Giuseppe is one of the co-organizers of the UR Field Lab on Himalayan Climate Data. He is also an alumni and past co-organizer of the UR Urban Flooding Field Lab in Chiang Mai – 2019. He is currently working as Geospatial Technology Specialist at the World Bank specialized in the application of geospatial technologies to the research, planning and management of environmental and development issues. Specifically, his professional experiences have covered projects in Land Cover and Land Use Change (LCLUC), global environmental change, sustainable development, agriculture, fire management, external costs of transportation, disaster risk management and humanitarian response. Early in his career Giuseppe worked for the Italian Government on the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of large infrastructural projects and the Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) and socio-environmental external costs of transportation. He also held consulting positions for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN, the World Food Program and the World Resources Institute. During his PhD at the University of Maryland, he investigated both near-real-time fire monitoring using satellite remote sensing, and mapping of deforestation at the human-environment interface in the Congo Basin. For the past 5 years he has mainly assisted teams at the World Bank by employing geospatial analysis to support programs ranging from mapping poverty, to analyzing food security to disaster risk management in the South Asia region.
