Speakers & Panellists

Prodromos is the Head of Digital Development at the Onassis Cultural Centre and a Senior Research Fellow at The Media Institute at University College London (UCL)/ BBC. Prodromos has worked for the National Hellenic Research Foundation (National Documentation Centre), the European Commission, Oxford and Oslo Universities, the Athens University of Economics and Business and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He read law and Information Systems in Athens and London and holds a PhD in Law and Information Systems from the LSE.

Dr Per Öster is Director at CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd, Finland. Dr Öster is leading the Research Infrastructures unit responsible for CSC’s and Finland’s involvement in major research infrastructures, einfrastructures and related initiatives such as PRACE, EGI, EUDAT, ELIXIR, and the Research Data Alliance. Dr Öster joined CSC as director in 2007 and has also been heading the company’s activities in supercomputing and distributed computing, scientific application support, HPC support, and scientific software engineering.

Stefan Hanslik, Ph.D., Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research , Head of Unit Technical Science. Delegate: Euratom Programme Committee (‘Fission’ configuration), OECD-Working Party on Biotechnology, Council of ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility), High Level Group of EU Member States and Associated Countries on Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies and Advanced Materials. Expert: PC-NMPB (=Nanotechnologies, Advanced materials, Biotechnology, Advanced manufacturing and processing), PC-Research Infrastructures, member of the ERC-FET-MSCA Programme Committee.

Astrid’s career began as a researcher at the Institute for Dutch History and as a product manager at Sdu Publishers. From 2001 onwards, Astrid worked at the National Library of the Netherlands. She was involved in projects and programs concerning mass digitisation, digital preservation and digital libraries. She headed the Digitisation Department (2009-2010) and the IT Department (2012-2014). Until May 2017 she was head of the Innovative Projects Department when she joined LIBER.