Luca Penasa
Professore Associato Di Diritto Processuale Civile (Associate Professor In Civil Procedure)
Padua, Veneto, Italy
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Top SchoolLuca Penasa is an associate professor of Civil Procedure at the University of Udine with 13 years of academic and legal experience, combining courtroom practice and doctoral-level scholarship. He leads high-impact research projects—most notably coordinating a €604,451 Uni4Justice unit—while teaching and organizing international courses on jurisdiction and recognition of foreign judgments. His background spans roles from lawyer to postdoctoral researcher at the University of Padova and includes studies at Milan and Aberystwyth, reflecting a strong comparative and European focus. Unusually for a civil procedure scholar, he contributes to open-source software (CloudCompare), improving binary PCD support and I/O performance, demonstrating practical technical skills in scientific tooling. This mix of legal rigor, project leadership, and hands-on technical contribution positions him to bridge law, policy and research infrastructures effectively.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of MilanLaurea, Giurisprudenza, Laurea, Giurisprudenza at Università degli Studi di PadovaUniversity of Wales, AberystwythLiceo Classico Tito Livio
Github Skills (14)
file-processing10
c-language10
file-access10
cprogramming-language10
fileio10
binary-files9
file-handling9
point-cloud-library8
pcl8
optimization8
optimisation8
optmization8
performance-optimization8
point-cloud8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
CloudCompare/CloudCompare
Feb 2013 - Nov 2020
CloudCompare main repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:76 commits, 15 PRs, 5 pushes in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Luca primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the CloudCompare software. Their contributions included adding support for reading PCD binary files, optimizing file input/output operations, and removing debug statements. The user also addressed compilation issues related to sleep functions and fixed a bug affecting normal calculations. Furthermore, they added the ability to include RGB to scalar field conversion tool.
computer-graphicscloudsurface3d-printingply
planmap-eu/mappy
May 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:3 releases, 35 commits, 12 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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