He is serving for Sapienza as 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 130 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 President of the Inter-Commission Committee on Theory of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) (since 2023), 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).