Dr. Mattia Marconcini received B.S. and M.S. degrees in telecommunication engineering and a Ph.D. degree in information and communication technologies from the University of Trento, Italy, in 2002, 2004, and 2008, respectively. Between 2004 and 2008 he worked in the Remote Sensing Laboratory of the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Trento. From 2008 to 2012 he was Research Fellow and Technical Officer at ESA-ESRIN. Since 2012, he is project manager and research scientist in the Smart Cities and Spatial Development team at DLR-DFD Land Surface Dynamics Department. He is involved in several international projects as project leader, as well as the generation of global products derived from big earth data including the World Settlement Footprint suite.
Dr. Marconcini has extensive experience in urban remote sensing, machine learning, pattern recognition, image processing, land-cover classification and change detection. Since 2018, he has concurrently worked as technical and management consultant for MindEarth SA becoming a partner of the company in 2021.