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Surname(s) / First name(s)
Branzanti Mara
Occupation and Position
held
01/11/2011 - 01/11/2014
PhD Student at Geodesy and Geomatics division, Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering, “Sapienza” University of Rome. PhD duration: 3 years, Final Defense: March
2015
Research
GNSS Navigation
Development and experimentation of Kinematic-VADASE to extend the application of
the variometric approach to the navigation field
Fast displacements detection
GNSS data processing with an innovative approach (VADASE) to retrieve accurate
short and rapid displacements (of earth or structures), in real-time and using a unique
geodetic or low-cost GNSS receiver
Software Defined Receiver
Development of new blocks for Galileo civil signals to improve the existing features of
GNSS-SDR software receiver, collaboration with CTTC (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya)
Landslides monitoring
Landslides monitoring in alpine sites with GPS receivers, collaboration with EURAC
(European Academy of Bozen/Bolzano) within SloMove project
GNSS permanent networks
monitoring
Member of the fifth research’s unit of PRIN 2008 “RDN, the new Italian Geodetic
Reference System: continuous monitoring and applications towards country’s administration“
Awards and
Acknowledgements
May 2014
April 2014
March 2014
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Selected student in Google Summer of Code 2014
ESA fix certification: VADASE research team awarded within the first 50 companies/institutions having made a fix with Galileo satellites
WIA-E student Award (Women In Aerospace - Europe)
September 2013
Invited to participate to Italiax10. Future Science, a special event co-promoted by
Telecom Italia, which gives to 10 young Italian researchers the opportunity to present
their projects. The event is organized in the context of TriesteNext. European science
research forum
July 2013
Invited by European Commision to partecipate to the event Galileo: from promises
to reality, Galileo Control Centre, Fucino (Italy), after a recognition for the project
submitted to the Google Summer of Code 2013
May - September 2013
Selected student in the Google Summer of Code 2013 international program to collaborate with CTTC (Centro Tecnológico Telecomunicaciones Cataluña). Project title:
Development of new blocks for Galileo E1 in GNSS-SDR: from telemetry to PVT solutions
August 2013
Grant for a research project (Avvio alla ricerca), awarded by Sapienza University of
Rome. Title project: GNSS control systems for real-time navigation: Kin-VADASE to
combine classical and variometric approach
June 2013
Antonio Ventura prize awarded by Sapienza University of Rome for M.Sc Thesis
Grants
July 2014
Travel grant to attend Google Summer of Code Reunion (San Jose, California) on
October 2014 as delegate of GNSS-SDR organization. Grant offered by Google
April 2014
Travel grant to attend ENC-GNSS 2014, Rotterdam-Netherlands, offered by the GENIUS project (funded by the EC/EUROPEAN GNSS AGENCY-GSA under the FP7)
July 2013
Travel grant to attend the GNSS Gfg2 Second Summer School (GFZ, German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany).
Project title: VADASE: Variometric Approach for Displacements Analysis Standalone
Engine. The third way in GNSS Seismology
December 2013
Travel grant to attend the GNSS PhD Summit 2013, Germany, offered by the GENIUS
project (funded by the EC/EUROPEAN GNSS AGENCY-GSA under the FP7)
Research and studying
experiences abroad
December 2013
GNSS PhD Summit 2013, Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen, Neubiberg, Germany
November 2013
NCKU – SAPIENZA Joint Symposium on GNSS Positioning, National Cheng Kung
University, Taiwan
June-September 2012
Study period at CATEC (Centro Avanzado de Tecnologia Aerospaciales, Seville) for
VADASE assessment and development using Spirent GNSS data simulator
July 2013
GNSS Gfg2 Second Summer School at GFZ (German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany)
February - October 2009
Erasmus student at Universidad de Las Palmas De Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria,
Spain
August 2005
English Summer School, Nicosia, Cyprus
August 2003
English Summer School, Oxford, United Kingdom
August 2003
English Summer School, Reading, United Kingdom
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Oral Presentations
May 2014
May 2014
April 2014
April 2014
H. K. Hung, R. J. Rau, G. Colosimo, E. Benedetti, M. Branzanti, M. Crespi, A. Mazzoni (2014) High-rate GPS seismology for the 2013 ML 6.4 Wanrung, Taiwan earthquake, EGU 2014, Wien
H. K. Hung, R. J. Rau, G. Colosimo, E. Benedetti, M. Branzanti, M. Crespi, A. Mazzoni VADASE: a new approach for real-time fast displacement detection-First application to Taiwan High-Rate GNSS Network, EGU 2014, Wien
M. Branzanti, E. Benedetti, G. Colosimo, A. Mazzoni, M. Crespi (2014). Real-time
monitoring of fast displacements with VADASE: new applications and challenges with
Galileo, ENC-GNSS 2014 , Rotterdam
Benedetti E., M. Branzanti, G. Colosimo, A. Mazzoni, M. Crespi (2014). Integration
of low-cost GPS receivers and MEMS accelerometers: experiments and potentiality
of a new approach for real-time structural monitoring. ENC-GNSS, Rotterdam
International reviewer
activity
June 2014
February 2014
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
Israel Science Foundation (ISF)
Education and
Qualification
29/03/2011
M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering cum laude, Sapienza” University of Rome
Thesis: High rate GPS data processing: a new challenge for earthquakes and infrastructures real time monitoring
10/12/2008
B. in Environmental Engineering, Sapienza” University of Rome
Thesis: Indagini sismiche in pozzo per la caratterizzazione di suoli ai fini di uno studio
di microzonazione sismica: il caso di studio di Monte San Giovanni Campano(FR)
2005
Lyceum scientific diploma 100/100, Rome
Informatic skills and
GNSS Receivers
Operating systems: Windows, UNIX/Linux
Programming languages: C/C++, Matlab, GMT, Latex
GNSS Software: Track (Kinematic module of GAMIT), LGO (Leica Geo Office), TeqC,
SimGEN (software for the Spirent GNSS Simulator
GNSS Receivers: Ublox EVK, NVS NV08C, Leica GR10, Leiva Viva, Septentrio PolaRx3eG PRO
Certifications:
- GIS in Autocad Map (Unico Consulting, May-July 2011)
- Scientific computing in C (CASPUR, January 2012)
- Scientific computing in Matlab (CASPUR, May 2011)
- Productivity in Unix/Linux environment (CASPUR, January 2011)
- ECDL (European Computer Driving License)
Personal skills and
competences
Mother tongue
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Italian
Self-assessment
Understanding
European level (*)
Speaking
Writing
Spoken
interaction
Spoken
production
B2 Independent
user
B2 Independent
user
C1
Proficient
user
Proficient
C1 Proficient
B1 Independent
user
user
user
(*)
Common European Framework of Reference (CEF) level
B1 Independent
user
C2
Proficient
user
Listening
Inglese
C2
Spagnolo
C1
Reading
Proficient
user
C2
Proficient
user
Teaching
November 2011 - today
- Tutor of 4 bachelor and 3 master theses related to my research interests
- Collaboration in the Positioning course, Prof. M. Crespi, for B. in Environmental
Engineering at “Sapienza” University of Rome
- Collaboration in Geomatics course, Prof. M. Crespi, for M.Sc. in Environmental
Engineering at “Sapienza” University of Rome
Attendance at workshop
April 2013
GNSS technologies advances in a multiconstellation framework, Sogei Center, Rome,
Italy
May 2013
First GAL Wokshop: Aerogravimetry versus direct photogrammetry, Como, Italy
Bibliometrics
Indexed
Scopus: [6] [7] [8]
Scientific Papers
1
1
J. Arribas, M. Branzanti, C. Fernandez-Prades, P. Closas (2014).Fastening GPS and Galileo Tight with a Software
Receiver, ION 2014 Proceedings, Tampa, Florida
2 M. Branzanti (2014).GNSS-SDR: un ricevitore software completamente open-source pronto per GALILEO , Geomedia
Magazine, Volume 1 - 2014
3 M. Branzanti, E. Benedetti, G. Colosimo, A. Mazzoni, M. Crespi (2014). Real-time monitoring of fast displacements
with VADASE: new applications and challenges with Galileo, ENC-GNSS 2014 Proceedings, Rotterdam
4 Benedetti E., M. Branzanti, G. Colosimo, A. Mazzoni, M. Crespi (2014). Integration of low-cost GPS receivers and
MEMS accelerometers: experiments and potentiality of a new approach for real-time structural monitoring. ENCGNSS 2014 Proceedings, Rotterdam
5 2 Benedetti E, Branzanti M, Colosimo G, Mazzoni A, Crespi M (2013). VADASE: state of the art and new developments
of a third way to GNSS Seismology, International Association of Geodesy Symposia Series - VIII Hotine-Marussi
Symposium on Mathematical Geodesy Ma. No. IAGS-D-13-00053R1
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3
Benedetti E, Branzanti M, Biagi L, Colosimo G, Mazzoni A, Crespi M (2013). GNSS seismology for the 2012 Mw =
6.1 Emilia Earthquake: exploiting the VADASE algorithm , Seismological Research Letters SRL-D-13-00094R3
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4
Branzanti M, Colosimo G, Crespi M, Mazzoni A (2012) GPS near real-time coseismic displacements for the great
Tohoku-Oki earthquake, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, Volume 10, Issue 2, Pages 372-376,
ISSN: 1545-598X doy: 10.1109/LGRS.2012.2207704 - Catalog U-GOV Sapienza ID 471268
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Benedetti E., Branzanti M, Corsini A., Giannico C., Iasio C., Mair V., Mulas M., Novali F., Tamburini A. (2012). Cosmo
skymed high frequency - high resolution monitoring of an alpine slow landslide, corvara in badia, northern Italy.
In: Proceedings IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium “Remote sensing for a Dynamic
Earth", 2012 IGARRS
1 Indexed
in ISI and/or SCOPUS
in ISI and/or SCOPUS
3 Indexed in ISI and/or SCOPUS
4 Indexed in ISI and/or SCOPUS
5 Indexed in ISI and/or SCOPUS
2 Indexed
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9 Branzanti M, Colosimo G, Crespi M, Mazzoni A, Dautermann T (2011) Una strategia semplice per la GPS Seismology
e i sistemi di early warning per gli tsunami denominata VADASE, Geomedia Magazine, May 2011,Volume 1, ISSN
1128-8132
Autorizzo il trattamento dei miei dati personali ai sensi del Decreto Legislativo 30 giugno 2003, n. 196 "Codice in materia di
protezione dei dati personali
Roma, December 20, 2014
Firma
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