Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Damien Serant is currently working in the navigation department of Thales Alenia Space–France as a GNSS signal processing engineer.
He is also finishing its Ph.D thesis on positioning with OFDM signals, undertaken in the signal processing lab of the French Civil Aviation University (ENAC) and co-funded by the French Space Agency, CNES, and by Thales Alenia Space.
Serant graduated as an electronics engineer from the ENAC, in Toulouse, France.
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Dominic Hayes manages Galileo’s radio regulatory issues at the European Commission and led the EC team at WRC-07 that pushed to put S-band RDSS on the agenda for WRC-12; to further this work he is now the CEPT coordinator for this issue.
A Chartered Engineer, he cut his regulatory teeth at the UK’s Radiocommunications Agency, then Ofcom, and has a Spacecraft Technology MSc from University College London, and a BEng from Southbank University London.
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Jean-Yves Guyomard is working in ANFR which is the French frequency management body.
He is the chairman of SE40, the group from the European Conference of Posts and Telecommunications (CEPT) responsible for technical studies related to satellite issues, in particular those related to the European preparation of WRC-12 Agenda Item 1.18 on a possible worldwide frequency allocation to RDSS in S-band.
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Sylvain Germaine graduated as a microwave electronic engineer from ENSTBr in 2005.
He joined ANFR in 2006, the French national spectrum agency, as a spectrum engineer to work on international frequency management, in particular in the satellite field.
He is the French coordinator for WRC-12 Agenda Item 1.18, on the possibility to make a global primary allocation to the radiodetermination-satellite service (space-to-Earth) in the band 2 483.5-2 500 MHz.
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Paul Thevenon is a GNSS engineer in the GNSS signal processing team of CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales), the French space research center.
He graduated as electronic engineer from Ecole Centrale de Lille and obtained a research master at ISAE (Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace) in space telecommunications.
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Paolo Mulassano received the Master Degree in Electronics Engineering (Summa Cum Laude) at Politecnico di Torino in December 1998, and a Ph.D. in Communications Engineering from the same University in December 2003.
From January 1999 to December 2000 he worked as researcher under grant in the Signal Analysis and Simulation Group (Politecnico di Torino, Electronics Eng. Department) with specific responsibilities on R&D programs related to satellite communications.
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Mario Caporale is with the Italian Space Agency (ASI), serving as head of satellite navigation.
He represents ASI on matters pertaining to Galileo nationally and internationally.
Caporale is a delegate to the European Space Agency‘s Program Board on Satellite Navigation, and delegate to the GNSS Committee, and a member of the Galileo Signal Task Force. He is also a member of the EU/USA National Security Compatibility Compliance Group and the European Radio Navigation Plan Group.
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Bob Snow is an associate technical fellow/flight test engineer at the Boeing Company.
He has been involved in flight testing for 34 years and in GPS research for 20 years with experience in various aspects of GPS, GBAS, and SBAS.
Snow received his B.S. in aeronautical engineering from the University of Washington.
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Janet Booth is a systems architect for the Flight Test Data System Technology group with the Boeing Company.
She is responsible for the design, development, and validation of GPS systems employed for flight testing commercial airplanes.
Booth has been involved in GPS research for 14 years with experience in various aspects of GPS, ground-based augmentation systems (GBAS), and SBAS. She received her M.A. in applied mathematics from Indiana University.
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Danai Skournetou received a B.Sc. degree in informatics and telecommunication from Athens National and Kapodistrian University, Greece, and the M.Sc. degree in information technology from Tampere University of Technology in 2007.
Currently, she is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Communications Engineering in Tampere University of Technology, Finland. In addition, she is pursuing an M.Sc. degree in economics and business administration from Jyväskylä University, Finland.
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Elena Simona Lohan received an M.Sc. degree in Electrical engineering from Polytechnics University of Bucharest, Romania, in 1997, a D.E.A. degree (French equivalent of master) in Econometrics, at Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, in 1998, and a Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications from Tampere University of Technology (TUT), in 2003.
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Simone Savasta is a researcher under grant at Politecnico di Torino.
His research interests covers the fields of navigation, interference mitigation, and integration of navigation systems.
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Marco Rao, Ph.D., is a grantholder at the European Commission (EC) Joint Research Centre (JRC).
His research interests are in GNSS receiver design, Kalman filtering, and tracking.
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