Barbara Betti  

Barbara Betti was born in Milan in 1954. She graduated with honours in Physics in 1979 and obtained a PhD in Geodetic and Topographic Sciences, in 1987. She went on to become a researcher at the Faculty of Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano in 1990 and then, in 1992, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of L'Aquila. Later, in 1997, she secured the post of Full Professor of the Topography and Cartography group at the Politecnico di Milano. In 1992, she was appointed the Italian delegate to the General Assembly of the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. In 1994, she organised the III Hotine Marussi Symposium on Mathematical Geodesy, and in 1996 she joined the Special Study Group 1.157 of the International Association of Geodesy. 

In 2000, Barbara Betti held the role of national coordinator of the Scientific Project ASI: “Working Group on Measurements and Methods of High Precision Space Geodesy”. She also worked on behalf of the Politecnico di Milano as Scientific Director for numerous research programmes, including: in 1998, “Scanning laser surveys, integrated with GPS, for the production of numerical models for 3D mapping and digital orthophotos”; in 1999, “Permanent stations integrated with GPS networks and digital cartography: from precision positioning to individual navigation”; in 2003, ‘Innovative technologies for the prediction, control and mitigation of the impact of environmental emergencies”; and in 2005, “Networks of permanent GPS stations for real-time surveying in control and emergency applications”. 

During her career at the Politecnico di Milano, Barbara Betti was a member of the university's policy and governing bodies and held several important institutional positions: in 1999 as Head of the Surveying section of the Department of Hydraulic, Environmental and Land Engineering and Secretary of the Environmental and Land Engineering Course, both at the Politecnico di Milano; from 2005 to 2013 as Chair of the Environmental and Land Engineering Degree Programme at the Politecnico di Milano; and from 2013 to 2018 as Dean of the School of Civil, Environmental and Land Management Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano.

extract from the 2025 nomination statement