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European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN) Team
  • Ana Cristina Cardoso

    Ana Cristina Cardoso is a marine biologist, with a ‘Licenciatura’ (5 years University degree) in marine biology and fisheries, and a Ph.D. in marine biology.  

    She has joined the European Commission, Joint Research Centre, in 1995 as a scientific officer. Since then, she has contributed and coordinated several institutional research and science-policy interface projects in the fields of freshwater and marine ecology. She has also participated in several EU-funded or other international and national research projects in these fields.  

    She is (co)author of >90 publications (>40 in peer-reviewed international journals). Current research interests include the assessment of alien invasive species and their impacts on natural ecosystems.  

    She was involved in EASIN conceptual design and she is responsible for its coordination.

  • Eugenio Gervasini

    Eugenio graduated in Agricultural Sciences, and specialized in entomology, phytopathology, Integrated Pest Management and biological control of pests. 

    He worked 15 years at the Lombardy Plant Protection Service (Northern Italy), where he was in charge of the diagnostic labs. He has specific experience in ornamental nursery plants, floriculture, forest and urban forestry protection. He coordinated applied research concerning pests and their biological control in glasshouses, nurseries and in the natural environment, as well as surveys and contingency plans for quarantine pests.  

    In 2003, he joined the Food and Veterinary Office (FVO) Directorate of DG SANTE in Grange (Ireland), where he carried out audits on national plant health control systems, and coordinated dossiers concerning Member States' national surveys for agriculture, forest and environment quarantine organisms.  

    He joined the EASIN Team in December 2014, where he is in charge of coordinating the Editorial Board, Citizen Science activities and communication.

  • Kostas Tsiamis

    Kostas Tsiamis (M.Sc., Ph.D.) is a biologist, specialized in marine biology and oceanography. 
     
    His research focuses on marine alien species, including biology, ecology, taxonomy and systematics, with emphasis on marine plants (seaweeds and seagrasses); pollution impacts and coastal management are also included among his fields of interest.
     
    He has a broad experience in marine biodiversity surveys, carried out in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean, as well as in laboratory analyses. He has participated in >25 international and national research projects and is (co)author of >30 publications in peer-review international journals.
     
    Kostas is a member of the scientific team of EASIN since February 2015.

  • Ivan Deriu

    Ivan is a data specialist and senior analyst from Bosa in Sardinia, Italy. 

     

    He holds a Computer Science degree from the University of Cagliari and he has 15 years of work experience as data expert on international projects collaborating with multicultural teams.

     

    Ivan joined the JRC and the EASIN team in 2012, where he is responsible of the data architecture, processing and analysis of the EASIN integrated platform.

  • Fabio D'Amico

    Fabio joined the JRC in 2011 and is the Application Architect and full-stack developer working at the design and implementation of the EASIN integrated platform. 
     
    He completed the studies in Information Technology, has several Microsoft Certifications, a PRINCE2 certification, an Agile Scrum certification and about twenty years of experience working on information systems for telecommunication, energy, and public organisations.
     
    He also designed and developed the official Notification System (NOTSYS) supporting the EU Regulation No 1143/2014 on the prevention and management of the introduction and spread of invasive alien species.

  • Gemechis Teshome Akuma

    Gemechis achieved his MSc in Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. During his studies, he developed in particular his capabilities on Advanced Database & Software Engineering, Mobile Application, Big Data, Geographic Information System (GIS), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and related topics.

    From 2009 to 2012, he worked at Jimma University, Ethiopia, where he obtained his BSc in computer science. He developed different software applications, to support learning and teaching processes, research, and administrative activities of this University.

    Gemechis joined the EASIN Team as a trainee in February 2016 contributing to the upgrade of the EASIN web site.

    He was also involved in other JRC projects, such as the preparation of a European Atlas of the Seas (MARATLAS), in the implementation of the MSFD Competence Centre (MCC), the Environmental Marine Information System (EMIS), and the Global Marine Information System (GMIS).  

    Gemechis is teaming with the EASIN Data Manager and IT Architect to improve the quality of services EASIN can provide to users.

  • Celia López Cañizares

    Celia got her Licenciatura (long cycle degree) in Biology at the University of Granada (Spain) in 2015.
     
    Her areas of interest are plant ecology, science promotion and environmental education. She gained experience through different projects in Spain, Estonia and Azores Islands (Portugal). In the Azores, she have been involved in different actions related to Azorean forests ecology, population relationships with local biodiversity and citizen science. In addition, her MSc thesis in Management and Conservation of Nature (University of the Azores) aimed to study the invasive plants of Terceira Island in terms of diversity, distribution and local’s perspectives.
     
    Celia joined the Joint Research Center in 2018 as a trainee and continued as an external consultant. Here, she is working on citizen science and the development of the communication strategy of EASIN.
     

  • Chiara Magliozzi *

    Chiara is a freshwater and marine scientist, passionate about community ecology from the level of organisms to that of ecosystems, and in the processes explaining their spatial and temporal patterns.  
     
    Her research has operated at the interface of hydrology and ecology, and focused on:
    • Hydro-ecological investigations to support the development of multi-scale solutions for river management;
    • Interactions of freshwater and marine species with their environments: niche analysis and distribution, taxonomical and functional trait approaches.
    She joined the EASIN team in February 2019, where she works on the improvement of freshwater alien species records in the EASIN geodatabase.

* Former member of the Team