Biography

I am a biologist and I hold a PhD in Biological Sciences and an MSc in Remote Sensing and GIS applications. I work as a researcher for CONICET and lecturer at Gulich Institute - Argentinian Space Agency (CONAE) in Córdoba, Argentina. My research is focused on uncovering environmental drivers of vector-borne disease outbreaks. I am mostly interested in those environmental features that can be derived by means of satellite image analysis, remote sensing time series and GIS-based techniques.

I am part of the GRASS GIS Development team and have recently become the new PSC chair. I am a strong advocate for OSGeo and free and open source software for geo-spatial (FOSS4G). Among other things, I have served as Program Committee chair for FOSS4G 2021 and volunteered as a mentor for GRASS GIS in the Google Code-In contest introducing high school students into the Open Source world.

Interests
  • Remote sensing time series
  • Image analysis
  • GIS
  • SDM
  • Vector-borne diseases
  • Free and Open Source Software
Education

  • PhD in Biological Sciences, 2012

    National University of Río Cuarto

  • MSc in Spatial Applications for Early Warning and Response to Emergencies, 2015

    National University of Córdoba

  • Biologist (5-year course of studies), 2005

    National University of Río Cuarto

Skills

Remote sensing

90%

GIS

90%

R

70%

Statistics

70%

Coding

70%

Scientific writing

90%

Recent Publications

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Ecological characterization of a cutaneous leishmaniasis outbreak through remotely sensed land cover changes
In this work we assessed the environmental factors associated with the spatial distribution of a cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) outbreak …
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A zero-inflated mixture spatially varying coefficient modeling of cholera incidences
Spatial disease modeling remains an important public health tool. For cholera, the presence of zero counts is common. The Poisson model …
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Spatial Distribution of Aedes aegypti Oviposition Temporal Patterns and Their Relationship with Environment and Dengue Incidence
Aedes aegypti, the mosquito species transmitting dengue, zika, chikungunya and yellow fever viruses, is fully adapted to thrive in …
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Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Assistant Researcher
CONICET
July 2018 – Present Córdoba, Argentina

Responsibilities include:

  • Research on the environmental drivers of vector-borne diseases
  • Supervision of MSc and PhD students
  • Teaching
 
 
 
 
 
Postdoc researcher
ITC - University of Twente
July 2016 – June 2018 Enschede, The Netherlands

Responsibilities include:

  • Research in image analysis for Health Geography
  • Supervision of MSc and PhD students

Recent & Upcoming Talks

Oct 28, 2020 9:30 PM — 11:00 PM Webinar
Geo-tecnologías y sensado remoto para aplicaciones en Salud Pública
Geo-tecnologías y sensado remoto para aplicaciones en Salud Pública

Invited talk about geospatial technologies applied to public health for the CODSpace webinar organized by CODS.
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Recent Posts

Last updated on May 24, 2021 2 min read
Outcomes of an online GRASS GIS course
Outcomes of an online GRASS GIS course

In March 2021, I taught a GRASS GIS online workshop as part of the distance learning offer of Gulich Institute (CONAE - UNC) in Argentina. We had a total of 65 students from different countries in South America.
Last updated on Jan 13, 2021 5 min read
Working with i.landsat in GRASS GIS
Working with i.landsat in GRASS GIS

In this tutorial, I’ll exemplify different uses of the freshly created i.landsat toolset and its integration with other GRASS GIS core modules and add-ons for a full workflow to process Landsat data.
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Popular Topics

add-on Aedes aegypti Argentina FOSS4G gis GRASS GIS habitat use Hantavirus Landsat LST MaxEnt MODIS mosquito ocean color open source population dynamics remote sensing rodents SDM time series

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