Claudio leads the Φ-lab Explore group since 2025. He has an academic background in AI and space engineering. Since 2008, he has worked in the Earth Observation and Operations field, designing advanced technologies to be included in the up-, mid- and down-streams. He started his career as YGT at ESRIN, later moved to ESOC contributing to the Adv. Mission Concepts and Technologies Office of Alessandro Donati. He then moved to the United Kingdom where in 2014 was awarded with a PhD in automated mission planning & scheduling systems for distributed missions from the Surrey Space Centre. He led industrial innovation at SSTL in the domain of mission planning system and ground segment for EO small satellites. Claudio then joined ECMWF where he investigated the convergence between HPC and cloud technologies. He returned in ESA ESRIN in 2022 to foster innovation in the cloud-based EO digital platforms and to build strategic collaborations internally and externally. He guided the digital innovation chapter of the 2024 EOP science strategy and has lead the organization of the 2025 Living Planet Symposium.
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