Laura Muscas is senior researcher at CRS4 where she has been working since 1992. She got a degree (cum laude) in civil engineering (structural section) at the University of Cagliari in 1990 and a PhD in geo-environmental engineering at the Politecnico of Torino in 1994. In the 1992 she attended the post-graduated courses: Hydrological Modelling of Flow and Pollution in Dry Regions at the Jacob Blaustein International Center (BIC) for Desert Studies of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Her research interests are focused on the GIS (Geographic Information Systems) technology. She has experience on the development of GIS applications and DSS (Decision Support Systems) tools in the urban, industrial, tourist and environmental field; development of environmental applications based on GIS e GRID technologies; integration between GIS and environmental models (numerical and empirical). She held several short courses on GIS and has been tutor for several Stage, Master and Ph.D thesis.