I am a biologist and I hold a PhD in Biological Sciences and an MSc in Remote Sensing and GIS applications. I work as an assistant researcher for CONICET at the Mario Gulich Institute of the 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 a strong advocate for OSGeo and free and open source software for geo-spatial (FOSS4G). Moreover, I am part of the GRASS GIS Development team and have recently become the new project chair. I have also volunteered as a mentor for GRASS GIS in the Google Code-In contest introducing high school students into the Open Source world.