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Gregory Giuliani
Lecturer at the University of Geneva (http://www.unige.ch/envirospace) and SDI officer at GRID-Geneva (http://www.grid.unep.ch) Homepage: http://www.unige.ch/envirospace/people/giuliani/
Location:
Geneva, Switzerland
Short Bio:
Dr. Gregory Giuliani. Lecturer at the University of Geneva, Institute for Environmental Sciences/enviroSPACE lab. & Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Coordinator at UNEP/GRID-Geneva. He was Manager of EU/FP7 EOPOWER project (http://www.eopower.eu), Work package leader in the EU/FP7 enviroGRIDS (http://www.envirogrids.net) and AFROMAISON projects (http://www.afromaison.net) where he coordinated SDI development and implementation. He also participated in the EU/FP7 ACQWA project (http://www.acqwa.ch), and is GRID-Geneva lead developer of the PREVIEW global risk data platform (http://preview.grid.unep.ch). He coordinates and develops capacity building material on SDI for enviroGRIDS and has active participation/contribution to various Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) activities. Coordinator of the Task ID-02 "Developing Institutional and Individual Capacity" for GEO/GEOSS.
Research:
GIS, Remote Sensing, Spatial Data Infrastructure, Earth Observations, GEO/GEOSS, Geosciences, Environmental sciences, Natural hazards, Climate and Ecosystem services, Natural Capital, Planetary Boundaries, Sustainable Development Goals, Essentials Variables, Distributed computing, Information Science, Open Source, Open Data.
Education:
2009-2011: PhD in Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Institute of Environmental Sciences, enviroSPACE Group. PhD thesis: Spatial Data Infrastructures for Environmental Sciences. 1998-2001: Master in Natural Sciences of the Environment, Faculty of Sciences, University of Geneva. Master thesis: Traitement et interprétation de l'imagerie satellitaire multispectrale des lacs subalpins. 1995-1998: Bachelor in Earth Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, University of Geneva.