Lautaro
Matas is Technical Manager at LA Referencia, the federated open science network of Latin America and Spain. He previously served as Executive and Technical Director (2020–2025) and has led the development of the LA Referencia platform.
He
studied Computer Science at the University of Buenos Aires and has over two decades of experience working at the intersection of scholarly communication, open science infrastructure, and information systems. His previous roles include work with Centro REDES,
RICYT, and CAICYT-CONICET, where he coordinated the implementation of SciELO Argentina and led the development of tools for patent analysis and strategic intelligence.
Between
2009 and 2019, he contributed to the Ibero-American Observatory of Science, Technology and Society (OEI), where he coordinated and developed the Intelligo platform—an open discovery system for repositories and patent data based on natural language processing
and machine learning.
His
current work focuses on federated infrastructure for open science, metadata aggregation, persistent identifiers, multilingual discovery, and the application of AI and decentralized technologies to improve global access to knowledge.
