Panellist

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.

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.

Doina Cristina Duma (Female) is the leader of the Distributed Systems group at the INFN National Center (CNAF), providing the core operational support for the INFN-wide Grid infrastructure and for the CNAF Cloud infrastructure. The task of her group is also to investigate how to evolve the existing infrastructures to pursue increased resource efficiency in view of the progress in the underlying technologies.

After a molecular Cell biology BSc and a Bioinformatics MSc, he started working on polyploidy in plants, developing bioinformatics methods to study duplicated gene evolution. At the Earlham Institute he is working on CyVerse UK, a worldwide project to make supercomputing resources easily accessible to all researchers. PhD defense is planned for late 2017.

Professor Ronald Stolk is general director of the Center of Information Technology (CIT), the central IT organization of the University of Groningen.

He is also director Research Data & Biobanking at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) and professor of Clinical Epidemiology.

Gareth O'Neill is a PhD candidate in linguistics at Leiden University and works on the expression of emotions and cognitions in the Irish language. He is president of Eurodoc and represents the interests of 32 national associations of early-career researchers across Europe. He is particularly interested in science policy for early-career researchers and in improving the transition of early-career researchers to the non-academic labour market as well as the broad implementation of Open Science.

Dr Andrew Treloar is the Director of Technology for the Australian National Data Service (ANDS), with particular responsibility for technical challenges in creating national and international infrastructure, and for international engagement more broadly. In 2008 he led the project to establish ANDS.

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.