DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURES FOR RESEARCH - Key Persons
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- Member of the Program Committee
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- Leader of the Helix Nebula
Bob Jones is a leader of the Helix Nebula initiative (http://www.helix-nebula.eu/), a public private partnership to explore the use of commercial cloud services for science applications. He is the coordinator for the HNSciCloud Horizon 2020 Pre-Commercial Procurement project (http://www.hnscicloud.eu/) which is procuring innovative cloud services to establish a cloud platform the European research community. HNSciCloud builds on the results of the Procurement Innovation for Cloud Service in Europe (PICSE http://www.picse.eu/) project that raised awareness of procurement of cloud services for the public sector. Bob also participates in the EIROforum IT Working Group (http://www.eiroforum.org/) and is the editor of the recently published series of e-infrastructure documents (http://zenodo.org/record/7592). Bob was until recently the head of the CERN openlab project (openlab.cern.ch) which is a unique public-private partnership between CERN and leading ICT companies. Its mission is to accelerate the development of cutting-edge solutions to be used by the worldwide Large Hadron Collider (LHC) community. His experience in the distributed computing arena includes mandates as the technical director and then project director of the EGEE projects (2004-2010) which led to the creation of EGI (http://www.egi.eu/).
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Damien Lecarpentier has an MA in Political Science and PhD in Social Sciences from the Advanced School of Social Sciences in Paris. He joined CSC as coordinator for international activities in January 2009. He has been involved as work package and task leader in policy work and outreach activities in major FP7-funded projects in the areas of grids (EGI_DS), HPC (DEISA2, PRACE, EESI) and e-Infrastructure policy (e-IRGSP2, e-Infranet).
He is currently managing the EUDAT project (www.eudat.eu) which aims to build a sustainable cross-disciplinary and cross-national data infrastructure providing a set of shared services to access and preserve research data.
David Foster holds the degree of BSc in Applied Physics and Electronics from the University of Durham and graduated with a PhD from the Faculty of Science.
He initially took up a fellowship position in the Data Handling Division at CERN working on compiler technologies for embedded systems. After specialising in the management of distributed systems and provisioning of desktop services he obtained an MBA at Durham University Business School.
Following the responsibility for the implementation of the international networking solutions for the LHC, and management as the deputy head of the Information Technology Department, he obtained the degree of Master of Laws in Information Technology at the University of Edinburgh. He was awarded the degree of LLM with Distinction in 2015.
Since 2016 he has been working in the area of Privacy and Data Protection at CERN.
David Foster is a chartered physicist, a fellow of the institute of physics and a member of the chartered institute of management.
Dr David Kelsey is head of particle physics computing at STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. He has been leading many Grid Security activities since 2001 including EU DataGrid, EGEE, EGI-InSPIRE, EGI-Engage, GridPP and WLCG. He has an equally long track record in federated identity management as the founder and leader of the EU Certificate Authority Coordination Group in 2000, a group that became EUGridPMA in 2004 and led to the formation of IGTF. Kelsey has been an active member of the FIM4R group collecting and documenting the research community requirements for federated identity management and has striven to establish trust between e-Infrastructure operational security teams, the identity federations and with IT infrastructures worldwide, as the founder and leader of the Security for Collaborating Infrastructures (SCI) activity. Kelsey is chair of the SCIV2 working group of WISE. Kelsey has a PhD in experimental particle physics.
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- Head of Digital Scholarship at the British Library
Dr. Adam Farquhar is Head of Digital Scholarship at the British Library (http://www.bl.uk/people/experts/adam-farquhar), where he and his team focus on establishing services for researchers that take full advantage of the possibilities that digital collections and data present across all formats and subjects.
He is principle investigator for the British Library Labs; co-ordinates the THOR project that will provide seamless identifier services for researchers and data; member of the International Image Interoperability (IIIF) Consortium executive committee; Director of the Endangered Archives Programme that works with teams around the globe to preserve archival material that is in danger of destruction, neglect or physical deterioration; President and co-founder of DataCite, an international association dedicated to making it easier to identify, cite, and reuse scientific data; and founder and Board member of the Open Preservation Foundation.
He has been responsible for the Library's maps, newspaper, photographic, audio and moving image collections. Before joining the Library, he was the principle knowledge management architect for Schlumberger and research scientist at the Stanford Knowledge Systems Laboratory.
Dr. Yin Chen (F), holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics. Her research focused on large-scale scientific data and metadata management, distributed data e-infrastructure, cloud/grid computing and research infrastructures. She is a Senior Technology Outreach Expert in EGI foundation, and is working in ENVRIplus and INDIGO-DataCloud projects. Before she joined EGI, Yin worked at ENVRI, where she led the development of the ENVRI Reference Model. Yin has worked for a number of research institutions in the UK, including Cardiff University, Edinburgh University, UK National e-Science Center, EDINA, and the UK Medical Research Council. She has also worked as a system analysis and design expert in the software industry in Japan.
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- Member of the Program Committee
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- Member of the Programme Committee
- Programme Committee Chair
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Executive director
Franciska de Jong is Executive Director of CLARIN ERIC (www.clarin.eu). She leads the expansion and sustainability of CLARIN, the outreach to new research communities, and the promotion of collaboration with non-academic partners within and beyond Europe. At the University of Utrecht she is professor of e-research for the humanities.
She studied Dutch language and literature at Utrecht University, did a PhD track in theoretical linguistics and made the switch to language technology in 1985 when she started working on machine translation at Philips Research. She has been professor of language technology at the Universiteit Twente (UT) since 1992, and is director of the Erasmus Studio for e-research at the Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (EUR).
Currently her main research interests are in multimedia indexing, spoken document retrieval, text mining, access technology for digital libraries, interview archives and cultural heritage collections, and e-research in general. She is frequently involved in international programme committees, expert groups and review panels, and has initiated a number of projects funded within the EU framework programmes. Since 2008 she has been vice-president of the governing board of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).
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- Member of the Organizing Committee
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- Member of the Program Committee
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- Member of the Organizing Committee
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- Member of the Program Committee
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- Member of the Program Committee
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- Member of the Organizing Committee
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- Member of the Organizing Committee
Leslie McIntosh, PhD, MPH is an assistant professor and serves as the Director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM) and the Director of the Biomedical Informatics Core for the Siteman Cancer Center and the Institute for Clinical and Translational Sciences at WUSM, overseeing 25 individuals providing informatics research, service, infrastructure, and operational support. She has over 15 years of training experience in various information systems. In the past few years, she has presented talks, developed curriculums, and delivered trainings in health data and information management including best practices in data management, electronic clinical research form creation, and implementing multiple software applications for biomedical informatics. Recently, her presentations have focused on moving data to information through visualisation using the principles and tools of the Grammar of Graphics, d3, ggplot2, ggvis, and rCharts as well as reproducing research in biomedical informatics. Dr. McIntosh is a founding organizer for the St. Louis Machine Learning and Data Science and Health Information Meetups. She also developed and taught an Introductory and Advanced courses in Health Data and Information Management and is a chair of the Data Translation Group at Washington University in St. Louis.
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- Member of the Organizing Committee
- Member of the Program Committee
- Programme Manager
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- Member of the Program Committee
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- Member of the Program Committee
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- Member of the Program Committee
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- Member of the Organizing Committee
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- Project Manager
Sara Garavelli is a Project Manager and Project Management Officer at Trust-IT Services, a UK SME specialised in analysing and communicating Information and Communication Technologies across Europe and globally.
Sara is currently the Outreach Manager for the BlueBRIDGE EU-funded project, Building Research environments fostering Innovation, Decision-making, Governance, and Education for Blue Growth.
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- Community Manager for Research at SUR
Sylvia Agnes Kuijpers is a community manager for research at SURFnet and the project lead of the Enlighten Your Research Program. At SURFnet, she is involved in research engagement for the Dutch research community in collaboration with SURF and the SURF organizations SURFsara and the Netherlands eScience Center. Previously she has worked at Utrecht University as a PhD Candidate on cancer research.
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- Technical Director at EGI.Eu
Tiziana is Technical Director at EGI.eu since October 2013 and Technical Coordiantor of the H2020 EGI flagship project funded by the EC: EGI-Engage. She was responsible for the direction of the EGI-InSPIRE project and was former Chief Operations Officer taking care of the operations coordination of EGI. She is a promoter of the Open Science Commons and participated in the definition of the EGI governance and service portfolio in the framework of the EGI_DS project. She has been involved in grid operations since 2007 contributing to the coordination of operations for the Italian Grid infrastructure. Tiziana holds a PhD in Electronics and Data Communications Engineering from the Universita' degli Studi in Bologna.
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- Member of the Program Committee