Professor of GIS at the Politecnico di Milano (PoliMI), member of the School of Doctoral Studies in Data Science at “Roma La Sapienza” University. She was the Vice-Rector of PoliMI for the Como Campus (2011-2016) and she is currently the head of the GEOLab (Geomatics and Earth Observation Lab) of the PoliMI. She is the Deputy Chair of the ISPRS TC on Spatial Information Science; former member of ESA ACEO (Advisory Committee of Earth Observation); co-chair of the United Nations Open GIS Initiative, Chair of the UN-GGIM (Global Geospatial Information Management) Academic Network, mentor of the PoliMI Chapter of YouthMappers (PoliMappers). Moreover she is the Associate Editor of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information Responsible for the area: Geospatial Artificial Intelligence. Her research activity is in the field of geomatics. Her interests have been various, starting from geodesy, radar-altimetry and moving later to GIS, webGIS, geospatial web platform, VGI, Citizen Science, Big Geo Data, geoAI. She is participating and leading research on these topics within the frameworks of both national and international projects and scientific networks. One of her main interests is in Open-Source GIS, where she is playing a worldwide leading role.
