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with skills in data science so that the full depth of the newly available information
can be successfully exploited. Building this expertise will be one of the central chal-
lenges for the next decade.
Author Biographies
Dr. Sven Schade is a geospatial information scientist with a special interest
in knowledge extraction from (big) data, multidisciplinary interoperability,
and open innovation. Since September 2013, he has been working as a scien-
tific officer for the Digital Earth and Reference Data Unit of the European
Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), where he already worked for three
years as a postdoc (2009-2012). Before rejoining the JRC, he was employed by
the European Environment Agency (EEA) as a project manager for the Shared
Environmental Information System (SEIS). In his early career, Sven spent ten
years with the Institute for Geoinformatics (IfGI) of the University of Muenster,
where he completed his diploma and PhD studies and contributed to numerous
national and European-level research projects in the area of semantic interoper-
ability. Sven is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal for Spatial Data
Infrastructure Research (IJSDIR), is a council member of the International
Society for Digital Earth (ISDE), and has coauthored more than 80 publications
in the fields of geospatial semantics, observation web, and next-generation knowl-
edge infrastructures.
Dr. Carlos Granell is a postdoctoral fellow at GEOTEC (UJI). His research lines
are centered on spatial data interoperability, geoprocessing services, composition
and reuse of geographic services, and more recently architectural styles for inte-
grated environmental modeling and data visualization. He has carried out short
research stages at SINTEF (Norway), at the Faculty of Geo-Information Science
and Earth Observation of the University of Twente (The Netherlands), at the
University of Nottingham (UK), and at the University of Milano Bicocca (Italy).
Prior to joining GEOTEC again in 2014, he spent three years as a postdoctoral
researcher at the European Commission-Joint Research Centre (EC-JRC), Ispra
(Italy). Granell has a PhD degree in computer science from the University Jaume I
of Castellón, Spain.
Dr. Andrea Perego is a researcher at the Digital Earth and Reference Data Unit
of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC). His research inter-
ests cover semantics, knowledge engineering, cross-domain interoperability, and
Open Data. Andrea is a member of the JRC team in charge of the technical coor-
dination of the INSPIRE Directive of the EU, and he is involved in European
and international initiatives on Open Data and cross-domain interoperability—
as the Research Data Alliance (RDA) and the EU program on “Interoperability
Solutions for European Public Administrations” (ISA). Before joining JRC in
2011, Andrea worked for ten years in academic institutions, where, as a PhD
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