Dr. Riccardo Fellegara worked as a Post-Doctoral Associate under Dr. Leila DeFloriani in the Center for Geospatial Information Science. During his time at the University of Maryland he acted as a researcher, mentor, and teacher. He will be a Senior Researcher in Computer Science at the DLR Simulation and Software Technology department in Braunschweig, Germany. Here he will process and manage simulation models for interactive Earth system analysis and visualization.