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Research activity

ENEA - Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Laboratory for Analysis and Protection of Critical Infrastructures (APIC) - Casaccia Research Centre (Rome)

Head of Laboratory for the Analysis and Modelling of Critical Infrastructures and Essential Services  (ICS)

R&D activity in the fields of Geomatics (Remote Sensing and GIS) and Spatial Decision Support Systems (DSS):

• Design and development of spatial Decision Support Systems (DSS) for: Environmental and territorial monitoring; Risk Assessment; Critical Infrastructure Protection; Energy Resources Management; Emergency Management.
• Integrated remote sensing and GIS methodologies for land use and environmental analysis (Land Use/Land Cover Change).
• Design and development of GIS methodologies and WebGIS applications for urban monitoring and spatial planning.
• Urban 3D reconstruction by means of aerial photogrammetric surveys, drone and LiDAR data.
• Stages and degree thesis tutorship.
• Head of ENEA Casaccia ECDL Test Center (until 2019).

Responsible of Research Projects and Contracts

Editorial activity

Reviewer for many international Journals: Remote Sensing, Infrastructures, Land, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Sustainability, Future Internet, Environments (MDPI); International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Ecological Informatics (Elsevier); European Journal of Remote Sensing, International Journal of Digital Earth (Taylor & Francis); Land Degradation & Development (John Wiley & Sons); Environmental Engineering and Management Journal (Gh. Asachi Univ. of Iasi); Earth System Dynamics (EGU); International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems (IGI-Global); Journal of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA); Journal of Geography and Regional Planning; J-READING; Scientific Reports, Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring (Springer Nature).

Member of the Topical Advisory Panel of the MDPI ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information.

Guest Editor:

• Geographic Information Science and Remote Sensing Techniques for Sustainable Urban and Regional Planning (ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information - lJGI);
• Geomatics and Geo-Information in Earthquake Studies (ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information - lJGI);
• Geo-Information Technology for Air Quality Management. New Trends and Scientific Challenges (ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information - lJGI);
• Geomatics in Forestry and Agriculture: New Advances and Perspectives (ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information - lJGI);
• Geomatics and Sustainability: Examples and Application in Urban and Landscape Management (Land);
• Sustainability and Resilience: Challenges and Opportunities in Seismic Risk Prevention, Mitigation and Adaptation (Sustainability). 
• RS and GIS for Monitoring and Enhancing the Resilience of Urban Heritage (Remote Sensing)

Conferences and Workshops

Member of Programme Committee of the International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA) 2011-2023)

Member of the Technical Program Committee della International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services – GEOProcessing (2012-2016)

Organiser and Co-Chair of:

• ASTER Workshop 2015-2016-2017-2018-2019-2020-2021-2022-2024 (Advances in information Systems and Technologies for Emergency preparedness and Risk assessment).
• Deep Cities: Intelligence and Interoperability" Workshop 2017.
• AirQ&CScience Workshop 2020 (Air quality monitoring and Citizen Science for smart urban management. State of the art and perspectives).
• Thematic Session: "Spatial data infrastructures, urban modelling and geospatial analyses in assessing urban and rural landscapes: new perspectives and open challenges" - New Metropolitan Perspectives – International Symposium 2020 and 2022.
• GeoForAgr Workshop 2020-2021-2022-2023 (Geomatics in Forestry and Agriculture: new advances and perspectives).

Teaching activity

Responsibilities

Project responsible:

• 2023-Ongoing: IRIDE “Service Segment Design Implementation and Deployment” (ESA - eGeos Subcontract)
• 2022-Ongoing. Fabre Consortium. Inspection, evaluation and monitoring of bridges and viaducts (ANAS)
• 2022. Fabre Consortium. Inspection, evaluation and monitoring of bridges and viaducts (ASTM)
• 2018-2021. RAFAEL Project - "System for Risk Analysis and Forecast for Critical Infrastructure in the ApenninEs dorsaL Regions". MIUR PON 2014-2020 (PNR 2015-2020).
• 2021-2022. MOST Project "Strategic Monitoring of Critical Infrastructures". ENEA-OnAir Contract.
• 2018-2023. SCIRES Project - "Supporting Critical Infrastructure REsilience from Space". ESA (European Space Agency) Invitation to Tender (ITT) for Space-based Services to support resilient and sustainable Critical Infrastructure
• 2017-2018. Research Contract between the Department of Agriculture of "Mediterranean" University of Reggio Calabria and ENEA for technical-scientific activities within the National Projects PON03PE_00090_2 (MIUR - PON "Ricerca e Competitività 2007-2013).
• 2015-2017. Research Contract between the Department of Agriculture of "Mediterranean" University of Reggio Calabria and ENEA for technical-scientific activities within the National Projects PON03PE_00090_3 (MIUR - PON "Ricerca e Competitività 2007-2013).
• 2017: Research Contract between World Bank and ENEA for: "Training and capacity building for Afghanistan GeoNode Platforms Hosting a Multi-hazard risk assessment".
• 2015-2017. "Selection #1187526 Afghanistan - Multi-hazard risk assessment" (2015-2017) and "Training and Capacity Building for Afghanistan GeoNode Platform Hosting a Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment" (2017): ENEA - World Bank Contract.

Scientific responsible of eight different collaboration agreements between ENEA and Universities (Rome "Sapienza" and L'Aquila), in the framework of the "Electric System Research" Programme Agreement between the Italian Ministry for Economic Development and ENEA.

Project Manager (RUP) in the context of ENEA administrative and contractual procedures.

Member of the ENEA "Drones" Working Group.

Member of the ENEA Task Force for the 2016-2017 Central Italy Earthquake Emergency management.

Member of the Management Committee of the COST Action TU1306 "Fostering Knowledge about the relationship between Information and Communication Technologies and Public Spaces supported by strategies to improve their use and attractiveness.

Head of the ECDL-GIS ENEA Test Center (2017-2019).

Member of the Fabre Consortium Assembly (2024-2028).