Alexander Kotsev
Team Lead at European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Ispra, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolAlexander Kotsev is a team lead at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre who has spent over a decade driving data-driven digital transformation and spatial data interoperability across EU policy and infrastructure. With a PhD in GISCience and a Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship at Ohio State, he blends rigorous academic grounding with practical leadership of projects like INSPIRE and the MIG-T technical subgroup. His work spans IoT, citizen science, spatio-temporal data and GIScience, focusing on organisational and technological enablers for cross-domain data sharing. Previously he consulted on open-source GIS, taught GIS and regional planning at university level, and supported national and European statistical spatial projects. Based in Ispra, Italy, he combines policy-facing technical stewardship with hands-on experience in sensors, web services and spatial infrastructures. Outside work he’s a father of two who pursues nature, reading, kitesurfing, running and skiing—reflecting a curious, endurance-minded approach to complex problems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (Ph.D.), Geographic Information Science and Cartography, PhD, Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (Ph.D.), Geographic Information Science and Cartography, PhD at Sofia University St. Kliment OhridskiFulbright senior scholar, GIScience, Fulbright senior scholar, GIScience at The Ohio State University
English, Italian, Bulgarian
Github Skills (39)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
INSPIRE-MIF/gp-ogc-api-features
Dec 2019 - Apr 2021
Good Practice document for INSPIRE download services based on OGC API - Features
Contributions:64 commits, 29 PRs, 63 pushes in 1 year 4 months
good-practiceapiogcinspireogc-api-features
alexanderkotsev/2017.2
Dec 2018 - Apr 2021
Repository for action 2017.2 on alternative encodings
Contributions:21 pushes in 2 years 4 months
encodings
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