Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, PlanetWatch

Claudio is the CEO and Cofounder of PlanetWatch, which is building a global decentralized environmental data ecosystem by leveraging Web3 technologies and communities.

Claudio holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics. He is a former research physicist, international consultant and manager @CERN, Geneva. An Italian national, he has lived and worked in the US as well as in several European countries. In 2012 he cofounded Terabee, a French startup developing innovative 3D sensing solutions. In 2016, Claudio started getting involved in the blockchain ecosystem. In 2017 he led a project delivering the first NFT standard for the EOS blockchain. Finally, in 2019 he got the idea underpinning PlanetWatch, by blending his passions for the environment, citizen science and advanced technologies. PlanetWatch has since become the only company in the blockchain ecosystem to be an official CERN Spin-Off. The company is often featured in CERN Knowledge Transfer reports and environmental publications.