Speakers & Panellists

20 Nov 2018

Alastair Dunning

Alastair runs 4TU.ResearchData, the data archive for the technical sciences on behalf of the 4 technical universities in the Netherlands, and is also head of the Research Data Services within  TU Delft.

His (current) biggest challenge is persuading researchers of the benefits of research data – a task that not only requires knowledge of research processes, but realises the importance of building trust and good relationships.

Previously, Alastair has worked for the cultural heritage innovators Europeana, and for JISC, the UK’s shared service for ICT in education

 

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22 Nov 2018

Sarah Jones

Sarah Jones is Associate Director at the Digital Curation Centre, a service to support the higher education sector with research data management. She coordinates work on the DCC’s Data Management Planning tool - DMPonline - and undertakes research on data policy and data management planning. She has written several articles and book chapters on these topics, and co-edited Delivering Research Data Management Services: fundamentals of good practice.

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15 Nov 2018

Achim Streit

Prof. Dr. Achim Streit is the director of the Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC) and professor for computer science at KIT since mid-2010. He is responsible for the Big Data and e-infrastructure activities at SCC – both hardware and software as well as R&D activities. He is coordinating the Helmholtz Data Federation (HDF) – the first generic federated data infrastructure in Germany – and co-coordinating the Helmholtz Analytics Framework (HAF) R&D project.

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20 Nov 2018

Frédéric Huynh

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.

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15 Nov 2018

Jennifer Edmond

Dr Jennifer Edmond is Associate Professor of Trinity College Dublin and the co-director of the Trinity Center for Digital Humanities. She holds a PhD in Germanic Languages and Literatures from Yale University, and applies her training as a scholar of language, narrative and culture to the study and promotion of advanced methods in and infrastructures for the arts and humanities.

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20 Nov 2018

Ghita

Responsible of  International and European collaborations  team  at CC-IN2P3/CNRS.After her doctorat ès sciences in physics at Paris XI University in France and fellowships at CERN, she has participated into  the commissioning of the D0 experiment at Fermilab with University of Stony Brook (USA) and  joined  later ETH Zürich (Switzerland) and  CERN as research physicist. She participated in the L3 experiment at LEP where her interests where on heavy flavours, B and Tau lifetimes, B tagging for Higgs discovery.

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21 Nov 2018

Jean-Claude Burgelman

Jean-Claude Burgelman is responsible for open science and data policies of DG Research and Innovation. He joined the European Commission in 1999 as a Visiting Scientist in the Joint Research Centre (the Institute of Prospective Technological Studies - IPTS), where he became Head of the Information Society Unit in 2005. In January 2008, he moved to the Bureau of European Policy Advisers (attached to the president of the EC) as adviser for innovation policy.

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15 Nov 2018

Lothar Wolf

Lothar Wolf was with the German National Meteorological Service (DWD) and the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading (UK) and since 2004 he is with the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites. As Competence Area Manager for Data Services he is responsible for the definition of the medium and long term EUMETSAT Data Services Strategy including the specification of the related corporate service portfolio and managing its evolution via a programme of related projects.

 

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20 Nov 2018

Arjen van Rijn

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.

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