The "In the Spotlight" series features double sessions of two 20-minute presentations, each followed by a 10-minute open dialogue and Q&A. Designed to introduce new colleagues to the broader FEM research community, these sessions offer a platform for team members to share their scientific backgrounds, present active projects, and showcase specialized technical skills. For this session In the Spotlight session, we are pleased to introduce Dr. Luca Delucchi and Dr. Federico Fattorini. Anyone interested is warmly invited to attend.

Luca Delucchi graduated in Geography applied to the environment, landscape and tourism from University of Genoa (Italy) in 2008. Since then he worked at Fondazione Edmund Mach, a research center near Trento. He is interested in all features about GIS: desktop, web, geodatabase, developing and geodata. In FEM he works as GIS technician, web developer and database manager supporting several groups helping them to manage their own data.He is OSGeo and OpenStreetMap advocate and he contributed to GRASS, QGIS, OSGeoLive,  ZOO-Project WebODM and many others free software. Luca is the main developer of pyModis library and DigiAgriApp project. He was the chair of the successful FOSS4G 2022 held in Florence, it was the first internation FOSS4G meeting in person after the COVID-19 .

Federico Fattorini graduated in Forest and Environmental Sciences from Università Politecnica delle Marche in Ancona, where he also earned his Master’s degree in Forest, Soil, and Landscape Sciences. Since November 2025, he has worked at Fondazione Edmund Mach. He is interested in forest ecology, GIS, remote sensing, and environmental data analysis. At FEM, he works as a technician specializing in multispectral data, using satellite imagery, spectroscopy, and IoT technologies to support environmental research activities.