FOSS4G 2023 academic track

Environmental Eng., PhD in Urban and Regional Development at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. Currently a consultant at the Joint Research Centre in Ispra, for Arcadia SIT.

Alessandro Sarretta is a researcher at the Italian National Research Council (CNR), since 2019 in the Research Institute for Geo-hydrological Protection, in Padua, previously at the Institute of Marine Sciences, in Venice. He deals, in marine/coastal and now geomorphological domains, with environmental data management and processing, Spatial Data Infrastructures, implementation of Decision Support Systems, standards and interoperability of research data. He is interested and involved in various fields of "openness", from open source software to open science, open knowledge and participatory mapping (OpenStreetMap).

Lecturer on Geoinformatics at Faculty ITC, University of Twente, The Netherlands.

Auriol Degbelo is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chair of Geoinformatics, TU Dresden. His research interests include semantic integration of geospatial information, re-use of open government data, and interaction with geographic information. Past contributions of his work include a theory of spatial and temporal resolution of sensor observations, semantic APIs for the retrieval of open government data, and a semi-automatic approach for the creation of thematic web maps.

Christina Ludwig is a PhD student at the GIScience Research Group at Heidelberg University and the HeiGIT gGmbH (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology), Germany. She is working in the context of OSM data quality analysis (e.g. urban green spaces mapping) and the development of specialized routing services (e.g. green routing, traffic speed modelling). She studied Environmental Science (B.Sc.) at the University of Freiburg, Germany and Applied Geoinformatics (M.Sc.) at the University of Trier, Germany.

Devika Kakkar is a Project Manager at CGA where she leads the area of Geospatial Data Science and Big Data. She has more than a decade of experience in Geoinformation Science and has been instrumental in building several high-impact geospatial solutions such as KNNP, TSGI, RINX. She is proficient in multiple programming languages, is an experienced user of Cloud Computing and is well-versed in various state-of-art Data Science technologies. Her interest areas include Geospatial Data Science, Big Data, High-Performance Computing and Machine Learning. Before joining CGA in 2017, she worked as a researcher with Fraunhofer IIS, German Research Foundation (DFG) and London School of Economics. She holds a master in Geodesy and Geoinformation Science from Technical University Berlin, Germany and a bachelors in Civil Engineering from HBTI, India.

Dimitri works at Earth Observation Laboratory of CNES, the French Space Agency.
His main research topics are DTM extraction and 3D change detection.

Dominik Weckmüller is a PhD-candidate at the Institute of Cartography at TU Dresden, Germany.
His primary research focuses on the use of geo-social media for municipal policy-making while safeguarding social media user privacy. He is committed to developing open-source tools that enable effective visualization of complex geospatial data.

Dustin Paul Sanchez is a Fulbright Fellow in the Geodesic Department of University of Pristina. Dustin is a retired United States Army Corporal where he served as a Geointelligence Analyst and Squad Leader. He received his B.A. in History from University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in 2014 where he studied border conflict and conflict histories and a M.S. in Environmental Science from West Texas A&M where he studied analytical soil chemistry. He is currently working towards his Ph.D. in Geography and Environmental Studies at Texas State University where he is studying the environmental consequences of conflict and the building of resilience to climate change in post-conflict societies.

PhD Candidate at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) whose main research interest is on GIS and photogrammetry-based solutions for road infrastructure monitoring and inspection. Co-founder and faculty advisor of PoliMappers, YouthMappers chapter based in the same university.

Federica Vacatello was born in Caserta (Naples, Italy), on 11 February 1991. Actually, she is Post-PhD Researcher in Post - Classical Archaeology at the Department of Antiquity Sciences, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome. She obtained his PhD in Post-classical Archaeology last May 2022, with a research of landscape archaeology in the alto-lazio coastal context. Currently, she is a component of the of Holy Sepulcher’s project like supervisor for the topographical documentation and the management of excavation activities.
In 2018 she graduated from the School of Specialisation in Archaeological Heritage at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" with a degree thesis on the topographical investigation surrounding the Leopoli - Cencelle site, with a grade of 70/70 cum laude. In that years she obtained a diploma and licence to drive remotely aircraft (drones), for the very light and light classes with ENAC (Italian Civil Aviation Authority) certification and authorisation. In fact, since 2016, her research interests have focused on Medieval Topography and Landscape Archaeology, with regard to methodologies’ and instrumentation's development and testing suitable for territorial surveys. In 2016 he graduated in Archaeology at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" with a thesis on the medieval funerary space of the city of Leopoli - Cencelle with vote 110/110 cum laude receiving the title of "Excellent Graduate" in Post-Classical Archaeology of the a.a. 2015/2016.
To support this activity, she won in 2016 the scholarship offered by the CISAM Foundation (Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo) on the occasion of the LXIV study week (31 March - 6 April 2016) entitled "Monachesimi d'Oriente e d'Occidente" at Spoleto. Finally, in March 2016 he was awarded the diploma of Instrumentum domesticum at the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology.
To aid research activities in 2018, she won two different projects like scientific manager: an Early Carrer Grant from the National Geographic Society for the development of "UAVIMALS", a small aerial scanner, and a Type I Research Initiation Project, funded by the Sapienza University entitled "A new technology for Archaeological data acquisition and topographic survey. The aerotopographic survey on the slopes of the medieval city of Leopolis Cencelle", aimed at testing a new methodology for the topographic documentation of different archaeological contexts, using drone, aerial photogrammetry and GIS software. Lastly, in 2021, it was awarded a second Type II Research Initiation Project entitled "Remote Sensing the Invisible. A new application of colorimetric and radiometric techniques for the aerial survey of the archaeological presence inside and outside the site", aimed at engineering an aerial camera useful for the colorimetric recognition of spectral signatures of any archaeological material at different scale levels. Since 2016 she joined the research project Grandi Scavi Sapienza "Leopoli - Cencelle" under the scientific management of Prof. Francesca Romana Stasolla.
The work, started in 2016, has been developed in the different fields of the archaeological profession, finding application in both university research and freelance work. The work carried out in both fields took the form of drafting preventive archaeology reports and providing archaeological assistance during the work, focusing on excavation operations, collecting finds, filing, photographic documentation and archiving data, with particular attention to survey activities, using a combination of drone and other geodetic instruments, with the consequent stratigraphic analysis of structures and different types of archaeological strata. The scientific research was focussed above all on the topographical study of various Roman and medieval contexts in Latium, Umbria, Marche and Emilia Romagna and on the archaeological and architectural survey of various structures such as the walls of the city of Perugia and the "Porto Clementino" of the ancient city of Corneto - Tarquinia (VT).

Gresa Neziri is an architect and urban planner focused on spatial data analysis.
She finished her MSc studies for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation at ITC, University of Twente, The Netherlands.
Gresa has worked for more than 7 years in spatial planning documents, consulting for municipalities in Kosovo, both through the private sector and UN agencies. She is the co-founder and Executive Director of SpaceSyntaKs, an institute for spatial and urban research. She has coordinated projects researching safety in public spaces, measures to mitigate climate change by lowering energy consumption, and walkability mapping in cities. Moreover, she organized various training courses on fieldwork data collection, data analysis and visualization using open GIS technology. Gresa continuously volunteers as a mentor for youth programs and hackathons in Europe and Africa.

Passionate geographer, open source advocate, citizen science enthusiast

Civil engineer and software developer (mainly C++). The last years I'm focused on GIS, contributing to GDAL and PROJ libraries.
Love old and nice maps.

https://github.com/jjimenezshaw/
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7227-9173

Jianqiao Liu is a PhD student in the Department of Geography at the University at Buffalo.
PhD student, Department of Geography, University at Buffalo.
Research interest: Remote sensing on lake and forestry, machine learning for image classification.

Data Scientist, working on Earth Science projects. I am part of the innovation team at Sixense Iberia, a company based in Barcelona that uses remote sensing data for monitoring motion and stability.

As a geospatial software engineer I have been involved in serveral EU research programmes such as the Copernicus Marine and Copernicus Climate Change services. This time presenting at FOSS4G the freshly added European Ground Motion service from the Copernicus Land programme.

I breathe GIS and open source!

PhD student at Université Bretagne Sud & School of Engineering and Management Vaud. Member of the Media Engineering Institute/Mediamaps and Lab-STICC team. Location-based augmented reality for biodiversity education.

2020 ~ present, Research Fellow, Seoul Institute of Technology
2006~2020, Associate Manager, Korea Land and Housing Corporation
2018, Staff secondment, Safer Cities Programme, United Nations Human Settlement Programme
2003~2006, Korea Local Information research and Development Agency
OSGeo Charter Member and OSGeo Korean Chapter Member

Passionate about putting innovation at the service of biodiversity, I thrive as a research engineer specializing in data science and marine ecology at IRD (Development Research Institute).

Marc Böhlen is a Professor in the Department of Art and Affiliate Faculty at the Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Institute at the University at Buffalo.

Marco Ciolli (Università di Trento). PhD in Forestry, Associate Professor at DICAM and C3A, University of Trento, Italy. He teaches Master and PhD courses in Applied Ecology, Spatial Ecological Modelling and GIS. He organized Summer Schools, GIS courses and workshops in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and North America to spread and support FOSS4G. His research interests are Biodiversity conservation, GIS Modelling, Landscape ecology, Forest cover change, Remote Sensing, Ecological informatics, Tropical Ecology, Ecosystem services evaluation. He coordinated national and International Research Projects and published 91 scientific research papers, 11 book chapters and 56 conference papers. GRASS user since 1994, he organized the Open Source Free Software GIS - GRASS users international conference 2002 in Italy, wrote educational tutorials and contributed to QGIS and GRASS plugins/addons. He is co-chair of UNESCO Chair in Engineering for Human and Sustainable Development UNITN, member and one of the founders of GFOSS.it, the Italian Chapter of OSGEO.
Presently he is WP leader in the project TransWILD Biodiversa+ Transformative wildlife management to enhance biodiversity protection and ecosystem services provision in shared and protected multi-use landscapes across Europe and participates in other Horizon projects.
Complete curriculum: https://webapps.unitn.it/du/en/Persona/PER0003808/Curriculum and
publications at: https://webapps.unitn.it/du/en/Persona/PER0003808/Pubblicazioni Orcid id:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8370-9039

Dr. Marco Minghini obtained a BSc degree (2008), an MSc degree (2010) and a PhD degree (2014) in Environmental Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. From 2014 to 2018 he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the GEOlab of Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Since 2018 he works as a Scientific Project Officer at the European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy, focusing on (geo)data interoperability, sharing and standardisation in support of European data spaces, and contributing to the operation and evolution of the INSPIRE infrastructure. He is an advocate of open source software and open data. OSGeo Charter Member since 2015, active OpenStreetMap (OSM) contributor and Voting Member of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, Chair of ISPRS ICWG "Openness in Geospatial Science and Remote Sensing". He is a regular participant and presenter at global and local FOSS4G events. He was the Secretary and organiser of FOSS4G Europe 2015.

Margherita Di Leo is an engineer with a PhD in methods and technologies for environmental monitoring. She is an OSGeo charter member since 2011 and has been involved in multiple OSGeo projects and initiatives, such as e.g. GRASS GIS, GSoC and the OSGeo OpenGeoScience Committee. She works as an external consultant at the European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra (VA), Italy.

Educator and Developer at Institute for Geoinformatics University of Münster and CEO of openSenseLab gGmbH.

Mainly working on low-cost sensorstation and computer science education.
https://opensensemap.org
https://sensebox.de
https://opensenselab.org

I'm working as a geospatial staff software engineer / architect at Rohde & Schwarz and as a lecturer at the Deggendorf Institute of Technology.
My main research interests are cloud native geospatial and 3D maps.

Michael has been engaged professionally with mapping and remote sensing since 1991, previously working for both the United States Navy and as a private consultant. He completed his master's degree in geography at Georgia State University (GSU) with a focus on urban geography and later established and managed the Geospatial Laboratory at GSU. Joining Emory in 2007, Michael teaches courses in urban geography, geomorphology, cartography, geographic information systems (GIS), and remote sensing.

Michael is also involved with Emory’s Center for Digital Scholarship where he manages map and data libraries, GIS infrastructure, and consults on research projects that have a geospatial technology/spatial data component. His primary research focus involves cartography, geospatial technologies, and urban geography, and his key projects include OpenWorld Atlanta, Georgia Coastal Atlas, and the American Expedition at Samothrace, Greece. He is the co-author of Sacred Places: A Guide to the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta, Georgia and his maps have been published in many print and digital journals and books.

MIN YOUNG LEE is currently the assistant manager for analyzing spatial big data of SUNDOSOFT Co. Ltd.

Dr. Muhammed Oguzhan METE is currently working as Assistant Professor at Istanbul Technical University, Geomatics Engineering Department. He is also a Community Builder at Amazon Web Services for two years. His research interests include Land Management, Real Estate Management, Cadastre, Geographic Information Systems, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Big Data Analytics and Cloud Computing.

Nathan McEachen has a passion for creating scalable software that is adaptable to changing business requirements. Mr. McEachen obtained his bachelor’s degree in computer science from the College of Engineering at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in the United States. He later worked as a consultant in the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software industry where he implemented and designed several engineering and ecommerce solutions in the biomedical device and oil and gas equipment manufacturing industries. He returned to academia and obtained a master’s degree in computer science from Colorado State University where he taught upper-division object-oriented design courses and published scientific papers in the fields of model-driven engineering (MDE), aspect-oriented programming (AOP) and software testing. Mr. McEachen later founded TerraFrame®. TerraFrame develops software utilizing spatial knowledge graphs to automate data integration and enable spatial analysis. TerraFrame’s solutions have been deployed in several countries for multiple verticals including disease intervention, economic development, media analytics, energy, and the US Department of Interior.

Assistant professor at Faculty of Geotechnical Engineering, University of Zagreb.

Paolo Zatelli is born in Pavia on March the 2nd 1968. He obtained the diploma at A. Roiti High School
of Ferrara in July 1987. He
graduated in Environmental and Land Engineering at the University of Trento cum laude in 1994.
He obtained a PhD degree in Topographic and Geodetic Science with the thesis "Application of
wavelets in geodesy" at the Polytechnic of Milan in 1998.
From February 2001 to 2016 he is researcher and from 2016 associate professor of Geomatics at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering of the University
of Trento, Italy.
The didactic activity regards Survey, Survey and statistics, Photogrammetry, Numerical cartography
and GIS, Remote sensing and GIS, Mathematical and statistical methods. He is coordinator and lecturer
for the course "Environmental data management and analysis with GIS", for the Doctoral School in
Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering of the University of Trento.
He organizes and teaches in several courses for GIS professionals, such as "Theorical and practical
course on GRASS, Free and Open Source GIS and GEODATABASE", "GIS theory and applications"
and "GPS, from theory to applications", and masters, such as the second level Master "Analysis and
management of Geotechnical systems -SIGEO".
The research activity regards different aspects of the land survey and of treatment of related
information, both metric and semantic, including therefore modern data acquisition, efficient
elaboration and integrated management techniques. The study of modern survey methods includes both
point positioning techniques, such as GPS, and global methods such as laser scanning, remote sensing
and digital photogrammetry. Further researches include the study of high resolution earth gravity field
determination by satellite geodesy. Methods for multiresolution data analysis for efficient data
representation and filtering have been developed.
Geographic data treatment and management have been studied with the use of GIS, where new
functionalities have been implemented for the creation of environmental models.
He has acted as local and national research project coordinator, reviewer for international and national
journals.
Ha has organized international and national meetings and he has been part of the committees of several
conferences, for which he has organized many workshops.

Pietro Florio is a GIS analyst and scientific officer at the European Commission, Joint Research Centre. He is in charge of the Degree of Urbanisation dissemination and cooperation activities. He holds a PhD from the Solar Energy and Building Physics Lab at EPFL. He has been working for several years on climate resilience and renewable energies planning in cities. His areas of expertise include building energy modelling and monitoring. Energy Poverty, for which he has been part of the COST Engager Action and had an active role in research and development both in Italy and France; Parametric Architecture, for which he collaborated in a workgroup within the COST RESTORE community; Solar Energy and Urban Planning, for which he has been expert and discussion leader in several IEA Tasks.

Rajif Iryadi is a faculty member of the Forestry Science Program at Gadjah Mada University and a researcher at the Indonesia National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN).

Shin-ichi Sobue got a master degree of engineering from Toyohashi university of Technology in Japan in 1989 and got a philosophical doctor of engineering from Kennedy-Western University in USA in 2000. His major is image data analysis of earth observation data. He joined JAXA in 1989 and had been work for earth observation satellite ground system development and data research management. From January 2017 to 2021, he served Advanced Land Observing Satellite-2 (ALOS-2) project manager. From 2022, he serves deputy chief officer of Earth Observation missions and ALOS-2 mission manager in JAXA. He also plays a role of co-lead of GEOGLAM Asia-RiCE team, ISPRS commission I workgroup 1 co-chair and vice president of remote sensing society of Japan.

Simon Šanca has a background in Geomatics and Geoinformation from University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Currently he is PhD Candidate in Computer Science at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences in Bergen, Norway. Simon is a Slovenian geo-enthusiast, loves open-source GIS, Python and their application for various problems. Simon’s research focuses on developing automatic methods for error detection and correction in the Norwegian cadastre using artificial intelligence. In addition to his research Simon is a dedicated educator, teaching undergraduate courses in geomatics and geoinformatics at the Department of Civil Engineering.

Dr Toshikazu Seto is a Associate Professor, Komazawa University, Japan. He is a member of OSGeo.JP, OpenStreetMap Foundation Japan and OSGeo foundation charter member. He is a social geographer and geographical information scientist. In recent years, he has been engaged in research on participatory GIS and civic-tech open data.

Ulrich Leopold (MSc) is a Senior Researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) with 20 years of experience in Geospatial analysis, simulation and prediction with a focus on GIS, interoperability, spatio-temporal uncertainty propagation analysis and Geostatistics in the fields of urban water cycles, renewable energy potentials, soil management, biodiversity, agriculture, air quality analysis, noise impact assessments, transport and sustainability, Smart Cities and Digital Twins. Ulrich is leading a team for Geocomputation at the Department of Environmental Research and Innovation, serving as Project leader and co-leader as well as Work Package leader in various (inter-)national projects, such as LEAQ, LAN, CRISTAL, CHAMELEON, SECURE (National funded projects), ESTIMUM, VALUES, MOSQUITO (FNR Luxembourg), MUSIC, LaMiLo & CleanMobilEnergy (INTERREG NWE), QUICS, STEP-IN, SAYSO, COMMECT, CitCom.ai (Marie Curie ITN, H2020, HEU, Digital Europe), ProbaV-Topbox (ESA). Ulrich has been supervising Bachelor, Master and Phd students. Ulrich is author and co-author of a large number of peer-reviewed scientific publications, book chapters and conference papers.

I am a postdoctoral researcher in State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University. I am visiting fellow at the CGA of Harvard University. I am also an executor of Spatial Search People. My research interests include Geostatistics and Geoinformatics (GIS), Urban Computing, Social Media Data Mining, and Emergency Response.