Speakers & Panellists

Prof. Franco Niccolucci: director of VAST-LAB at PIN, was professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Florence until 2008, and later the director of the Science and Technology in Archaeology Research Center of the Cyprus Institute in Nicosia. With a degree in Mathematics, he started working on Cultural Heritage applications in 1996. Since then he has been the scientific coordinator of a number of EU-funded projects. He is currently the coordinator of ARIADNE and PARTHENOS. Within EOSCpilot, he is the PI of the TEXTCROWD Science Demonstrator.

Philippe Segers Head of European High Performance Computing (HPC) projects for GENCI, the French HPC agency, where he manage the contribution of the French partners (CEA/CNRS/University and Inria) to the PRACE projects, member of PRACE Technical Board and Management Board, and he was work-package leader of the PRACE Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) on “Whole System Design for Energy Efficient HPC” (procurement of R&D for Finish, French, German, Italian and UK partners).

Researcher and technology leader in the fields of cancer genomics, bioinformatics, distributed systems, and cloud computing. Currently at EMBL, Heidelberg, he has over 15 years of industry experience in leading the development of globally distributed large-scale enterprise information systems in domains as diverse as Governance, Risk, and Compliance, Operations Management, and e-commerce, at companies like Amazon.com.

Gareth O'Neill [https://twitter.com/gtoneill] is a doctoral candidate in linguistics at Leiden University and is president of the European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers (Eurodoc) [http://eurodoc.net/]. He is interested in science policy for researchers and in improving the broad implementation and skills training of Open Science across Europe.