Luca Delucchi graduated in Geography applied to the environment, landscape and tourism from University of Genoa (Italy) in 2008. Since the same year he work at Fondazione Edmund Mach (FEM).

He is interested in all features about GIS: desktop, web, geodatabase, developing and geodata.
Inside FEM he is working as database manager and he develop client to manage and visualize the data, mainly web application, for several colleagues, he also make GIS analysis thanks to the powerful software GRASS GIS, using the HPC system of the Fondazione that permit to analyse big data.

Since 2018 he is also a recognized drone pilot, he used the drone to analyse landscape using multispectral cameras to calculate several indices.

He is core developer and translator of GRASS GIS project, main developer of pyModis library and OSGeoLive and ZOO-Project contributor; in 2022, since Digital Agricultural unit start, he started a new project called DigiAgriApp, a free and open source software to manage agricultural fields and the related data. He is also an advocate and contributor of OpenStreetMap project, a free, editable map of the whole world that is being built by volunteers largely from scratch and released with an open-content license.

He has been part of organising committee of several Italian and international conference, specially he was the chair of the successful FOSS4G 2022 held in Florence, with more then 1000 participants coming from all over the world.