Massimiliano Drudi is a Researcher at Regional Ocean Forecasting System (ROFS) division of CMCC Foundation, where he leads the research unit “Research to Operations”. He holds a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science Engineering and holds a master degree in Scientific Computing. He works on the development of the Mediterranean Sea Monitoring and Forecasting Centre (Med-MFC, in the EU Copernicus Marine Service), and related applications for the environment protection. His contribution scopes from the development of methodologies and best practices, to the development of distributed infrastructures for the numerical experiments and data analytics. From 2006 he is working in the field of operational oceanography, and from 2009 to 2015 he has been Service Manager Responsible of the Med-MFC in the EU projects MyOcean, MyOcean2 and MyOcean Follow-On. From 2018 he is the responsible of the Med-Phys Production Unit of the Med-MFC. From 2013 to 2016, in MELODIES EU project, he developed algorithms to compute MSFD indicators and assess the good environmental status. From 2019 to 2023, in Blue-Cloud EU project, he is contributing to the development of Decision Support Systems for the marine environment protection (UN SDG13/14 and UN Ocean Decade programme).