Speakers & Panellists

Stephan Kuster is Acting Director of Science Europe. He is responsible for the coordination of all policy activities of Science Europe, including the development of common activities, positions and approaches by the Science Europe Member Organisations on policy areas such as the European Research Area, EU and national research funding, Open Access and Open Science, Cross-Border Research Collaboration, Gender and Diversity issues in research, Research Infrastructures and Research Careers and Mobility.

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.

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).

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.