Luca is an OSGeo and OSM contributor and advocate. He graduated in Geography applied to the environment, landscape and tourism from University of Genoa (Italy) in 2008. Since the same year he work at Fondazione Edmund Mach, a research center near Trento. He is interested in all features about GIS: desktop, web, geodatabase, developing and geodata. He is core developer and translator of GRASS GIS project, he is also OSGeoLive and ZOO-Project contributor. Luca is the main developer of pyModis library. He is really active in the Italian community, GFOSS.it. From February 2012 to October 2015 he has been a board member and since 21 November 2017 he became President of the Italian OSGeo local chapter.