2017 Edition

Stephan Kuster is Acting Director of Science Europe. He is responsible for the coordination of all policy activities of Science Europe, including the development of common activities, positions and approaches by the Science Europe Member Organisations on policy areas such as the European Research Area, EU and national research funding, Open Access and Open Science, Cross-Border Research Collaboration, Gender and Diversity issues in research, Research Infrastructures and Research Careers and Mobility.

Dr. Johannes Keizer has more than 20 years of experience in the in the development of complex Information Management Systems.

Rafael C. Jimenez is Chief Technical Officer of ELIXIR (the European life-sciences Infrastructure for biological Information). He is a biologist and a computer scientist specialised in the coordination and management of Bioinformatics services. Interested in topics related to infrastructure, visualisation and data federation.

Ivo Grigorov holds a PhD in Marine Science, currently managing a portfolio of marine research projects at Denmark`s National Institute of Aquatic Resources at DTU. He advocates for applying Ocean Literacy and Open Science principles to marine & climate research, for both individual career benefit as well as institutional visibility and impact.

Licia Florio joined GEANT (former TERENA) in 2001, as a Project Development Officer to support TERENA's activities and contribute to technical projects. Licia’s primary area of work focuses on Identity and Trust.

Achille Felicetti is a senior researcher at the VAST-LAB at PIN, Prato. He has a degree in Archaeology and a diploma in computer programming. He has coordinated several work-packages and development teams for the application of semantic tools to archaeological data, such as those developed in the EPOCH COINS and 3D-COFORM project. He coordinated the development of the ARIADNE semantic platform, the portal for the interoperability of archaeological information.

Jos has worked in Netherlands and Germany as system engineer, team lead and researcher. Currently he is consultant at SURFsara in Amsterdam and heads the data preservation and data management groups. Previously he contributed to EGI, EUDAT, EUDAT2020, ELITRANS and WLCG, and managed the LSDF and bwdataArchive projects at KIT. He studied biology and computer science and graduated from the University of Amsterdam.

Shaun de Witt is an expert in federated data management within the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) in the UK. He has previously worked on a number of federated and distributed data management projects including the Worldwide LGC Computing Grid (WLCG) and the NASA Mission To Planet Earth program. He is currently leading the EUDAT work package investigating Scalability and Data PreservationShaun de Witt is an expert in federated data management within the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) in the UK.

Laurent Crouzet is Scientific advisor for HPC and digital infrastructures at the French ministry for higher education, research & innovation.