Michele Lazzarini is a Project Manager in the Research, Technology Development and Innovation Unit at the European Union Satellite Centre. He received a MSc in Remote Sensing from the University College London, London, U.K., in 2007, and a Ph.D. degree in Geoinformation from Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy, in 2011. He has more than fifteen years of experience in Earth Observation (EO) and the geospatial domain, where he worked with different entities as international agencies, industry and university, His main interests are related to the exploitation of EO and non-EO data for security and other interconnected domains.