Mirco Piras is Associate Professor in Geomatics at Politecnico di Torino. Civil Engineer and Ph.D in Geodesy and Geomatics, his main research interest is on positioning, UAV and GIS model, and platform. He is also Secretary of the Italian Society of photogrammetry and Topography, and he is member of several scientific societies as ISPRS, GFOSS,IAEG. He lectures in several courses and he is author of more than 110 national and international publications. He is member of the management board of the Research center of service robotics called PIC4SER.

In the 2^nd level Specializing Master's programme in Climate Change: adaptation and mitigation solutions he will lecture Earth Observation and Climate Monitoring in the Preliminay Courses.