Michele Crosetto holds a civil engineering degree from the Politecnico di Torino (1993) and a doctorate in Topographic and Geodesic Sciences from the Politecnico di Milano (1998). He has formed part of the Institute of Geomatics since 2002. Since January 2014 he is with CTTC, Spain, where now he is head of the Geomatics Division. His main research activity is related to the analysis of spaceborne, airborne and ground-based remote sensing data and the development of scientific and technical applications using active sensor types. He is the coordinator of the Advisory Board of the European Ground Motion Service.