Alessandro Sebastianelli

Alessandro Sebastianelli

Researcher at CMCC | QC4EO WG lead IEEE GRSS QUEST | Topical Associate Editor IEEE TGRS

About me

Alessandro Sebastianelli received the Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees (the latter cum laude) in Electronic Engineering for Automation and Telecommunications from the University of Sannio in 2017 and 2019, respectively. During his Master’s, he carried out his internship at the European Space Agency (ESA) Φ-lab as a Visiting Researcher. Shortly before completing his Master’s, he also gained industry experience as an Earth Observation Engineer at Titan4, focusing on structural monitoring based on SAR and optical satellite data. He received an IEEE award for one of the best Master’s theses in geoscience and remote sensing. He then obtained the Ph.D. degree in Information Technologies for Engineering in 2022, during which he was awarded ESA co-funding through the competitive OSIP program to carry out research on AI-driven domain translation and data fusion for Earth observation applications. Concurrently, he began his collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) Φ-lab as a visiting researcher, later transitioning to a Research Fellow position, for a total of six years until 09/2025. During this period, he served as Technical Officer for several research and industrial initiatives, including activities on quantum computing, artificial intelligence and Earth observation, and blockchain for Earth observation, while also leading the internal research line on quantum computing for Earth observation. Throughout his academic and research career, he has supervised more than 30 students and doctoral candidates. He has coauthored a book and around 67 publications in reputed journals and international conferences, with an H-index of 16 and more than 1130 citations, and has managed and chaired sessions at leading workshops and international conferences. He leads the QC4EO working group within the QUEST IEEE GRSS Technical Committee and serves as Topical Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS). His expertise covers remote sensing and satellite data analysis, artificial intelligence for Earth observation, and quantum computing. In 09/2025, he joined the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) as a Junior Scientist in the REMHI Division, where he applies his expertise to climate research.

In his spare time he enjoys photography instagram page/photographer portfolio.

Download his full Curriculum Vitae here.

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Self-developed python libraries

  • hqm - hybrid quantum models integration for torch and keras
  • opensv - open satellite vision, containing functions to work with EO data
  • bplot - quick way to plot and show data
  • LaTeX utils - creating LaTeX code automatically from python