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Geospatial Information Expert – consultant, civil servant, Scientific Councillor, lecturer and supervisor (PhD, MSc, BSc), recently a Sustainable Development Officer with 25+ years of experience in the areas of geospatial, environmental, natural and social sciences/fields, Earth observation, hazard and risk management, project/programmes evaluation, etc. at 14 academic, governmental, NGO, IGO (UN) and consulting organizations in 9 countries. Simplifier and constructor of new algorithms. Able to build every aspect of digital, from the front end to the back end and everything in between. Career highlights include strong leadership (head of the dept., chief GIS). Fieldwork in ecological, archaeological, anthropological and geomorphological mapping, geodetic survey and humanitarian, in resource-limited settings. Designed and delivered courses in GIS/RS, cartography, spatial data and information quality, and digital terrain modelling. Documented innovative methods and technical solutions: [1] spatial data integration/conflation with semantic enrichment to reduce the cost of digital elevation model (DEM) up to 25-times, realized for the National DEM and implemented into the EU and Google Earth models; [2] geomorphometry based index for feature detection and recognition, visualization and photography enhancement, used in the Esri World Topographic Map; [3] methodology to pre-process any geospatial data with special tools to make them ‘analytics ready’, realized for the ESCWA Spatial Data Infrastructure and will be realized with ESA (€150m). Awarded with over 25 competitive grants including Skolkovo Innovation Center and Fulbright.

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  • GEOSPATIAL

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Undersecretary

  • Slovenia, Ljubljana
Geospatial Information Expert – consultant, civil servant, Scientific Councillor, lecturer and supervisor (PhD, MSc, BSc), recently a Sustainable Development Officer with 25+ years of experience in the areas of geospatial, environmental, natural and social sciences/fields, Earth observation, hazard and risk management, project/programmes evaluation, etc. at 14 academic, governmental, NGO, IGO (UN)... and consulting organizations in 9 countries. Simplifier and constructor of new algorithms. Able to build every aspect of digital, from the front end to the back end and everything in between. Career highlights include strong leadership (head of the dept., chief GIS). Fieldwork in ecological, archaeological, anthropological and geomorphological mapping, geodetic survey and humanitarian, in resource-limited settings. Designed and delivered courses in GIS/RS, cartography, spatial data and information quality, and digital terrain modelling. Documented innovative methods and technical solutions: [1] spatial data integration/conflation with semantic enrichment to reduce the cost of digital elevation model (DEM) up to 25-times, realized for the National DEM and implemented into the EU and Google Earth models; [2] geomorphometry based index for feature detection and recognition, visualization and photography enhancement, used in the Esri World Topographic Map; [3] methodology to pre-process any geospatial data with special tools to make them ‘analytics ready’, realized for the ESCWA Spatial Data Infrastructure and will be realized with ESA (€150m). Awarded with over 25 competitive grants including Skolkovo Innovation Center and Fulbright. more
  • GEOSPATIAL
  • Sustainable Development Officer, Chief GIS, Geospatial Information Officer at   United Nations  
  • May, 2019 - April, 2023