Position in Planetek group: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Planetek Italia and Planetek Hellas.

Other activities: Professor at Urban & Regional Plannning course, Venice University Institute of Architecture (IUAV). Chairman of SPEGEA, Business School, Chairman of AIPAS, the Italian Aerospace SMEs Association, Chairman of SME4SPACE, European Aerospace SMEs Association.

Education: Degree in Physics. He is specialized in “Sistemi di Posizionamento Preciso con Tecniche Spaziali”, and realizes a traineeship at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Harvard Md. USA. He has produced several publications in the field of analisys of signals and images and of space systems.

Languages: Italian (mother toungue); English (fluent); French (fluent).

Background: in 1984 has been recruited at the Earth Observation Division of the Piano Spaziale Nazionale of the Italian National Research Council ( after 1989 ASI,the Italian Space Agency) in charge of a major space geodesy project; he cooperated with NASA for the establishment of the long term NASA plan in Geodesy and Geophysics and for the launch of LAGEOS II satellite; from 1988 to 1995 has been recruited at the Italian Space Agency; from 1987 to 1995 is an Italian member at the European Space Agency (ESA) for cooperation in Earth Observation with major space Agencies; was director of the Center of Space Geodesy of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) the ASI facility for remote sensing, space geodesy and space robotics until 31/12/1995; from 1997 he is Professor at IUAV University of Venice and cooperates with Nettuno Institute for the University Everywhere.

BLOG: read articles and talk with Giovanni Sylos Labini http://blog.planetek.it/author/syloslabini/

Video on Youtube: Giovanni Sylos Labini presents Planetek Italia group (in italian)