Education and training

• PhD in Environmental Sciences at University of “Ca’ Foscari”, Venezia, Italy. Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche, Fisiche e Naturali. Thesis Title: “Integration of grain-size data and environmental information in the Lagoon of Venice for the study of bottom habitats”. October 2004–January 2008
• Master in Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing at University IUAV, Venice, Department of Planning, 110/110. Principal subjects/occupational skills covered: Cartography, Database Management Systems, Remote Sensing, Geographical Information Systems. 2003–2004
• Degree in Environmental Sciences at University of “Ca’ Foscari”, Venezia, Italy. Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche, Fisiche e Naturali. Thesis Title: “Processing techniques for images from the Landsat-ETM and Ikonos satellites for the classification of wet areas in correlation with the assessment of wells and field irrigation (Venice region, Northern Italy (107/110). 1995–2002

Participation in research projects

• 2019–ongoing: ECOSS (ECOlogical observing System in the Adriatic Sea: oceanographic observations for biodiversity) (https://www.italy-croatia.eu/web/ecoss). European funded project, INTERREG Italy-Croatia
  • Leader of Work Package 5: “Design and implementation of data infrastructure”
• 2019–ongoing: PORTODIMARE (geoPORtal of TOols & Data for sustaInable Management of coAstal and maRine Environment). European funded project, ADRION Programme INTERREG V-B Transnational 2014-2020.
• 2018–ongoing: I-STORMS (Integrated Sea sTORm Management Strategies). ADRION Programme INTERREG V-B Transnational 2014-2020
• 2017–ongoing: BlueMed (http://www.bluemed-project.eu/) Coordination and support action, European funded project under H2020-BG-13-2016 programme, aiming at boosting Blue Growth in the Mediterranean by promoting the concrete and operational implementation of the BLUEMED Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA).
• 2017-2019: MEDCIS (Support Mediterranean Member States towards coherent and Coordinated Implementation of the second phase of the MSFD). European funded project, under the grant procedure DG ENV. C2/MSFD SECOND CYCLE/2016.
• 2017–2019: SIMWESTMED (Supporting Implementation of Maritime Spatial Planning in the Western Mediterranean region). European funded project under EASME/EMFF/2015/1.2.1.3.
• 2017–2019: SUPREME (SUpporting maritime spatial Planning in the Eastern Mediterranean). European funded project under EASME/EMFF/2015/1.2.1.3.
• 2016–2019: MUSES (Multi-Use in European Seas – https://muses-project.eu/). European funded project under H2020-BG-3-2016 programme, grant agreement n° 727451.
  • Participation in activities related to work packages “Sea basin overview” and “Case studies”.
• 2012–2018: RITMARE: la Ricerca Italiana per il MARE (http://www.ritmare.it/). Italian flagship project.
  • Participation in various activities inside the Sub Project 7 “Interoperable Infrastructure for the Observation Network and Marine Data”. Leader of the WP “Infrastructure requirements definition”.
  • Participation in the definition of the Data Policy of the project.
  • Participation in activities related to an Open Science approach to the definition of an Ecological Observatory in the North Adriatic (EcoNÀOS).
  • Participation in activities of the Observational System for the management of the Lagoon of Venice (SOLVE).
• 2015–2017: ActionMed (Action Plans for Integrated Regional Monitoring Programmes – http://actionmed.eu/), Coordinated Programmes of Measures and Addressing Data and Knowledge Gaps in Mediterranean Sea. (DG ENV/MSFD Action Plans /2014).
  • Participation in the activities of the Work Package “The information Management System for Knowledge and Data Update”.
• 2013–2015: ADRI-PLAN: ADRiatic Ionian maritime spatial PLANning (http://adriplan.eu/) (EU project MARE/2012/25).
  • Participation in various activities, Leader of the Work Package “Data and information management”.

Teaching activities

• 2017-2018 Gis for Maritime Spatial Planning, for the Master Erasmus Mundus on Maritime Spatial Planning, University IUAV of Venice.
• 2017 Gis for Maritime Spatial Planning, for the Master Erasmus Mundus on Maritime Spatial Planning, University IUAV of Venice.
• 2016 Gis for Maritime Spatial Planning, for the Master Erasmus Mundus on Maritime Spatial Planning, University IUAV of Venice.
• 2015 Gis for Maritime Spatial Planning, for the Master Erasmus Mundus on Maritime Spatial Planning, University IUAV of Venice.

Programme committee member at national and international conferences

• 2020 FOSS4G-IT – IV Convegno italiano su Software e Dati Geografici Free e Open Source. Member in the Scientific Committee
• 2020 OSC – Open Science Conference
• 2019 IRCDL – 15^th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries
• 2014 GFOSS Day – VII conferenza italiana sul software geografico e sui dati geografici liberi
• 2013 GFOSS Day – VI conferenza italiana sul software geografico e sui dati geografici liberi

Other

• Since 2007, Member of Italian Geographic Free and Open Source Software Association, GFOSS.it (www.gfoss.it)
• Since 2015, Member of the Italian Association for Open Science – AISA Associazione italiana per la promozione della scienza aperta (http://bfp.sp.unipi.it/aisa/about-aisa/)
• Since 2018, Member of Wikimedia Italia (https://wiki.wikimedia.it), Italian national chapter of Wikimedia Foundation.
• Fellow at the Institute of Open Leadership IOL#2 2016 (Open Policy Network https://openpolicynetwork.org/)
• Volunteered contributor to mapping activities through Openstreetmap.org and Mapillary.