Summary
Annalisa Minelli is an environmental engineer and data management expert with 18 years of experience applying Open Science principles to coastal and riverine systems. With a PhD in applied geology, she blends GIS, Multi Agent Systems, and geostatistics to map maritime activities, simulate interactions, and study sediment dynamics from local to Mediterranean scales. Now based in Rome, she leads national environmental data harmonization at ISPRA and contributes data governance expertise to the UN Science-Policy-Business Forum on the Environment. Her career bridges academic research—visits to UIUC and CNRS projects—and practical open-source GIS development, evidencing a rare combination of field-focused sedimentology and hands-on spatial software engineering. Notably, she has repeatedly translated complex multistakeholder data into FAIR, shareable systems, improving cross-country interoperability for Mediterranean marine data.
18 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences at Università degli Studi di Perugia
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Italian, French