Verónica Andreo

About

Verónica Andreo is a biologist. She holds a PhD in Biological Sciences and an MSc in Remote Sensing and GIS applications. She works as a researcher for CONICET and lecturer at Gulich Institute - Argentinian Space Agency (CONAE) in Córdoba, Argentina. Her research is focused on uncovering environmental drivers of vector-borne disease outbreaks. She is mostly interested in those environmental features that can be derived by means of satellite image analysis, remote sensing time series and GIS-based techniques.

Verónica is part of the GRASS GIS Development team and currently serves as the PSC chair. She is a strong advocate for OSGeo and free and open source software for geo-spatial (FOSS4G). She was the Program Committee chair for FOSS4G 2021. Among other things, she has volunteered as a mentor for GRASS GIS in the Google Code-In contest introducing high school students into the Open Source world.

Interests

  • Remote sensing time series
  • Image analysis
  • GIS
  • SDM
  • Vector-borne diseases
  • Free and Open Source Software

Education

  • PhD in Biological Sciences. National University of Río Cuarto. 2012.
  • MSc in Spatial Applications for Early Warning and Response to Emergencies. National University of Córdoba. 2015.
  • Biologist. National University of Río Cuarto. 2005.