Michele Mercuri is a Researcher at the Italian National Research Council (CNR), Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection (IRPI) of Cosenza (Italy). He holds a degree in Geological Sciences from the University of Calabria. His research focuses on hydrogeological risk through a multidisciplinary approach integrating geology, geotechnics, remote sensing, geospatial data management, and the development of digital tools.
He began his professional career in 2013 in the geotechnical sector, gaining experience in laboratory testing on soils and rocks, in-situ testing, instrumental monitoring, and the management of data acquisition systems at a geotechnical laboratory.
Since 2017 he has been working at CNR–IRPI, where he has carried out laboratory activities on soils, rocks, and bituminous materials, conducted UAV-based photogrammetric surveys, and performed multitemporal analyses aimed at studying the morphological evolution of landslide phenomena, with results published and presented in several scientific contexts.
He is co-author of European databases dedicated to flood events and associated fatalities, released in open access and used as reference datasets by the international scientific community. Between 2021 and 2022 he conducted research activities at the CNR–ISAFoM institute, focusing on soil characterization, remote sensing, and multisource integration of agronomic and environmental data.
Since 2023 he has been involved in the Tech4You project, where he contributes to the development of multiscale databases, in-situ territorial laboratories, and digital tools for the assessment of hydrogeological hazard and risk. He is the author of plugins for QGIS, including Landslide Metrics, dedicated to the morphometric characterization of landslides, and MunicipAlert, designed for the spatio-temporal analysis of disaster event reports.
His activities include technical surveys using UAV and GNSS, photogrammetric and multispectral data processing, and the development of 3D models and digital terrain models, as well as the design and management of territorial databases and the development of digital tools for the analysis and visualization of geospatial information.
