Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe)

GIS Office Coordinator

OIE Collaborating Centre for epidemiology, training and control of emerging avian diseases, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie - GIS Unit, Italy.

I have started to actively work with GIS in 1993 during the Italian foot-and-mouth disease epidemic. Since then, I have had the chance to experience the usage of GIS in different animal diseases and to learn many facets about GIS application in animal health. I have experienced different type software products, digital mapping, geospatial data and data models, location services and automated generalisation techniques. All this is based on my experience of over 20 years at the IZSVe and research activities at national and international level.

Thanks also to my education from Padua University (bachelor in Statistic in 1992, and degree in Political Science, with a specialization in Political Economy in 1996) and IUAV university of Venice (Master in GIS in 2002, and degree in GIS and Remote Sensing in 2013), I have acquired experience to bridge the gap between the technologist and the user, and to manage GIS programs.

I have competence in ISO TC/211 and OGC standards. I’m also directly involved in several research programmes, and in supervising graduate theses for University of Padua (Veterinary department) and IUAV University of Venice. Finally, I am author or coauthor of over 40 publications including peer-reviewed manuscripts, proceeding of conferences and abstracts.

Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe)

Administrative collaborator - Cooperation Unit

I hold a Master’s Degree in Law, Institutions and Policies of European Integration from the University of Padua and have professional experience in the organisation of events such as fairs, workshop and trainings in multilingual and multicultural environments.

Since I joined the Cooperation Unit of Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie I coordinate international projects, both from the technical, logistics and administrative point of view, and I have been involved in the organisation and implementation of different EU funded programmes, such as BTSF and EuropeAid as well as OIE cooperation projects and FAO projects.

Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe)

GIS Systems Analyst / Programmer

OIE Collaborating Centre for epidemiology, training and control of emerging avian diseases, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie - GIS Unit, Italy.

I am a software developer and I approached the GIS in 2006, when I started working at the IZSVe on a project related to Avian Influenza. Over the time I was able to join my software development and database knowledge with GIS, to work on webGIS applications and geo-based systems (exploiting spatial features of different environments). In addition I worked with environmental data, applying remote sensing and GIS analyses on the raster data focused on Vector Bourne Diseases.

My main interests include (but are not limited to): Web-app development (with a particular focus on GIS apps), management of environmental data (for example: land surface temperature) acquired by satellite images to support ecological analysis.

Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe)

Statistician

Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe)

DVM, MSc, PhD - Veterinary Epidemiologist

I am a veterinarian and I started working at IZSVe in 2004, during my PhD. Since then I have been involved in the management of Avian Influenza epidemics and data, including studies related to biosecurity at farm and territorial levels. I was also included in the team managing the oral rabies vaccination in foxes, during the 2008-2011 epidemic in north-eastern Italy, and I have contributed to the regional surveillance plan for West Nile Disease in Veneto region.

My main interests include (but are not limited to): epidemiology of infectious diseases in animals (with a particular focus on spatial analysis), mathematical modelling of disease spread, and ecology of vector borne diseases.