Luca Foppiano is a research engineer and the founder of ScienciaLAB, an independent consultancy specialising in scientific text mining and research infrastructure, based in Aveiro, Portugal. He is a core maintainer of GROBID and its surrounding ecosystem, including grobid-quantities, biblio-glutton and DeLFT, open-source tools used widely across digital libraries, publishers and research institutions to turn scholarly PDFs into structured, machine-readable data.
He is collaborating with Inria and DFKI. He also works with the Common Crawl Foundation, where he contributes to the crawler and data-processing pipeline behind one of the largest open web corpora and the web graph releases.