Project Leader at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission based in Ispra, Italy and responsible for the Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity of the EC.
More than 20 years of experience in the field of geoinformatics applied to environmental monitoring (biodiversity, radioactivity, air quality, ...) and team leader developing open source web based services for assessing, monitoring and forecasting biodiversity at the global scale with a focus on protected areas in developing countries (see http://dopa.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ or http://econservation.jrc.ec.europa.eu/).
Focus is on the production and management of free and transparent information for policy support and decision-making.