Summary
Luigi Selmi is a physicist-turned-founder and scientific software engineer with 13+ years building data-intensive systems for research and industry across Italy, Germany and Switzerland. He combines deep expertise in machine learning, distributed computing and remote sensing with a long history in Semantic Web and Big Data platforms developed at Fraunhofer IAIS and in EU-funded projects. As founder of Selmilab and former research fellow at the Institute for Atmospheric Pollution Research, he translates cutting-edge geoscience problems into production-ready AI and data pipelines. His background spans enterprise software for telco and government clients to academic research projects, giving him a rare ability to bridge rigorous science and pragmatic engineering. Luigi is a lifelong learner with certificates across algorithms, cryptography, ML and remote sensing, and co-authored publications in Semantic Web and Earth observation. Based in Rome, he brings both the systems-level perspective of a seasoned architect and hands-on coding experience in scientific software development.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Physics, MSc, Physics at Sapienza Università di Roma
English, French, Portuguese, German