzobon (QASCOM srl – Chief and Co-founder)
Neeli R. Prasad (Aalborg University)
Matteo Rinaldi (Northeastern University)
Tommaso Rossi (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
Claudio Sacchi (University of Trento)
Seii Sai (Toyota- InfoTechnology Center)
Antonio Saitto (Consorzio RadioLabs)
Antonio Salomè (ARES Director)
Pierangela Samarati (Universita` degli Studi di Milano)
Sandro Scalise (DLR (German Aerospace Center))
Judy Scharmann (IEEE AESS Executive Assistant)
Robert Schober (University British Columbia)
Hermann Schumacher (Universität Ulm. Institut für elektronische Bauelemente und Schaltungen, Ulm, Germany)
Gonzalo Seco Granados (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Karim Seddik (Alexandria University)
Nicolas Sklavos (Informatics & MM Department, Technological Educational Institute of Patras)
Susanna Spinsante (University of Marche)
Cosimo Stallo (University of Tor Vergata)
Oleg Stukach (University of Tomsk)
Andrea M. Tonello (University of Udine)
Daniela Valente (Publication Chair- University of Rome Tor Vergata)
Subbarayan Venkatesan (University of Texas)
Francesco Verde (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
Francesco Vespe (ASI-CGS)
Alberto Zanella (IEIIT-CNR)
Andrea Zanella (University of Padova)
Chao Zhang (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
Saman Aliari Zonouz (University of Miami)

ORGANIZING LOCAL COMMITTEE

Aarti Holla-Maini (ESOA General Secretary)
Aldo L’Imperio (Pentastudio – Eutelsat Italia, Counsellor)
Ilaria Pivato (Promospace Manager)
Emanuele Rizzo (ASA General Secretary)
Judy Scharmann (IEEE AESS Executive Assistant)
Cosimo Stallo (IEEE AESS GOLD Chair)
Alexander Kocian (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”)

PUBLICITY COMMITTEE

Fulvio Sansone ( ESOA Senior Advisor)
Ilaria Pivato (Promospace Manager)
Aldo L’Imperio (Pentastudio – Eutelsat Italia, counsellor)
Judy Scharmann (IEEE AESS Executive Assistant)

FINANCIAL COMMITTEE

Cosimo Stallo (Treasurer)