Giovanni Rapacciuolo
Chief Executive Officer at Elimia
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGiovanni Rapacciuolo is a biodiversity data science leader and CEO based in San Diego with 11 years of experience translating big ecological data into actionable conservation insights. He builds and directs multidisciplinary teams to integrate, analyze, and visualize large-scale biodiversity and global change datasets, drawing on deep expertise in macroecology, GIS, and systematic conservation planning. Prior roles at NatureServe, the California Academy of Sciences, and top universities reflect a track record of moving research into applied products and partnerships that influence policy and practice. Giovanni combines rigorous, reproducible data workflows and web mapping with strong communication skills, supervising students and presenting at scientific forums. As a founder-executive he balances day-to-day operations and business development while maintaining hands-on technical work in R and biodiversity informatics. He often bridges the gap between long-term ecological modeling and practical decision-support tools used by public, private, and nonprofit clients.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biodiversity and Global Change, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biodiversity and Global Change at Imperial College London
French, Italian, English
Github Skills (6)
r-package3
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visualization2
data-visualization1
visualizations1
r2d31
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
giorap/giorap.github.io
Nov 2018 - Jan 2024
Contributions:63 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
giorap/SGCN-manuscript
Jun 2022 - Jul 2023
Contributions:3 releases, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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