Marco has been an OSGeo Charter Member since 2015. He currently works as a Scientific Project Officer at the European Commission – Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy, supporting policies on geospatial data sharing/interoperability as well as the implementation of the INSPIRE Directive . He is a researcher, educator and advocate on open source software and open data. Since 2022 he is the Chair of ISPRS Intercommission Working Group "Open innovation in Geospatial science and Remote Sensing" .

He is a regular participant and presenter at global and local FOSS4G events. He was the Secretary of FOSS4G Europe 2015 , a member of the Local Organising Team of FOSS4G 2022 and a Co-chair of the Academic Track at FOSS4G 2022 and FOSS4G 2023 .