Mattia is a researcher at the Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research of National Research Council of Italy (CNR-IIA). He has a PhD in Methods and Technologies for Environmental Monitoring at the University of Basilicata, Italy (2012). He obtained a master degree in computer science at the University of Florence, Italy (2008). His main research interests cover the design and development of architectures in support of multidisciplinary applications, with particular focus on semantics and model interoperability. He is responsible of the GEO Discovery and Access Broker (DAB) operational environment and coordinates the development of the Virtual Earth Laboratory (VLab) framework.