2017 Edition

Doina Cristina Duma (Female) is the leader of the Distributed Systems group at the INFN National Center (CNAF), providing the core operational support for the INFN-wide Grid infrastructure and for the CNAF Cloud infrastructure. The task of her group is also to investigate how to evolve the existing infrastructures to pursue increased resource efficiency in view of the progress in the underlying technologies.

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.

Professor Ronald Stolk is general director of the Center of Information Technology (CIT), the central IT organization of the University of Groningen.

He is also director Research Data & Biobanking at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) and professor of Clinical Epidemiology.

Gareth O'Neill is a PhD candidate in linguistics at Leiden University and works on the expression of emotions and cognitions in the Irish language. He is president of Eurodoc and represents the interests of 32 national associations of early-career researchers across Europe. He is particularly interested in science policy for early-career researchers and in improving the transition of early-career researchers to the non-academic labour market as well as the broad implementation of Open Science.

Dr Andrew Treloar is the Director of Technology for the Australian National Data Service (ANDS), with particular responsibility for technical challenges in creating national and international infrastructure, and for international engagement more broadly. In 2008 he led the project to establish ANDS.

Ian works in STFC's Scientific Computing department, leading the team managing a range of distributed computing services in the UK Tier 1 Centre, part of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG). 

His main professional interest is in how we evolve a distributed petascale compute and data infrastructure to meet the needs of the LHC and other science in the coming decades.

He is also actively involved in a range of outreach and education activities.

In LIBER, Valentino is responsible for the management of projects addressing Open Science, Scholarly Communication and Research Data Management issues, including Research Infrastructures, starting with EUDAT and the EOSCPilot.
His duties primarily concern the development and implementation of stakeholder engagement plans, advocacy and awareness raising activities.

Carlos Óscar Sánchez Sorzano is B.Sc. and M. Sc. Electrical Engineering with two specialities (Electronics and Networking, Univ. Málaga), B. Sc. Computer Science (Univ. Málaga), B.Sc. and M. Sc. in Mathematics, (speciality in Statistics, UNED), Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering (Univ. Politécnica de Madrid) and Ph. D. in Pharmacy (Univ. San Pablo-CEU). He served as secretary of the Dept.

Associate professor at Masaryk University and senior researcher at CESNET. Chairs the Czech national Grid infrastructure, lead or participated in many national and international projects related to high performance and distributed computing (Grids) and their applications. In 2007 served as chair of the Project Management Board of EGEE II, member of the EGEE III PMB representing Central Europe. Involved in EUAsiaGrid and member (CESNET team leader) of the EGI_DS project.

Yannis Ioannidis is the President and General Director of the “Athena” Research and Innovation Center as well as a Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. He holds a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, an MSc in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California-Berkeley.