Stefano Nativi

Stefano Nativi

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Stefano Nativi is the Big Data Lead Scientist of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. He is co-chair of the GEOSS Development Task Team (GIDTT) and of the Data Ethics-Law-Policy Subgroup of the Data WG. He funded and chaired the Earth and Space Sciences Informatics (ESSI) Division of the European Geosciences Union (EGU). He is member of the Council of the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE), associate editor of the “Big Earth Data” journal (T&F), and co-editor of the 'AI section” of the “Remote Sensing” journal (MDPI). He is the JRC contact point with the ISO JTC1 –Information Technology and co-chairs the ITU-T Focus Group on "Environmental Efficiency for Artificial Intelligence and other Emerging Technologies" (FG-AI4EE). He is also co-chair of the OGC ESS (Earth Systems Science) Domain WG. He was Head of Unit for the National Research Council of Italy and professor at the Universities of: Padua, Florence, and Friedrich Schiller in Jena. He received the EGU Ian McHarg medal (2019), the Geospatial Innovation Award of the Geospatial World Forum (2014); and the Meritorious Service Medal of the IEEE Committee on Earth Observation (2009).