Mattia Santoro

Mattia Santoro is a Ph.D. student 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 are semantic discovery, environmental models interoperability with a particular focus on the GEO/GEOSS initiative. He has contributed to, and published in various international journals, conferences and workshops in the field of multi-disciplinary interoperability of Geo-spatial resources. He was a member of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems Architecture Interoperability Pilots 3 and 4, in the working groups addressing applications for water, biodiversity and drought.