OceanExpert ID: 34461
Dr. Pier Luigi BUTTIGIEG
Data Scientist, Digital Architect
Deep-sea ecology and technology
Quick Info
Work Location
Am Handelshafen 12
27570 Bremerhaven
Germany
Nationality
Malta
Email(s)
Profile URL
Persistent Digital Identifiers (UIDs)
ORCID: 0000-0002-4366-3088
Highest Degree
PhD
Job Type
Teaching/Education
Research
Data Management
Decision Making & Policy
Technical Advice & Consulting
Research
Data Management
Decision Making & Policy
Technical Advice & Consulting
Subject Area
Biological Oceanography, Marine Ecology
eDNA
Molecular Biology
eDNA
Molecular Biology
Activities
I'm a senior data scientist, digital architect, and strategist.
My thematic foci are in ocean and biodiversity data (especially microbiome and biomolecular data), as well as their societal links. I contribute to the steering, strategy, and operations of multiple regional and international research data infrastructures and Actions within and related to the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, including those addressing globally federated digital exchange and digital twinning. I also chair the Ocean Data and Information System Project of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO.
My additional focal areas include digital strategy and architecture development, interoperability approaches, semantic harmonisation, knowledge representation, and high-dimensional data analysis.
Sea regions of study
Arctic Ocean
North Atlantic Ocean
Southern Ocean
Global
North Atlantic Ocean
Southern Ocean
Global
Skills
Digital strategy development, data science, digital architecture Bioinformatics, Microbial Ecology, Multivariate Analysis,Semantics, Knowledge representation, Ontology, Linked Data
Working language(s)
English
Citation(s)
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GdOTbzoAAAAJ&hl=en
Other: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4366-3088
Other: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4366-3088
Website(s)
Created: 2018-07-02
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Last Updated: 2025-07-11
Group(s):
GOOS - Global Ocean Observing System
, GOOS Biology Ecosystems Panel
, IOC
, IODE Management Group
, IODE SG-OceanExpert
, IWG-contribution to the decade
, IWG-RRM - IWG to Enact a Rapid Response Mechanism for Emerging Issues
, IWG-SODIS
, MARCO-BOLO
, MARCO-BOLO CORE COP
, OBON
, OBON Governance
, OBON Group Admins
, OBPS - Ocean Best Practices System
, OBPS Task Team 21-03: Omics/eDNA Protocol Management
, ODIS Operations group
, OIH
, OIH- Technical WG
, OTGA course contributors (teachers - facilitators - contributors)
, PacMAN-SAB
, SG-Ocean Infohub
, SG-PacMAN