2017 Edition

Donatella Castelli is a Research Director at Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie della Informazione  “A. Faedo” of the Italian National Research Council (CNR-ISTI). She has been the principal investigator of several European and International funded projects on digital libraries and data e-Infrastructures acquiring considerable experience in these domains. Currently, she is the principal investigator of the EU H2020 BlueBRIDGE project.

Alessandro joined the SIRIS LAB R&D Division of SIRIS Academic SL in 2014, in Barcelona. Alessandro's main research interests include disciplinary, as well as, transdisciplinary studies. Since 2010 to 2013, I have been an Assistant Professor in the KRDB Research Centre, at the Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy).

Professor John Womersley began work as Director General of the European Spallation Source ERIC on November 1, 2016.

He previously held the position of Chief Executive of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), the United Kingdom's funding agency for large-scale science facilities and national laboratories, particle physics, nuclear physics and astronomy. He led the UK’s membership of the European XFEL, ESS, and the SKA telescope project, and established the Hartree Centre as a £300m joint project with IBM.

Antonio Rosato, born in 1971, graduated in Chemistry in 1995 (110/110 cum laude), and received his PhD in Chemistry in 1998 at the University of Florence. Ricercatore at the University of Florence from 1999 to 2002, Associate Professor at the University of Florence, Faculty of Sciences, since 2002. He has received the "Premio Nazionale Federchimica" in 1996, the Prize "Sapio NMR Junior" in 2001 and the Prizes "Gastone De Santis" and "Raffaello Nasini", both from the Italian Chemical Society, in 2005 and 2009 respectively. Metalloproteins are the main focus of his research activities.

Andreas Rietbrock graduated from the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany, with a Doctorate in Geophysics in 1996, working in the field of earthquake seismology. Subsequently he spent two years at Free University of Berlin, Germany, where his long-standing research interest in subduction zone earthquakes began.  He then moved to the University of Kyoto, Japan, as a JSPS fellow working with the research group at the Disaster Prevention Centre on Seismic Hazard issues. In 1999 he took up the position as Assistant Professor at the University of Potsdam working on the Chilean subduction zone and seismic hazard.

Data Librarian and Head, Research Data Support at University of Edinburgh Information Services Group

Robin leads Research Data Support section in EDINA and Data Library, Information Services, University of Edinburgh and 'service owner' of cross-sectional Research Data Service, contributing to Edinburgh DataShare, MANTRA, Research Data Management and Sharing MOOC, Data Library & Consultancy, as well as general RDM support.

Nanda Piersma is researcher data science and lecturer applied mathematics at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. She is the head of the Urban Analytics research group of the Faculty of Technology of the Amsterdam University of Applied Science, initiator of the minor Big Data in Urban Technology and the thesis lab Data Science of the Faculty of Technology.

Full astronomer (Astronomo Ordinario) at INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste since 2001.
Head of the European HST archive at ST-ECF/ESO (1989-92), PI of the archives at the TNG (1994-98), Co-I of the LBC instrument (1998-2006), Data Processing Centre Manager for Planck-LFI (1998-2005), PI of the DRACO project (2003-05). Since 2004, he has been the Italian coordinator of Virtual Observatory activities also in VO-related projects (VO-Tech, EuroVO-DCA, EuroVO-ICE and CoSADIE), funded within the EU Sixth and Seventh Framework Programmes.

Barend Mons is a molecular biologist by training (PhD Leiden University 1986). He spent over 15 years inmalaria research in close collaboration with endemic countries. After that he gained experience in computer-assisted knowledge discovery, which is still his research focus. He spent time with the European Commission as a Seconded National Expert with the INCO- DC programme (1993-1996) and with the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO 1966-1999). Barend also co -founded several spin off companies.

Werner is Director General of the Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS), a European Research Infrastructure. ICOS is an ESFRI Research Infrastructure and currently in the Step 2 procedure of the ERIC application. As DG he is currently managing the final internal integration of ICOS. In this work I focus on optimizing the internal data workflow between the different observational programs of ICOS and developing the data platform of ICOS (‘Carbon Portal’).