Chair

Thomas Zastrow received a PhD in computational linguistics at the University of Tübingen. He was working for digital infrastructure projects CLARIN-D and EUDAT. Since 2013, he is working as senior data scientist at the Max Planck Computing and Data Facility in Garching (MPCDF). He is member of the data group at MPCDF and involved in internal and external data driven projects. In the Research Data Alliance (RDA) he was co-chairing a working group (Research Data Collections).

Thomas Zastrow received a PhD in computational linguistics at the University of Tübingen. He was working for digital infrastructure projects CLARIN-D and EUDAT. Since 2013, he is working as senior data scientist at the Max Planck Computing and Data Facility in Garching (MPCDF). He is member of the data group at MPCDF and involved in internal and external data driven projects. In the Research Data Alliance (RDA) he was co-chairing a working group (Research Data Collections).

Ilaria Fava works at the Göttingen State and University Library as a Project Officer for EOSCpilot, OpenAIRE and RDA EU 4.0. Librarian by training, she's fascinated by Open Science and its potential to foster research and knowledge sharing.

Sessions

Thursday, November 22, 2018 - 11:00 - Pl Second workshop for Scientific Communities & Users meet the service providers: a discussion on needs and opportunities to define the EOSC service roadmap - Chair

Leonardo Candela is researcher at Networked Multimedia Information Systems (NeMIS) Laboratory of the National Research Council of Italy - Institute of Information Science and Technologies (CNR - ISTI). He graduated in Computer Science at University of Pisa and completed a PhD in Information Engineering at University of Pisa. 

Yannick is the director of the EGI Foundation since February 2014. He was formerly a senior research engineer at the French National Scientific Research Centre – Grid and Cloud Institute (CNRS-IdGC). He holds a Master of Science in Information Technology (MScIT) and a degree in Law (LL.L).

Manolis is an associate researcher at the Institute for the Management of Information Systems (IMIS) of the Research and Innovation Centre in Information, Communication and Knowledge Technologies "Athena". His main research interests lie in the areas of Privacy Preservation and Big Data management. He is also interested in the management of spatiotemporal data, query processing and indexing for containment queries. He is managing two related projects in IMIS: MEDA, which focuses on big data management and MoDiSSENSE, which deals with location based social networks.

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.

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.