Prof. Dr. Francesco Nex

Earth Observation Science (EOS) Department, University of Twente, The Netherlands;
Prof. Dr. Francesco Nex is currently an Adjunct Professor (UHD1) in the Earth Observation Science (EOS) Department at the University of Twente, where he holds the position of Chair of Real-Time Analytics for Ubiquitous Geo-Sensors. Francesco received his Master's degree in Environmental Engineering (2006) and his PhD (2010) from the Politecnico di Torino (Italy). From 2011 to 2015, he was with the 3DOM unit of FBK (Italy), working as a Marie-Curie Post-Doc in the CIEM Project. In 2015, Francesco joined the University of Twente, initially as an Assistant Professor and later as an Associate Professor, in the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC). His research focuses on the development of innovative solutions integrating elements from photogrammetry, deep learning, and adjacent domains such as robotics to promote the application of UAV imagery in a variety of real-world remote sensing and geomatics applications, as well as their geometric and semantic integration with terrestrial, airborne, and satellite data. He aims to implement automated, real-time, and transferable solutions to be adopted in contexts such as disaster management, infrastructure monitoring, and precision farming. He has been involved in several European and national research projects investigating the use of UAV data for remote sensing applications. He is the Chairman of the ICWG II/Ia (Autonomous Sensing Systems and Their Applications) of the ISPRS (International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing), and he was the PI of several different ISPRS scientific and education initiatives. He has chaired more than 15 conferences and workshops and held multiple distinct roles on several Editorial Boards of indexed journals.