Carlo Maria Medaglia graduated in Physics at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1999. He received his PhD in Remote Sensing at the Department of Scientific and Technical Information and Communication of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 2004.

Since 1999 he has worked at numerous national and international research centers including: ISAC-CNR, NASA, ESA, NOA NOAA.

Carlo Maria Medaglia was the founder and coordinator of the scientific laboratories of CATTID – Sapienza University of Rome, which had as its workforce, more than 70 researchers contemporarily active.

He is currently Vice-Rector for Research, Director of the Department of Research at Link Campus University and Scientific Director of the research center Dasic and of LINKIT at the Link Campus University which have as its workforce, more than 100 researchers and professors who focus their attention on four areas of research: Smart Government & eInclusion, Smart Cities and Communities, Education & Hybrid Learning and Interaction Design.

He has more than 200 articles published in international journals and conference proceedings and his main areas of research are: RFID and the Internet of Things, Wireless and Mobile, Intelligent Transport Systems and Smart Cities and Communities.

Carlo Maria Medaglia is a principal investigator of more than 10 projects under the Framework Programme 2007-2013, and numerous projects at national and regional level.

Among the government assignments, Carlo Maria Medaglia is, beginning October 2014 the President and Chief Executive Officer of Roma Servizi per la Mobilità Srl and Head of the Technical Secretariat of the Minister Dr. Gianluca Galletti, Ministry of Environment, Land and Sea.