Panellist

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’).

Dr. Johannes Keizer has more than 20 years of experience in the in the development of complex Information Management Systems.

Rafael C. Jimenez is Chief Technical Officer of ELIXIR (the European life-sciences Infrastructure for biological Information). He is a biologist and a computer scientist specialised in the coordination and management of Bioinformatics services. Interested in topics related to infrastructure, visualisation and data federation.

Ivo Grigorov holds a PhD in Marine Science, currently managing a portfolio of marine research projects at Denmark`s National Institute of Aquatic Resources at DTU. He advocates for applying Ocean Literacy and Open Science principles to marine & climate research, for both individual career benefit as well as institutional visibility and impact.