Mattia Santoro

Mattia Santoro is researcher at the Division of Florence of CNR-IIA. He has a Ph.D. in Methods and Technologies for Environmental Monitoring at the University of Basilicata, Italy. He obtained a degree in computer science at the University of Florence, Italy. He has been working at the Earth and Space Science Informatics Laboratory (ESSI-lab) of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) since 2007. His research interests deal with multidisciplinary interoperability, designing and developing infrastructures and services for geo-spatial resources, with particular focus on semantic discovery and environmental models interoperability. He coordinates the Geospatial Artificial Intelligence and Information Sharing (GAINS) Working Group of the CNR-IIA. He participated in several research projects and initiatives funded by EC (FP7, H2020), US NSF, and National R&I frameworks. He coordinates the design and development of the VLab framework. He is responsible for the GEO Discovery and Access Broker (GEO DAB) operational environment, member of GEOSS Common Infrastructure (GCI) Operations Foundational Task GEOSS Platform Operations Team and of the GEOSS Infrastructure Development Task Team.