Work Experience

Junior Scientist

Sep 2025 - current, CMCC, ICR, REMHI Division, PRESTO Unit

Main activities and responsibilities: Research activity on Climate Science, integrating Earth Observation and Artificial Intelligence techniques.

Research Fellow in Quantum Computing for Earth Observation

Oct 2022 - Aug 2025, ESA, ESRIN, Φ-lab

Main activities and responsibilities: Research activity on Quantum Machine Learning and Quantum Computing applied to Earth Observation and the space sector, with a focus on operationability. Technical Officer for the QC4EO OSIP activities, for the ITT on QC4EO and Blockchain4EO, and for several AI and Earth Observation initiatives. TEB expert evaluator.

OSIP — AI-Powered Cross-Modal Adaptation for Earth Observation

Jan 2020 - Oct 2022, ESA, ESRIN, Φ-lab

Main activities and responsibilities: Technical responsible for the ESA co-funded OSIP activity: AI-powered cross-modal adaptation techniques applied to Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data.

Visiting Researcher

Jul 2019 - Nov 2019, ESA, ESRIN, Φ-lab

Main activities and responsibilities: Master’s internship at ESA Φ-lab. Creation of neural networks for Earth Observation applications. Implementation of scripts for creating satellite image datasets. Monitoring of natural disasters such as landslides and volcanic eruptions. Processing of Sentinel data.

Acquired skills and achieved objectives: Advanced concepts of machine learning and neural networks, advanced concepts of Python programming, advanced concepts of data science. Management of computing resources and work on virtual machines. Team working. Co-organization of a side event at the Φ-Week 2020.

Earth Observation Engineer

Sep 2019 - Nov 2019, Titan4

Main activities and responsibilities: Research activity on satellite data and application development, mainly for structural monitoring based on SAR and optical satellite data. Use and validation of a tool for the measurement of displacements. The start-up was incubated in ESA BIC Lazio.

Acquired skills and achieved objectives: Applied remote sensing for structural monitoring, satellite data processing, and validation of displacement measurement tools.