Speakers & Panellists

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.

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.

Inge Van Nieuwerburgh is co-ordinator scholarly communication at Ghent University. Open access to research publications, (open) research data management and other open science themes are at the core of her interests. She is one of the open access advocates behind Open Access Belgium and supports policy development and support and training through different national and international working groups and expert groups. Some buzz words in Inge’s CV are OpenAIRE, copyright reform, literacy and SA&S.