Speakers & Panellists

Vanessa Hannesschläger completed her studies in German Language and Literature at the University of Vienna with a diploma thesis on Peter Handke. She gained experience in working with archival material in a digital context in online projects on Peter Handke and Ernst Jandl, which inspired her interest in standardization and preservation of (meta)data, digitization processes, and the semantic web’s potential benefits for the arts and humanities.

Frédéric Huynh (M) is director of the Earth system Research Infrastructure (34 partners : CNRS, CNES, IFREMER, IRD, IRSTEA, Météo-France ..., 4 thematic poles : ocean, atmosphere, solid earth and continental surfaces, 20 Data and services Centers, more than 350 persons, 39M€/year, French Road Map) since 2017. He was IRD Director for Brasil (2012-2016), director of UMR ESPACE-DEV (2001-2012) and co-director of the Remote Sensing Centre (Maison de la Télédétection) in Montpellier.

Arjen van Rijn is institute manager and deputy director of the Dutch National Institute for subatomic Physics (Nikhef) since 1999. Through the Nikhef activities in networking and distributed computing, and in particular through his role as project leader of the Dutch BiG Grid project (2007-2012), he became involved in the development of the national e-infrastructure, coordinated by SURF. He was one of the founders of EGI.eu (European Grid Infrastructure) and member of its Executive Board in the years 2010 - 2014.

Rupert Lueck is in charge of EMBL IT Services who provide the IT infrastructure, services and support around large-scale scientific computing, data management and clouds including software development and administrative IT to enable data-driven Digital Biology research in EMBL.
Rupert has a key role across a range of the laboratory’s international IT collaborations. He serves on several IT advisory boards and represents EMBL in the EIROforum IT group involving the IT leadership of some of Europe’s biggest research centres.