Phd in INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT)

email: roberto.seu@uniroma1.it
phone: 0644585469, 3775047830

Roberto Seu was born in Carbonia (Cagliari), on February 18th 1959. He has got the doctoral degree in Electronics Engineering in March 1985 at the “'Universita' degli Studi "La Sapienza" of Rome”, and the PhD at the same University in October 1990.
Since 1992 he is assistant professor and he is lecturer of the course of “Radar systems for space applications” and “Systems for air traffic control”.
Since the doctoral degree he has been always working on radar systems and mainly on radars for planetary observations. He has been working on the feasibility studies of radar payloads of the ESA missions Rosetta/CNSR (Comet Nucleus Sample Return), MORO (Moon ORbiting Observatory) ed INTERMARSNET.
Roberto Seu is, since 1993, member of the Cassini Radar Science Team, co-investigator of the experiment CONSERT, payload of the ESA mission Rosetta and of the experiment MARSIS, radar sounder on board the ESA mission Mars Express.
Since 2001 he is Team Leader of the experiment SHARAD, a radar sounder payload of the NASA mission Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Roberto Seu is referee of Planetary and Space Science, of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic System and of the scientific journal Icarus and he has been member of the scientific committee of the Radar Conference 2008, held in Rome on May 2008.
Roberto Seu has received the “Certificate of appreciation” from the JPL/MRO Project and the ”AWARD” from NASA Headquarters for the results achieved by the SHARAD Team in the design and development phase of SHARAD. Last July 2008 he has received from the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society the “2008 Interactive Session Prize Paper Award” for the paper “SHARAD design and operation” presented at the IGARSS 2007 Conference.

LIST OF MOST SIGNIFICANT RECENT CO-AUTHORED PAPERS
1. Nathaniel E. Putzig, Isaac B. Smith, Matthew R. Perry, Frederick J. Foss II, Bruce A. Campbell, Roger J. Phillips, and Roberto Seu, Three-dimensional radar imaging of structures and craters in the Martian polar caps, ICARUS, DOI 10.1016/j.icarus.2017.09.023
2. M. Mastrogiuseppe, A.G. Hayes, V. Poggiali, J.I. Lunine, R.D. Lorenz, R. Seu, A. Le Gall, C. Notarnicola, K.L. Mitchell, M. Malaska, S.P.D. Birch, Bathymetry and composition of Titan’s Ontario Lacus derived from Monte Carlo-based waveform inversion of Cassini RADAR altimetry data, ICARUS 300 (2018), 203-209, DOI 10.1016/j.icarus2017.09.009
3. Marco Mastrogiuseppe, A. Hayes, V. Poggiali, R. Seu, Jonathan I. Lunine, and J. D. Hofgartner, Radar Sounding Using the Cassini Altimeter: Waveform Modeling and Monte Carlo Approach for Data Inversion of Observations of Titan’s Seas, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING, VOL. 54, NO. 10, OCTOBER 2016
4. V. Poggiali1, M. Mastrogiuseppe2, A. G. Hayes2, R. Seu1, S. P. D. Birch2, R. Lorenz4, C. Grima3, and J. D. Hofgartner2, Liquid-filled canyons on Titan, Geophys.Res. Lett., 43, 7887–7894, doi:10.1002/2016GL069679.
5. Restano, M., J. J. Plaut, B. A. Campbell, Y. Gim, D. Nunes, F. Bernardini, A. Egan, R. Seu, and R. J. Phillips (2015), Effects of the passage of Comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) observed by the Shallow Radar (SHARAD) on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, doi:10.1002/2015GL064150.
6. R. Oroseia, , , R.L. Jordanb, D.D. Morganc, M. Cartaccid, A. Cicchettid, F. Duruc, D.A. Gurnettc, E. Heggyb, D.L. Kirchnerc, R. Noschesed, W. Kofmane, f, A. Masdeag, J.J. Plautb, R. Seug, T.R. Wattersh, G. Picardi,g(2014). Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding (MARSIS) after nine years of operation: A summary. Planetary and Space Science, 112(2015)98–114, DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2014.07.010
7. M. Mastrogiuseppe a,⇑, V. Poggiali a, R. Seu a, R. Martufi a, C. Notarnicola (2014). Titan dune heights retrieval by using Cassini Radar Altimeter. Icarus 230 (2014) 191–197, doi 10.1016/j.icarus.2013.09.028
8. Marco Mastrogiuseppe1, Valerio Poggiali1, Alexander Hayes2, Ralph Lorenz3, Jonathan Lunine2, Giovanni Picardi1, Roberto Seu1, Enrico Flamini4, Giuseppe Mitri5, Claudia Notarnicola6, Philippe Paillou7 and Howard Zebker, (2014). The bathymetry of a Titan sea. Geophys. Res.Lett., 41, doi:10.1002/2013GL058618.
9. Restano, M., Picardi, G., Seu, R. (2014). ID-FDTD Characterization of Ionosphere Influence on Ground Penetrating Radar Data Inversion. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 62, NO 4, April 2014, doi 10.1109/TAP.2014.2299825
10. Grima, C., W. Kofman, A. Herique, R. Orosei, R. Seu (2012). Quantitative analysis of Mars surface radar reflectivity at 20 MHz. ICARUS, ISSN: 0019-1035, doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2012.04.017
11. Seu R et al. (2011). Massive CO2 ice deposits sequestered in the south polar layered deposits of Mars. SCIENCE, ISSN: 0036-8075
12. SEU R, CROCI R. FLAMINI E, RUSSO E (2011). The SHAllow RADar (SHARAD) on board the NASA MRO mission. PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE, vol. 99, p. 794-807, ISSN: 0018-9219
13. SEU R. et al. (2010). Correlations between VIMS and RADAR data over the surface of Titan:Implications for Titan’s surface properties, Icarus 208 (2010) 366–384
14. R.Seu et al. “Dielectric properties of lava flows west of Ascraeus Mons, Mars”, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 36, LXXXXX, doi:10.1029/2009GL041234, 2009
15. R.Seu, et al., Shallow Radar (SHARAD) Sounding Observations of the Medusae Fossae Formation, Mars, Icarus, 199 (2009), 295-302.
16. R. Seu., et al., SHARAD radar sounding of the Vastitas Borealis Formation in Amazonis Planitia, J. Geophys. Res., VOL. 113, E12010, doi:10.1029/2008JE003177, 2008.
17. R. Seu, et al., Radar sounding evidence for buried glaciers in the southern mid-latitudes of Mars, Science, 322, 1235-1238, 2008.
18. R. Seu, et al., Mars North Polar Deposits: Stratigraphy, age, and geodynamical response, Science, 320, 1182-1185, 2008. Published online 15 May 2008; doi:10.1126/ science.1157546.
19. R. Seu et al. “Titan'S Diverse Landscapes As Evidenced By Cassini Radar'S Third and Fourth Looks At Titan”, Received 28 August 2006; revised 20 November 2007; accepted 1 December 2007. Available online 17 January 2008, Icarus.
20. R. Seu et al. “Accumulation and Erosion of Mars' South Polar Layered Deposits”, Science 317, 1715 (2007).
21. R. Seu et al. "Cryovolcanic features on Titan's surface as revealed by the Cassini Titan Radar Mapper"; Icarus; Feb 2007; Volume 186 Issue 2.
22. R. Seu et al. "Mapping of Titan: Results from the first Titan radar passes"; Icarus; Dec 2006; Volume 185 Issue 2.
23. R. Seu et al. "Titan radar mapper observations from cassini's T-3 fly-by"; Nature; Aug 2006; Volume 442 Issue 7102.

Dr Roberto Seu
Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecomunications (DIET)
Sapienza University of Rome
Via Eudossiana,18 – 00184 – Rome – Italy