Anne Ghisla

PhD student at GIS and Remote Sensing platform

Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology Department

Research and Innovation Centre - Fondazione Edmund Mach

Via E. Mach 1, 38010 - S. Michele all’Adige (TN), Italia

Tel +39 0461 615 570

e-mail: anne.ghisla@iasma.it

usefull link http://gis.cri.fmach.it/ghisla/

Education and training

Anne Ghisla received her Bachelor and Master degrees in Analysis and Management of Natural Resources at the University of Insubria (Varese, Italy). During her studies she participated twice to Google Summer of Code. In 2010 she moved to South Africa as open source geospatial software developer and trainer. She is currently PhD student at Fondazione Edmund Mach (FEM, Trento, Italy) under the supervision of Dr. Markus Neteler, developing better software tools for natural resources monitoring and management.

Research activity

GIS analysis and development, Remote Sensing

Research interests

Create a stronger connection between computer science and natural science by developing smarter software tools for ecological analysis and landscape management, with the focus on well-tested algorithms, strong coding practices and comfortable user interfaces.

Phd project

University and Department: Technische Universität Berlin. Fakultät VI. Institut für Landschaftsarchitektur und Umweltplanung, Fachgebiet Geoinformation in der Umweltplanung

PhD Schools/Programme: FEM PhD

PhD project/thesis: Multiscale modelling of species diversity and species geographical patterns in the Natura 2000 network

PhD Advisors: Dr. Markus Neteler (FEM), Prof. Dr. Birgit Kleinschmit

Other useful information: OSGeo Charter Member