**Meet the editor**

Danilo Godone holds a PhD degree in "Agriculture, Forest, and Food Sciences"; his doctorate topic was cryosphere's phenomena monitoring by geomatic methodologies. Currently, he is a Postdoc grant holder, at Geohazard Monitoring Group (CNR IRPI), studying geomatic contribution in natural hazard monitoring and analysis. His main research interests are landslides, glaciers, and,

more generally, natural disasters. During his activities, he has developed skills in GIS, also by developing customized tools by R programming, and land surveying with GPS or laser scanners. He is a member of NATRISK-Research Centre on Natural Risks in Mountain and Hilly Environments, in Turin University. He acts as a freelance consultant, in the same topics, for other research bodies, training agencies, and professionals, too.
