2017 Edition

Mark van de Sanden is the team leader of the Data Services Group at SURFsara, the Dutch national HPC center. After receiving his BSc in computer engineering from the technical college’s Hertogenbosch in 1994, he started working at the National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR).

Jorge-A. Sanchez-P. holds Dipl.-Ing. & Dr.-Ing. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering (NTUA) and a Master's Certification in Professional Program & Project Management.

Damien Lecarpentier is a Director at CSC, the Finnish IT Center for Science, and currently manages the EUDAT initiative (www.eudat.eu) which aims to build a pan-European sustainable, cross-disciplinary and cross-national data infrastructure providing a set of shared services to access and preserve research data. Damien has an MA in Political Science and a PhD in Social Sciences from the Advanced School of Social Sciences in Paris.

Jan Bot is working as community manager at SURFsara where he is responsible for the outreach activities of the Dutch National Infrastructure. He is also the Dutch liaison for EGI related activities and a member of the EUDAT 'Scientific Communities Environments and Requirements' team. Before joining SURFsara Jan worked on a variety of bioinformatics projects for different Dutch universities.

Andrew Smith is a senior external relations o¬ cer at ELIXIR, he joined in 2011. Andy manages ELIXIR’s engagement with Member States, supporting new countries in joining. He also leads on ELIXIR’s engagement with the EU institutions and the ESFRI process in general. Andy is responsible for developing ELIXIR’s industry strategy and runs the ELIXIR Innovation SME support programme.

Director of the Computer Centre (1996-2001) and from 2002 to 2012 Director of the Department of Chemistry of the University of Perugia.

Silvana Muscella is CEO & founder of the SME Trust-IT Services, an SME providing international marketing & research specialised in fostering ICT solutions globally and across Europe and co-founder of COMMPLA, a boutique software house that delivers multichannel software solutions to commercial clients. She tackles high-level strategy building, business acquisition, coordination and strategic marketing and communication developments in ICT, namely in building cloud computing tools & services & cybersecurity, ICT in energy efficiency.

Lucy comes from Birmingham, UK, where her interest in spatial ecology began with work on green corridors for the local Wildlife Trust. After studying Zoology at Nottingham University, she gained a Masters’ in GIS and a PhD on metapopulation and source-sink dynamics of plant species in the urban habitat mosaic. Her postdoctoral work on the EU FP5 FLIERS project focussed on fuzzy classification of vegetation communities from remote sensing and the efficient visualization of this uncertain information.

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. Filter has a diploma in biochemistry. He has experience in bioinformatics, cheminformatics, software development, data mining and QMRA modeling. He has more than 10 years of experience as a project manager in public and private sector organizations. Dr. Filter's current position is senior research scientist, unit Epidemiology and Zoonoses, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Germany. His specific interest is development of community resources to increase food safety and security.