About Us

Frank Ostermann and Laura Spinsanti are research associate at the European Commission Joint Research Centre in the Digital Earth and Reference Data Unit. Currently, they are working on exploratory research projects investigating the integration user-generated geographic information and UAV data within existing spatial data infrastructures in the context of crisis management.

Prior to joining the JRC, Frank has worked as post-doc at the University of Zurich, where he worked on analysis and visualization of human spatio-temporal activity patterns, and the retrieval and evaluation of volunteered geographic information. You can check out his public LinkedIn profile here.

Prior to joining the JRC, Laura has worked as post-doc at the Database Laboratory at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. She worked on semantic trajectory representation, geographic semantic enrichment and ontology application for knowledge discovery.

You can contact us either through our various (net)work addresses, or at jrc.vgi.ff(replace_with_at_sign)gmail.com.