Giulio joined ISRIC in 2021 as a specialist in digital soil mapping. He works on digital soil mapping projects dealing with spatial modelling and designing scientific workflows. He is actively involved in creating and maintaining SoilGrids and related products, as well as connecting the Digital Soil Mapping team and the Spatial Data Infrastructure team to the Land Soil Crop Hubs and Soils4Africa projects.

Giulio has a PhD from the University of Bozen/Bolzano in collaboration with Eurac research. He was a Guest Researcher at ISRIC for six months, where he assessed the applicability of convolutional neural networks for SoilGrids. He holds a BSc in Environmental Sciences from the Sapienza University of Rome and an MSc in Forestry from the University of Tuscia. Giulio's research interests include modelling the spatial distribution of soil properties, the role of heavy metals in soil functioning, and water use efficiency in agriculture. 

He uses a data science approach to answer scientific questions. He strongly believes in open-source software and open data and focuses on code efficiency and parallel computation in high-performance computing.

Giulio speaks English and Italian.