Biography
Stefano Campus is a civil engineer whose main field of interest is the application of geomatics to spatial data. He works at the SDI (Spatial Data Infrastructure) of Regione Piemonte (an Italian local authority), contributing to all aspects related to the geographical infrastructure, including: creation of metadata, data specifications for geotopographic and thematic databases, analysis of spatial data, preparation of basic and thematic cartography.
Another field of interest is natural disaster prevention, in terms of assessing and mitigating hazard and risk through a spatial approach the use of exclusively Free and Open Source Geographic software.
He is the Italian coordinator of QGIS translation and he was the President of the Italian Association for Free Geographical Information (GFOSS.it), the OSGeo Local Chapter, from 2013 to 2017 and actually he is the vice President.