Function and Responsibilities:

Research Interests:

▪ Role of Earth observation for environmental and land-related policies of the European Union (EU)

▪ Hyperspectral / enhanced multispectral missions

▪ Radiative Transfer Modelling

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Career:

2024 - present: Researcher in the Global Monitoring Group, GFZ Potsdam

2022-2024: Researcher at Imaging Processing Laboratory, University of Valencia, Spain

2010-2013 and 2016-2022: Post Doc at the Department of Geography, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

2012-2017 Post Doc in the group of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich

2007 - 2010 PhD Facoltà Agraria, University of Naples, Italy

2005 - 2007 PhD studies at University of Applied Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria 

Education:

2009: PhD in Vegetation Remote Sensing (Agriculture and Forestry), BOKU Vienna, Austria

2003: MSc in Geography, University of Vienna, Austria

Projects:

• 2023-2027: Open-Earth-Monitor Cyberinfrastructure (OEMC): https://earthmonitor.org/ (Role: WP Co-lead)
• 2024-2026: Copernicus Global Land Cover and Tropical Forest and Mapping and Monitoring (LCFM):  https://land.copernicus.eu/en/news/copernicus-global-land-cover-and-tropical-forest-mapping-and-monitoring-service-awarded (Role: WP Lead)
• 2023-2024: ESA High resolution Land Degradation Neutrality Monitoring (Sen4LDN): https://esa-sen4ldn.org/en (Role: WP Lead) 
• 2024-2026: ESA World AgroCommodities: https://agrocommodities.info/ (Role: WP Lead)

Research Boards and Committees:

Since 2023: Sentinel-2 Next Generation Mission Advisory Group