2018 Edition

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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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.

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.

He has been strongly involved in all ILL projects regarding data policy, data management and related services since 2008. He has gained experience and international contacts due to his dedicated involvement in the previous EU projects (PANData-Europe, PANData-ODI, CRISP, …). He will now be in charge of the collaboration with the e-Infrastructure inside the PaNOSC project in order to jointly build EOSC and make it effective for the scientific communities.

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Dr. Petr Knoth leads the KMI’s Big Scientific Data and Text Analytics group. He is the founder, product and team leader for CORE, which is a service that aggregates millions of open access articles from around the world and makes them available for people to search and machines to text-mine. Previously, he worked as a Senior Data Scientist at Mendeley on information extraction and content recommendation for research. He has a deep interest in the use of AI to improve research workflows.

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.

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.

Francoise Genova has been the director of the Strasbourg astronomical data centre CDS from 1995 to 2015, and one of the founding parents of the astronomical Virtual Observatory. The Virtual Observatory is an ecosystem of standards and tools enabling seamless access to the wealth of on-line astronomical resources.