Summary of work experience
Development and management of international projects, knowledge management, project management
Geoinformatics for environmental assessment and monitoring
Biodiversity conservation
Development and Cooperation
Applied geostatistics
Radioecology
European patents
Professional positions
10.2019 - present: Managing the European Commission's Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity (KCBD).
The KCBD is the one-stop-shop of the European Commission for policy-makers to access the knowledge required to strengthen its biodiversity strategy and to prevent further biodiversity loss.
02.2008 - 12.2022: Project Leader for Global Conservation and Development, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, (JRC) Ispra, Italy.
Leading the Joint Research Centre's work on global conservation and development. See e.g. the work done on the Digital Observatory for Protected Areas (DOPA)
11.2002 - 02.2008: Scientific Officer, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, (JRC) Ispra, Italy. Radioactivity Environmental Monitoring (REM) group.
08.2001 - 11.2002: Examiner at the European Patent Office (EPO), Directorate of Software and Informatics, Den Haag, The Netherlands.
10.1997 - 10.1998: Auxiliary Scientific Officer, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, (JRC) Ispra, Italy. Radioactivity Environmental Monitoring (REM) group.
04.1994 - 07.1997: Grant holder of the EC (Human Capital & Mobility grant), JRC Ispra, Italy. Radioactivity Environmental Monitoring (REM) group.
11.1993 - 04.1994: Trainee at the Nuclear Research Centre (SCK/CEN), Belgium.
Other Scientific Activities
Appointed by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) as a member of the IPBES task force on knowledge and data
Member of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (2014 - )
Honorary Editor of the Journal OneEcosystem (2016 - )
Honorary Editor of the Journal Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation (2015 - )
Honorary Editor of the Journal of Geographic Information and Decision Analysis (1997-2004).
Reviewer: I have been reviewing scientific manuscripts for the journals Science, Conservation Letters (CL), Remote Sensing (RS), Environmental Conservation (EC), Environmental Modelling & Software (EMS), Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation (RSEC), Geoderma, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (IJAEOG), International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research (IJSDIR), Computers and Geosciences (C&G), Environmental Science and Technology (EST), Science of the Total Environment (STE), GeoInformatica, Atmospheric Environment (AE), Journal of Environmental Radioactivity (JER), Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (PE&RS), Geographic Information and Decision Analysis (GIDA), Environmental Management (EM), Science of the Total Environment (STE), Applied GIS (AGIS), Journal of Hydrology (J. Hydrology), Natural Hazards and Earth Systems Sciences (NHESS), Statistical Methods and Applications (Italian Statistical Society).
Member of International Scientific Committees (GeoENV 2012, Spatial Statistics 2011, StatGIS 2003, 2007, 2009, GI Days 2008, Int. Radon Risk Mapping 2006, 2008, IAMG 2006, AMIREG 2004)
Convener / Invited Speaker, mainly on bridging/integrating GIS & Geostatistics or on bridging Earth Observation with Biodiversity Conservation.
Developer and moderator of forums and web sites, mainly focusing on spatial data analysis. AI-GEOSTATS.ORG was for 15 years the main resource on the Internet for spatial statistics.