Speakers & Panellists

A human geographer by training, Elly Dijk is senior policy officer at Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). DANS is the Netherlands institute for permanent access to digital research resources. At DANS she is coordinator of the national scholarly open access portal NARCIS (narcis.nl). She is currently project leader of EOSCpilot, OpenAIRE Advance and temporarily of EOSC Hub (November 2018 – May 2019) at DANS. She is, together with a colleague of the library of the Technical University Delft, the National Open Access Desk (NOAD) for OpenAIRE.

Natalia Manola is a research associate in the University of Athens, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications and the Athena Technology and Innovation Research Center. She holds a Physics degree from the University of Athens, and an MS in Electrical and Computing Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She has several years of employment as a Software Engineer and Architect employed in the Bioinformatics sector. From 2009 she has served as the

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.