Lorenzo
Stucchi

Available for collaboration

GIS Analyst at OverIT. PhD from Politecnico di Milano in Environmental & Land Planning Engineering. Passionate about open geospatial data, FOSS4G and civic technology. Co-founder of PoliMappers β€” Europe's first YouthMappers chapter. Former national OSM coordinator at Wikimedia Italia. Councillor for Renewable Energy Communities & Digital Innovation at Comune di Sulbiate.

Lorenzo Stucchi
2+
Years as GIS Analyst at OverIT
PhD
Politecnico di Milano & RSE
4
Years national OSM coordinator
4
Peer-reviewed publications
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Contact & Links

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Projects

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Air Quality β€” Sulbiate

Real-time and historical air quality monitoring powered by automated GitHub Actions workflows pulling CSV data from madavi.de and sensor.community APIs, with daily average computation and a JS dashboard.

GitHub Actionssensor.communityJavaScript
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Accessibility Map β€” Sulbiate

Visualisation of pedestrian accessibility across Sulbiate using OpenStreetMap data, supporting inclusive urban mobility planning. Extends the ViaLibera?! research methodology to a local civic context.

OpenStreetMapAccessibilityCivic Tech
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Wheelchair Routing β€” OsmAnd

Guide and toolset for configuring accessible wheelchair routing in OsmAnd, based on OSM data. Includes an Italian installation guide and an open-source GitHub companion repository.

OsmAndRoutingOSM
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CartONG Mapathon Dashboard

Originally a personal TeachOSM mapathon management tool β€” now fully integrated into the official CartONG dashboard used globally for humanitarian mapping coordination.

CartONGTeachOSMHumanitarian
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#ExploreOutdoors18 β€” Mapbox

Honorary winner of the Mapbox ExploreOutdoors18 contest (Sep. 2018). Field mapping narrative combining geospatial storytelling with outdoor exploration.

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Mapathon β€” Sulbiate

Results and impact of the community mapping event in Sulbiate, showcasing citizen cartography contributions to OpenStreetMap at the municipal level.

PoliMappersCommunityOSM
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Work History

2024.04 β€” Present
OverIT
GIS Analyst

Geospatial data analysis and development of GIS workflows for enterprise field service management. Design and delivery of spatial solutions integrating open and proprietary geospatial technologies, with strong focus on FOSS4G tools.

ARCGISARCPYPythonTECH AnalysisSpatial Analysis
2022.06 β€” Present
Comune di Sulbiate
Councillor β€” Renewable Energy & Digital Innovation

Delegation for Renewable Energy Communities (CER), driving inter-municipal outreach and the adoption of community energy models. Also responsible for Digital Innovation.

CERRenewable EnergyCivic TechInnovation
2022.01 β€” Present
State of the Map WG
Volunteer β€” Travel Grant Lead

Member of the OpenStreetMap Foundation's State of the Map Working Group, contributing to the organisation of the annual global OSM conference. Acting as Travel Grant Lead for SOTM 2026 (Paris), SOTM 2025 (Manila) and SOTM 2024 (Nairobi), ensuring equitable access to the event for contributors from underrepresented regions. Previously part of the local team for SOTM 2022 (Florence) and a volunteer at SOTM 2018 (Milan).

OpenStreetMapConference Org.Travel GrantsVISA ProcessPeople Management
2021 β€” 2025
Wikimedia Italia
Volunteer - Italian National OpenStreetMap Coordinator

Led Italy-wide coordination of OpenStreetMap activities: organised mapathons, workshops and school outreach. Represented OSM Italia within the Wikimedia ecosystem. Previously served as Lombardy regional coordinator (2020–2021).

OpenStreetMapCommunityOpen DataEducationMapathonsProject management
2021.02 β€” 2024.06
PoliMi + RSE S.p.A.
PhD Researcher

Doctoral research in collaboration with Ricerca Sistema Energetico – RSE S.p.A. Focused on geospatial methodologies for energy system analysis, evapotranspiration mapping, and renewable source site identification.

GISRemote SensingEnergy SystemsPythonWebgis
2022.05 β€” 2022.07
European Space Agency - ESA
Visiting Researcher

Conducted in-depth research at ESA on evapotranspiration estimation, automating the Sen-ET methodology to streamline large-scale data processing workflows.

GISRemote SensingEnergy SystemsPythonWebgis
2020.06 β€” 2021.02
Politecnico di Milano
Research Fellow β€” Dept. Civil & Environmental Engineering

Research fellowship (Assegno di ricerca) in GEOlab. Designed and tested mapping methods for pedestrian accessibility within the ViaLibera?! project.

GIS ResearchAccessibilityOSMErasmus+
2016.11 β€” 2024.06
PoliMappers
Co-founder & Vice President

Co-founded PoliMappers, Europe's first YouthMappers chapter, at Politecnico di Milano. Served as Treasurer (2016–2018), Vice President (2018–2019) and Communications and Social Media Responsible (2021-2024), organising international mapathons. Presented the Climate Mapathon at ESA Living Planet Symposium 2019.

YouthMappersHumanitarian OSMESALeadership
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Education

PhD
Environmental & Infrastructure Engineering
Politecnico di Milano & RSE S.p.A.
2021 β€” 2024
Thesis: Evaluation of the impact of land cover map resolution in identifying suitable areas for new ground-mounted photovoltaic installations: a case study for the Province of Cuneo
MSc
Environmental & Land Planning Engineering
Politecnico di Milano
2017 β€” 2020
Thesis: Mapping the accessibility in OpenStreetMap: a comparison of different techniques - Final mark: 104 / 110
BSc
Environmental & Land Planning Engineering
Politecnico di Milano
2014 β€” 2017
Thesis: Un algoritmo per l'automatizzazione del calcolo degli spostamenti del ghiacciaio Belvedere (Macugnaga - VCO) con immagini acquisite da drone - Final mark: 104 / 110
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Skills & Tools

Geospatial
QGIS
OpenStreetMap / Overpass
ARCGIS PRO
GDAL
Remote Sensing
Leaflet / Mapbox
Development
Python (GeoPandas, Shapely)
ARCPY
JavaScript / HTML / CSS
SQL
GitHub Actions
LaTeX
Domain
Civic & Open Data
Digital
Renewable Energy (CER)
Environmental Engineering
English
Drone / Photogrammetry
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Publications

[1]
PhD Thesis: Valutazione dell'impatto della risoluzione delle mappe di copertura del suolo nell'identificazione delle aree idonee per le nuove installazioni di fotovoltaico a terra : un caso di studio per la provincia di Cuneo
L. Stucchi β€” June 2024
[2]
Improvement of the Techniques for the Computation of Evapotranspiration Maps
L. Stucchi, M. Aiello, A. Gargiulo, M.A. Brovelli β€” May 2022
[3]
Copernicus and the Energy Challenge
L. Stucchi, M. Aiello, A. Gargiulo, M.A. Brovelli β€” Aug. 2021
[4]
Innovation in Teaching: The PoliMappers Collaborative and Humanitarian Mapping Course at Politecnico di Milano
F. Gaspari, L. Stucchi, G. Bratic, D. Jovanovic, C. Ponti, L. G. A. Biagi, M. A. Brovelli β€” Aug. 2021
[5]
Mapping the Accessibility in OpenStreetMap: A Comparison of Different Techniques
L. Stucchi, L. Biagi, M. Brovelli β€” Aug. 2020
[6]
Innovation in Teaching: The PoliMappers Collaborative and Humanitarian Mapping Course at Politecnico di Milano
C. Kilsedar, D. Oxoli, L. Sganzetta, F. Frassinelli, L. Stucchi, M. Minghini, M. Brovelli β€” Feb. 2017
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MSc Thesis: Mapping the Accessibility in OpenStreetMap β€” A Comparison of Different Techniques
L. Stucchi β€” Mark: 104/110
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BSc Thesis: An Algorithm for Automating the Calculation of Displacements of the Belvedere Glacier with Drone Imagery
L. Stucchi β€” Sept. 2017