Simona Zoffoli

Simona Zoffoli received the degree in physics from Università La Sapienza, Rome, Italy, in 1997, and the Ph.D. degree in geodesy and geomatics from the Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 2009. In 1998, she joined the Italian Space Agency (ASI), Rome, working in Earth observation programs. As a Program Manager, she has managed several science and application initiatives mainly focused on the use of Earth observation data to support disaster risk management activities and environmental monitoring. During her career, she has also been involved in the formulation studies of Earth observation missions and payloads. She was the ASI Program Manager for the LIMADOU—CSES-01 mission launched in 2018 and is currently the ASI Program Manager for the LIMADOU—CSES-02 mission and the SBG-TIR mission. Since 2011, she has been a Delegate of the ESA DOSTAG, and she is currently the Head of Earth Science Office under the ASI Earth Observation Unit. Dr. Zoffoli was the Vice Chair (2015 to 2017) and than the Chair (2017 to 2019) of the CEOS WG Disasters.