EAB Members: Dr. Giovanni Sembenini

Giovanni Sembenini is Deputy Director of the NATO Science and Technology OrganisationCentre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (STO CMRE, www.cmre.nato.int).

He holds a PhD in Aerospace Engineering and master‘s degrees in aeronautical engineering and in space engineering from the Politecnicoof Torino (Italy). Additionally, he received a master’s degree in electronics engineering of complex systems from the University of Rome 3. He is also a graduate of the NATO Accreditation Program for Managers and of the Army Staff Officer School. 

In his professional career, he has served as a member of  the Advisory Board of the Aerospace Testing Seminar, of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Von Karman Institute, and as the NATO STO Systems Concepts Integationpanel Italian Principal Member. He has chaired and has been a member of the program committees of several Research Task Groups, symposia and workshops of the NATO STO. He has been a member of several review boards for research projects at national, international and EU levels as well as an ethical evaluator for EU research projects and member of the steering board of various EU projects.

With his extensive research and academic experience, Dr. Sembenini has been an active reviewer for the IEEE Systems Journal. He has authored more than 30 research papers and articles in scientific journals and technical magazines. As a lecturer, he has toughtgraduate-level courses on Space Systems Engineering and Logistics (Politecnicodi Torino) and on Climate Security (BiocampusUniversity, Rome), to give a few examples.