Maria Brovelli was honored with the 2015 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software during the FOSS4G 2015 conference in Seoul, South Korea. This was the eleventh year of the award.
Maria has been working at the Politecnico di Milano since 1994, first as researcher, then as Associate Professor and finally as Full Professor. She is currently teaching Digital Cartography, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Internet GIS. In 1997, she started the Laboratory of Geomatics, placed at the Como Campus of the Politecnico di Milano and up to 2011 she has coordinated its activities as Head of the Lab. She has been involved in Politecnico governance by covering several service activities. Currently (since January 2011) she is Vice Rector of Politecnico di Milano for the Como Campus.
Maria is also charter member of OSGeo, a member of its Committee “Education and Curriculum”, and is on the Advisory Board for the Geo For All initiative. She is member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Society of Photogrammetry and Surveying (SIFET) and member of the Bulletin Editorial Board. In 2010 she hosted the WebMGSevent in Como, an international workshop on ‘Pervasive Web Mapping, Geoprocessing and Services’. Most recently she hosted FOSS4G-Europe in her beautiful hometown of Como, in July of 2015.
On behalf of OSGeo and the “Geo for All” community our congratulations to Maria and her wonderful family.
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2015 Sol Katz Award committee
