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System Engineer - Ethiopian Education and Research Network
Marina Adomeit is working with SUNET where she is T&I project manager with focus on international projects and T&I services. She has been working since 2006 in the NREN community, with long experience participating in GÉANT projects in tasks related to AAI where she currently leads the Trust and Identity Work Package in GN5-1. Marina has been working within international projects such as Seamless Access Consortium, Puhuri AAI infrastructure for access to EuroHPC LUMI supercomputer and others.
Deputy To Manager and Commissioner of Open Government and ICT for strategic planning of ICT and resources at Rovira i Virgili University (Digital Strategist)
Member of the eIDAS Toolbox Process Expert Group (EUDI Wallet)
Convenor Educational credentials use case at EBP (EBSI)
Convenor Educational credentials and professional qualifications use case at eIDAS ToolBox Process
Member of the OOTS & EUDI Wallet Synergies and Interoperability Contact Group
DC4EU Educational credentials and Professional qualifications WP leader
REUNA technology manager. He has contributed for more than a decade to the development of the Chilean academic network, leading the implementation of new services and the growth of infrastructure. A network engineer by profession and with a Master's in Engineering, he specializes in the fields of routing, switching and optical networks.
Since 2020: Project Manager for Implementation of Cloud Services in Teaching at Frankfurt University
Enzo is the Head of the Research Engagement and Support Team in GÉANT, in charge of providing user support for pan-European and international scientific groups and collaborations, and of the Science and Research engagement activities. With a background in computer science and networking, his previous positions were network architect and manager with the Department of Physics of the University of Naples, in charge of the computing for physics experiments, and Technical Associate to the ATLAS experiment collaboration at CERN and to the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN).
Renata Castelo-Branco is a master’s graduate in Architecture from Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal. She is currently working as an early-stage researcher at INESC-ID, a research and development institute in Lisbon, in the context of her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering. Her research focuses on representation methods for algorithmic design, i.e., the creation of architectural designs through algorithms, with the goal of facilitating programming-related tasks for the professionals of the building industry.
Network and Infrastructure Manager - Malawi Research and Education Network (MAREN)
Matteo Colantonio received the B.Eng. degree in electronic engineering from the La Sapienza University of Rome in 2017 and the M.Sc. degree in photonic engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology and the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa in 2020. Since then, he has been with the Consortium GARR where he works on the design and implementation of the optical backbone and on the development of innovative services, such as spectrum sharing and QKD.
I work with the Danish NREN DeiC with a focus on international collaboration. I’m involved in different T&I and security projects and services (incl. for example FedSSH, InAcademia, DDoS mitigation) and really like eduVPN – so much that I lead the eduVPN effort in GÉANT and The Commons Conservancy but it's François Kooman (DeiC), Rogier Spoor (SURF), Jeroen Wijenbergh (GÉANT), Anass Chabli (Renater) and others doing the work. I used to be more involved with layer 2 stuff (circuits). Before that I did a PhD and research in Paris and worked on quite different things at universities in Paris and Copenhagen. I grew up in Brittany, in the western part of France.
Javier is a final-year student in the double degree program in Computer Engineering and Statistics at the University of Valladolid (Spain). He is currently collaborating with the Computer Science department to conduct research on mobile app privacy.
I'm 23 years old and I'm from Arouca, a small village in Portugal. I'm finishing my master's degree in Electrical and Computing Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto (FEUP). I'm interested in Energy Systems, mainly in incorporating Renewable Energy towards the Energy Transition.
Eli Dart is a network engineer and acting group leader in the ESnet Science Engagement Group, which seeks to use advanced networking to improve scientific productivity and science outcomes for the DOE science facilities, their users, and their collaborators.
Eli is a primary advocate for the Science DMZ design pattern and works with facilities, laboratories, universities, science collaborations, and science programs to deploy data-intensive science infrastructure based on the Science DMZ model.
Eli has over 25 years of experience in network architecture, design, engineering, performance, and security in scientific and research environments.
Alan DeKok founded FreeRADIUS in 1999, and has been working with RADIUS since then. He is the author of many RADIUS specifications. His company (Network RADIUS) provides services and support for FreeRADIUS.
Bruno has over 30 years of experience in the telecom industry and joined Nokia (then Alcatel-Lucent) in April 2014.
He’s heading the EMEA Product Line Management team for Nokia’s IP Routing and Network Automation portfolio, including the 7950 XRS, 7750 SR, 7250 IXR, 7220 IXR, 7210 SAS and 7705 SAR families of routers, the Network Services Platform (NSP), the Fabric Services Platform (FSS) and the Deepfield solutions.
This industry-leading portfolio provides service providers and large enterprises with a Smart Network Fabric spanning from access to core.
Prior to his current role he was a Technical Lead at Juniper Networks for 14 years, providing guidance to carriers and large enterprises on how to deploy and optimize their IP/MPLS and Carrier Ethernet networks.
He holds an MSc in Telecommunications from the Military Academy in Brussels and made it to Captain in charge of the Belgian Armed Forces’ country-wide data network before leaving and joining BT Belgium as a Design Engineer.
He is based in Antwerp, Belgium.
Alessandro Di Matteo received his master’s degree in computer science from the University of L’Aquila, Italy in 2022. He is a Ph.D. student in computer science and Engineering at the University of L’Aquila. His research interests include machine learning, computer vision, and data fusion.
I joined the UK Joint Network Team in 1986 when NREN backbone speeds were typically 64 Kbps, up to a maximum of 2Mbps. Since then, I have held senior positions at JANET, TERENA and GÉANT. I authored “The Case for NRENs” and was responsible for leading the GN3 ASPIRE foresight study. In 2014 I became a trustee on the board of the Vietsch Foundation.
I passionately believe the development of the Internet continues to be accelerated by the strength and collaborative nature of the education and research networking community and that the Internet is a public good for the good of the public.
Maria is working in the SUNET CERT with focus on incident response and vulnerability scannning. She has a very long experience from CSIRT work in the academic sector. She is now the leader of the Human Factor Crisis Management sub task and is also facilitating crisis exercises for the SUNET community.
Rodrigo Facio is Coordinator of Security and Privacy area for clients in RNP, responsible to provides consulting services to clients institutions.
Fabio has worked for GARR, the National Research and Education Network, since 2010 dealing with R&D and development of new services. Before joining GARR, Fabio worked at CERN on distributed data analysis for the CMS experiment.
Today, Fabio coordinates GARR's DevOps team and is responsible for the task force for the automation of GARR-T, GARR's next-generation network.
Silvia is a Communications Officer at GÉANT. She coordinates the communications activities of the AfricaConnect3 project, where she works with her colleagues from the UbuntuNet Alliance, WACREN and ASREN to promote the impact that African NRENs have on the wider research and education community.
Silvia is also the Coordinator of the Special Interest Group on Marketing and Communications, which is part of the GÉANT Community Programme, and the Production Editor of the CONNECT Magazine.
Giulio Foletto received the M.Sc. degree in Physics and Ph.D. in information engineering from Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy) in 2017 and 2022 respectively. His research focus is quantum information, especially quantum communication, through the use of photonics technology.
Team Leader of Services Department
An enthusiastic professional individual who is seeking a new challenging career after
working in the Information Technology field gather, analyze university requirements and
produce specification documents for new project requests. I am a hardworking individual
who strives to achieve the best in all areas, and I am always eager to advance my career.
My main strengths are adaptability, dependability and the determination to get a job done
as proven by my varied work experiences in analyzing systems and teaching. I try to learn
something new from every experience because I believe there is always room for self improvement
both personally and professionally.
Joost Gadellaa is a Technical Product Manager at SURF, the Dutch NREN. He works and advises on their security and privacy services such as PKI, mail filtering and red-teaming. Before joining SURF as an employee, he wrapped up his MSc in Business Informatics with a research internship on 'The Cyber Threats of Shadow IT' in Dutch higher R&E.
Maria Isabel Gandia is the Head of Communications at CSUC (Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya), responsible for the management of the Regional Research and Education Network in Catalonia (Anella Científica), the Neutral Internet Point in Catalonia (CATNIX) and its network services and tools. She is also a member of the GÉANT project, where she works on Orchestration, Automation and Virtualisation topics, like the Network Automation eAcademy. She participates in several working groups and panels of national and international experts related to the network, such as the SIG-NOC Steering Committee, the ESNOG forum, the Euro-IX Board or the Network and Performing Arts Production Workshop.
I'm a student at UCLouvain (Belgium) doing a master's degree in computer sciences, specializing in network and security.
For my master's thesis, I'm working on evaluating new metrics for internet performance using the QUIC protocol.
Iztok is a System Administrator with more then 15 years of experience working in research. His fields of expertise includes high performance computing, virtualization, storage solutions and networking.
Fabio Greiner studied sociology and theology before doing his master's degree in strategic communications. His interest in how communication constitutes and influences our society accompanied him throughout his studies and brought him to the field of security awareness. He is fascinated by the complex interrelations of security and human behaviour in an increasingly digitalized world. As a security awareness professional, he enjoys bridging the demands of IT security professionals with the needs of end users.
Since 2015: Professor for Business Information Systems Design at Frankfurt University of Applied Science
Fields: Data Management and Architectures, Process Management
Project Manager SKILL Project for Implementation of Cloud Services in Teaching at Frankfurt University
2006 - 2017: Deutsche Bank, Group Technology (IT) - Lead ITPM, Lead Business and Functional Analyst in Credit Risk and Recovery and Resolution Planning
Chin Guok is the CTO and Planning and Innovation Department Head at ESnet, DOE’s high performance network user facility. He has been involved in network engineering at ESnet for over 25 years, architecting specialized overlay services within the ESnet production backbone, prototyping SDN production solutions, and facilitating design and architecture work. Most recently, he served as the lead architect for ESnet’s current network (ESnet6) that came online in mid-2022.
Janko Harej is a teacher and senior lecturer at the School Center Nova Gorica. He has a master's degree in information and management sciences. He is interested in all aspects of introducing ICT in schools. He regularly speaks at conferences, is the author of e-materials, e-textbooks and courses. He works closely with Arnes, where he coordinates the development of courses and the development of the SIO portal.
Gyöngyi Horváth (GÉANT) is the Community Support Officer at the Amsterdam office of the GÉANT Association - formerly the Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association, (TERENA) working with the organisation since 2007. Gyöngyi was born in Hungary and graduated from the University of Miskolc in 2002, with a Masters Degree in Sociology. Working with the community for over a decade and being responsible for organizing the community’s annual conference TNC she gained view on many future initiatives. GÉANT recognized the importance for our community to address the needs of students and educators with it supporting the educational institutions. For this a new role of Community Support Officer was created. With it lies the responsibility of working with the NREN community to support their efforts in enhancing their activities for education. Email: gyongyi.horvath@geant.org
Proud father, CEO@GÉANT, Internet Hall of Fame, TEDx speaker, NTR, Media, Science, Education, Networking, NGO's, Music, Kampong & (Chocolate) Milkshake
Karel is a Ph.D. candidate at FIT CTU in Prague and a full-time researcher at CESNET a.l.e., the Czech national research and education network operator. He is very active in research areas concerning network security, focusing on high-speed network monitoring and ISP-level security protection. The outcomes of his research are network classifiers, detectors, and data exporters, which are deployed to protect production ISP monitoring infrastructure. Karel has participated in multiple national and international projects and is the author of numerous awarded research papers published at scientific conferences. Moreover, he received the prestigious award of Stanislav Hanzel for talented students.
Sandy is Legal counsel Privacy, Security and Compliancy within the team of Procurement and Contracting at SURF. Dedicated working on the task of building up the Compliance services of SURF for members institutions, what includes DPIA’s, DTIA’s and other compliance and risk assessments on vendors with a high impact in the research and education sector throughout Europe.
Sandy has been working for the past 6 years in the privacy and security domain within research and education sector. Previously at SURFnet and as a privacy and security officer at the Eindhoven University of Technology. She experienced the need for a central role on coordinating privacy, security and compliance matters regarding to vendors and is happy to take that upon her within SURF. She was trained as a lawyer.
Sara is the product manager for eduroam at Internet2. Previously, she served as lead program manager for Internet2's cloud infrastructure and platform services offerings.
Fernando Justino is a cloud architect at RNP with more than a decade of experience in managing infrastructure and IT services that support education, research, and development for the benefit of Brazilian Society.
Raj Kettimuthu is a computer scientist and group leader at Argonne. His research interests include advanced data communication tools for science and quantum networking.
Erik Kikkenborg is the NORDUnet Chief Collaboration Officer. In this role Erik’s primary focus is to promote and facilitate all aspects of education and collaboration within the R&E community with a specific eye to emerging NRENs and countries.
In his previous role as Media Services Manager Erik worked with management, organisation and distribution of cloud based hosted video services. He has been active in Audio Visual and communications technology for more than 20 years starting as technician, project coordinator, moving on to manager and video consultant for a number of media and audio-visual companies.
Throughout the years Erik has provided advice to many companies and international Research and Educations institutions on how best to apply video communications, learning platforms & technology, online video and live streaming.
Erik’s work on collaboration with Nordic and International Research and Educations institutions in the area of online learning platforms for learning and collaboration date back to 2011 where he started working on European and global projects under the GÉANT: GEANT Event Team, TF-EDU, SIG-MM, GÉANT (eduCONF), Terena (NRENum), Global CEO Forum (GVA), (GRTC), Asi@Connect (fDLuDCF), (BeLISAC), Africa Digital Campus and Up2University (Up2U).
Another dedicated part of Erik’s activities has counted the role of Technical Project Coordinator of a vast number of NORDUnet, DeiC, SUNET, NeIC, GÉANT, and the former Terena conferences around the Nordics and Europe.
On top of his technical training Erik holds a Global Board Leadership Masterclass and the Crisis Leadership and Human Behavior Masterclass.
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Jeremy Knox is Senior Lecturer and Co-director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include the relationships between education, data-driven technologies and wider society, and he has led projects funded by the ESRC and the British Council in the UK. Jeremy’s published work includes Posthumanism and the MOOC (2016), Artificial Intelligence and Inclusive Education (2019), The Manifesto for Teaching Online (2020), Data Justice and the Right to the City (2022), and AI and Education in China (2023).
Head of Future Internet Services Department at Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poznan, Poland. In his research he studies application of advanced ICT for supporting people with special needs. This relates especially to such areas as e-health, telemedicine, assistive technologies, e-Inclusion. For the last ten years Michal has been the principal investigator of several international projects in those areas, including projects such as Silhouette, Fit4Work, Pelosha or Insension. He has also participated as a key research team member in a number of other international and national projects related to for example application of telemedicine in trauma, mobile technologies for people with intellectual disabilities and active and assisted living solutions, where he often served as the technical coordinator.
Contract and Vendormanager Procurement and Contracting at SURF. Managing framework agreements and working a lot on compliance services for member institutions. Zoom DPIA is the best example of this what resulted in a new DPA, DTIA and many more to use for institutions in Europe.
Head of Architecture for RNP (Brazil);
MSc in Information Systems
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology
MBA in Application Architecture
Enterprise Architecture Certified (TOGAF 9)
Tom Lehman is a Networked Systems Researcher and Developer. His interests include multi-resource orchestration of distributed cyber-infrastructure systems in support of big data driven domain science workflows. He is currently working for ESnet/LBNL with a focus on developing API driven interactions between science workflow agents and distributed compute, storage, network, and instrument systems.
Stefan is working at the Swedish NREN Sunet as a service manager for the e-signature service eduSign. He is also involved in EU collaborations such as the European Digital Student Service Infrastructure (EDSSI) project and the development of the EU Digital Identity Wallet (EUDIW).
Panos Louridas is Director of Research and Development at GRNET, responsible for development and deployment of public services for citizens, as well as for the research and academic sector. He is also an Associate Professor at the Athens University of Economics and Business.
Tina Marković is the manager of CARNET's Helpdesk Service. She has many years experience in european project management as well as in activities that aim to popularize the implementation of ICT in education and the integration of innovative methods in learning and teaching. For the past five years, she has been leading the Scientix and "DOTS - Development of transversal skills in STEM" projects, through which science subjects are promoted and aspire to create a community of practicing STEM teachers in EU member states. Tina is a member of the program committee of the Scientific Picnic, in which CARNET has participated since 2015 as co-organizer. In the EU project "e-Schools - Development of a system of digitally mature schools", she leads activities related to the strengthening of the Community of Practitioners, which include the design and organization of regional meetings and the arrangement and equipping of Regional Education Centers (ROC) in 15 schools. She graduated from the Faculty of Economics in Zagreb, majoring in Business Informatics. Also, she graduated from CARNET's E-learning academy and obtained a project manager's license.
Paloma currently works as Engagement Manager for Global Consortia at ORCID. Her main focus is on building communities of practices around ORCID worldwide. Before joining ORCID in 2020, she worked in research and university libraries in Austria and Germany.
Paloma has a PhD in Information Science from São Paulo State University (Brazil), a master's degree in Scientific Information and Communication and a licentiate degree in Physics, both from the University of Granada (Spain), as well as a Master's degree in data protection and the GDPR from the Spanish National Distance University (UNED) and the Spanish Data Protection Agency.
She is fluent in English, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan.
Edoardo Martelli is an experienced network engineer in the Communication Systems group of the CERN IT department. His expertise is in the field of Internet connectivity, campus and datacentre networks, network security and firewalls. Edoardo chair the community that provides LHCOPN and LHCONE the international networks for the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid
Garvan is HEAnet's Brokerage Services Manager. He has over 30 years experience in ICT across a range of sectors including education, telecommunications, manufacturing and financial services.
He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Applications from DCU and an M.Sc. from TCD in Management of Information Systems.
When not thinking about how to save HEAnet's clients time, effort and money, he enjoys training guide dog puppies as well as all things Italian.
Jasmina Mešić has coordinated Slovenia’s national security awareness programme at SI-CERT for 10 years. The programme has won multiple awards for innovation and design, including the 2020 Slovenian Grand Security Award and 2014 Content Marketing Project of the Year. Jasmina studied media communication at a faculty of electrical science and computer engineering. She combines communications and marketing skills with a strong understanding of technology and cyber security.
Sikt's senior advisor international strategy, long term contributor to the European and Nordic NREN communities, chair of the FIleSender & SimpleSAMLphp open source community boards and co-chair of the EOSC Task Force for Financial Sustainability. Leading the Above-the-net Strategy task in the GN5-1 cloud work package.
In his current role, Jérôme drives DDoS security research & competence development at Nokia, as part of its Deepfield portfolio of network security & analytics.
Based out of Paris, he joined the company’s Mobile Networks organization in 2005 in Malaysia; and he since covered a variety of sales & pre-sales responsibilities in the Asia-Pacific region, before returning to Europe in 2023.
Jérôme graduated with a Master’s degree from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées in Lyon, France.
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Mira Mezini is Professor of Computer Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. her research focuses on software development paradigms and tools. On the paradigms side, Dr Mezini develops programming languages to enable the visions of “software as a service (SaaS)” and “software product-lines” by providing large-scale module concepts with built-in support for adaptability and extensibility. On the tools side, she works on intelligent software-development environments that guide developers to increase the development productivity and the software quality. Dr Mezini has (co)authored over 100 scientific publications and regularly serves on steering and programme committees, and editorial boards of top tier conferences and journals in software engineering and programming languages.
Carmen works as an Electrical and Electronics Engineer at CERN. Previously, she worked as a Space Systems Engineer at Alén Space.
Carmen has a Bachelor's Degree in Telecommunications Engineering in the field of Electronic Systems at the University of Vigo. Her thesis topic was: Analysis, design and implementation of a non-invasive glucose monitoring system based on the near infrared. She holds a Master's Degree in Telecommunications Engineering in the field of Electronic Systems at the University of Vigo. The thesis topic was: Validation and verification of COTS FPGA in radiation environments: simulation-based fault injection [Developed at DLR]. She holds a second Master's Degree in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the International University of Valencia, with the following thesis topic: The Evolution of Stellar Bars in the Cosmological Simulation TNG50 [Developed at Donostia International Physics Center].
She is currently writing her PhD on Edge Computing in Space [Developed at Space Systems Engineering research group, University of Luxembourg].
Sokol Muça, (1970), has completed a Master's Degree at the Law School of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland and a Master' s Degree at the Law School of the Temple University in Philadelphia, USA. In Albania he completed his studies at the Law School at the University of Tirana as well as at the Faculty of History - Philology at the University of Tirana.
He has held a number of positions, such as; Advisor for Innovation, Technology and Projects in the Ministry of Culture; Adviser on Innovation and Technology in the Ministry of Education and Sports; Director of Academic Program at Microsoft; Project Director at Save the Children and other local and international organizations; expert for various local and international organizations on innovation and technology, etc.
Actually he is the Director of the National Institute of the Registration of Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Albania.
Karl Newell is a Network Software Architect at Internet2 (US national Research & Education network) where he leads their network automation and orchestration efforts. He is currently focusing on helping the Internet2 community jump start and expand their network automation endeavors.
Sean O’Brien leads Internet2’s NET+ cloud service program working with institutions on the collaborative development, evaluation, and management of cloud services for the research and education community. He has worked in a variety of roles in higher education and the private sector focusing on cloud enablement, institutional research, and project management.
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With over 25 years of experience Laura’s career has included positions in industries across technology commercialisation, entrepreneurship, software development, global research infrastructure, and more. Laura is a thought leader on the topics of persistent identifiers, innovation, technology commercialisation, and research infrastructure. She joined the Spherical Cow Group consultancy in 2018. Her work helps organisations make dramatic impacts via strategic analysis and development of business and organisational models and innovation. Laura serves on the T&I Programme Advisory Group and the Steering Committee of InCommon, the US identity management federation for R&E institutions and on the board of Nano Hacker Academy, an educational programme that teaches school students critical thinking and coding.
Dr. Ilias Papastamatiou is an Electrical and Computer Engineer of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and holds the position of the Senior Project Manager at GRNET since 2020. He participates in the management and implementation of National and EU projects in the area of High Performance Network Connectivity and the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) such as GEANT’s GN5-1 and EOSC-Future. He is currently the HellasQCI coordinator, the project that builds the National Quantum Communication Infrastructure of Greece and EuroQCI Technical Representative.
Previously, during 2014-2020, he worked at the European Commission in Brussels, and specifically as Member of the Cabinet to the Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship and later as Policy Officer at the Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs (DG HOME). During 2013-2014 he was Advisor at the Hellenic Ministry of National Defence and Head of the ICT Department of the Minister’s Cabinet. He retained the same position for the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs during 2012-2013. He holds a PhD from NTUA with honours in the research domain of Decision Support Systems and ICT. Mr Papastamatiou is decorated by the Minister of National Defence with the Cross of Merit and Honor (2nd Class) for his work in 2014.
Procurement Specialist at GÉANT Amsterdam for all Cloud-procurement since July 2021. Specialised in European and Dutch Procurement Law and Contracting law. Monique is currently working on amongst others: the OCRE Framework; the EOSC Future commercial cloud procurements and task lead of the procurement of the new cloud tender within GN5-1.
is Head of User Support at CARNET – Croatian Academic and Research Network. In the last 20 years, her focus has been on implementing digital transformation projects in the primary, secondary, and high education sectors. She led the e-Class Register project and has participated in several CARNET national projects for schools. In the e-School project, she works to support the school's education system by providing a community for various practitioners. She is currently dedicated to leading teams in customer support and conducting in-house training in soft skills and organizational and personal development. She graduated in philosophy and croatology at the University of Zagreb and completed a series of educations in leadership, project management, business psychology, and human resource management.
I am a master's student at Faculty of Information Technology at Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech republic. I also work at CESNET, Czech's NREN. My main focus areas are network traffic classification and threat detection systems. Initially, I was working on cryptomalware detector for ISP-level networks with minimum of false positives. Nowadays, I am implementing and experimenting with data fusion for malware detection on high-speed networks.
Mario Reale graduated in High Energy Physics (HEP) in 1992 at the Second University of Rome Tor Vergata, and got a Ph.D in HEP from the University of Wuppertal in Germany, 1997, working at the DELPHI experiment at CERN.
He has been involved in several Grid Computing projects, starting from DataGrid at CERN in 2001. He worked at CERN in the EGEE project on the WLCG grid in 2004-2006. He joined the Italian Research and Education Network in 2006, and worked there in several Trust and Identity, Grid and Cloud computing projects. From 2019 he is a Senior Research Engagement Officer at GÉANT in Amsterdam, supporting large international user communities.
Solution Architect at GÉANT for software development
Evelien Renders facilitates international collaboration in higher education at SURF, the cooperative organisation for IT in Dutch education and research. Complex processes, manageable data, and interoperability between systems make her happy. She keeps track of international developments in student mobility and other logistical processes. In doing so, she contributes to flexible and agile education, both in the Netherlands and abroad. With a commitment to public values and open standards, Evelien advocates for communication, trust, and collaboration between IT stakeholders in higher education.
Electronic Engineer - Javeriana University, Administration Specialist – Universidad de los Andes, Management and evaluation of investment projects – Externado de Colombia University.
Experience articulating projects of national, regional and local scope, with public Entities,
Providers, Integrators, Operators-Telcos, Auditors and their teams (technical-financial-legal-commercial-risks-social-environmental and appropriation).
Paul joined GÉANT in 2011 as Head of Procurement, leading and growing the procurement team, and quickly established himself as a highly effective, professional and valued member of the community. In that time he has overseen extensive procurement activity relating not only to the pan-European GÉANT network where he has secured extensive savings, but has also played a central role in the success of GÉANT’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service framework, as well as supporting research community engagement with EUMETSAT, ESA and ESnet. In fact, Paul’s involvement and influence continues to benefit numerous projects and initiatives across Europe and beyond, including the Eastern Partnership Connect project EaPConnect, the Collaboration Asia-Europe-1 (CAE-1) 100Gbps link between Singapore and London, as well as the BELLA submarine cable linking Europe and Latin America.
Prior to GÉANT, Paul held several procurement roles in commercial and public sector organisations and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply. He holds a BSc in Technology and Management Science, Business and Technology.
Paul was appointed Chief Community Relations Officer in early 2020, and is responsible for Partner and Stakeholder Relations, International Relations, Research Engagement, Community Support, and Learning and Development.
MSc. Piotr Rydlichowski - graduated from the Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications at the Poznań University of Technology, specializing in Telecommunications Systems. Doctoral studies in "Modern Information Engineering" with particular focus on microwaves theory and techniques, EM waves theory, propagation and simulation. From 2008 at Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center in the Network Technologies Division. Participated in several scientific and research projects, both Polish and European, including: GÉANT, ROAM, COMPLETE, NLPQT. Responsible for the optical networks laboratory. Since 2017, participating in projects focusing on quantum technologies - computing and quantum communication. Participates in the activities of the OpenQKD and QUAPITAL projects and is responsible for activities related to the QKD technology within the GEANT GN4-3 WP6 group.
John is the Head of Projects & Managed Services at the Australian Access Federation. He is the product manager for AAF's cloud identity provider service (Rapid Identity Provider) and privacy-preserving student verification service (VerifID). With 25 years’ experience in the higher education and research sector, John has a strong track record of successfully delivering large, complex projects and in developing innovative approaches to business and technology solutions.
Director of Service at Jisc (UK). Responsible for the end-to-end service lifecycle across network, cloud and cyber security product portfolios.
Father of twins and telecommunication engineer. I spent most of my professional life at University of Pisa (Italy) where I developed my passion for Open Source software and highly available infrastructure. I moved to the Netherlands in 2016 and I started jumping in various ISPs to work on physical and virtual infrastructure. I landed in Geant in 2019 where my focus is network automation. Love the people, the spirit and the values shared by this amazing community.
Rogier Spoor is Product Manager at SURF, the National Research and Educational Network in the Netherlands. Rogier supports SURF's security community (SCIRT) and develops and innovates new services in the field of security and cloud computing. Rogier is co-founder of eduVPN, a full open-source VPN solution, which has been specifically developed for educational and research institutions. Rogier Spoor graduated in Bioprocess Engineering at the Wageningen University and Research Centre. He is one of the founding board members of [The Commons Conservancy].
TV professional, presenter of the programmes Hyde Park Civilisation and Veda24 (both focussing on science) and special broadcasts (e.g. covid pandemic, war in Ukraine, significant scientific discoveries and awards). Interviewer of the most distinguished scientists (31 Nobel Prize laureates, live interview with ISS) in Czech and English language. Member of the Science department of Czech TV. Moderator of various social events (particularly expert conferences) and sport events (e.g. Prague International Marathon, World Championships and World Cups in a variety of sports).
Product manager of SUNETs IdP (eduID.se) and SeamlessAccess (seamlessaccess.org). Chair of SWAMID and co-chair on REFEDS working group for browser changes and federation.
Current coordinator of the Italian Identity Federation IDEM and GARR's DPO, he serves also as the eduGAIN service owner in the GÈANT project. He holds a Master degree in History and a post-graduate diploma from the Faculty of Engineer in Internet Technology.
Karel van Klink is a Network Engineer at GÉANT in the Network Evolution team. With a bachelors degree in Technical Computer Science and a masters in Internet Science & Technology, his research ranges from the applicability of Quantum Key Distribution in the GÉANT network to facial recognition on statues of Roman Emperors. Currently, he is working on orchestration and automation of services in the GÉANT network.
Fausto Vetter is Research and Development Coordinator in the Directorate of R,D&I at RNP since 2011. He has background on network management and operations. He has been managing research and development working groups to deliver innovative services. Before joining RNP, he has worked for DANTE involved mainly in perfSONAR and in the monitoring infrastructure of the GÉANT backbone. He holds a Bachelor in Science Degree in Information Systems from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) and two Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Project Management from Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) and Entrepenuership and New Business Develoment from FGV.
Dr Domenico Vicinanza is a Senior Research Engagement Officer and the Coordinator for Arts and Humanities at GÉANT. He is also a Senior Lecturer at the Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. He received his PhD in physics working at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN, Geneva) and he is a professional music composer and orchestrator.
He worked for more than a decade as a Scientific Associate at CERN, where he was a member of the Offline Board for the ALICE experiment and worked on research and development for particle physics detectors.
He has an active collaboration with CERN, which commissioned an orchestral piece on scientific data, for their 60th anniversary and with NASA, writing music from data collected by the Voyager 1 and 2 space probes.
His research interests are on the applications of scientific data sonification in physics, neurobiology and motor control.
Ana Villalta is the PMO Manager at CEDIA since 2020. Her experience in Project Management started in 2014.
She had her Master's Degree in Project Management at the Ramon Llull University - Barcelona. She obtained certifications as a Practitioner of the PMO Value Ring Methodology ( PMO-CP) for the PMO Global Alliance. Also, Ana is the first professional certified as a consultant of PMOs in Ecuador (PMO-CC).
My name is Vladislav and I come from Czech Republic. I am a student of Brno University of Technology and I also work for CESNET company which is the NREN for Czech Republic. Added to that, I am doing my traineeship at Heidelberg University. Therefore, my study/work life could be described both as exciting and complicated. Outside of that, I spend my time talking with friends, dancing, playing piano or reading. Occasional jogging or a visit of a concert is not an exception.
My project on both the NREN and my traineeship revolve around PCI Express. This is a high-throughput interface allowing to connect peripherals to the computer. I am currently developing a design for a FPGA card allowing to easily interact with the communication protocol of the PCI Express. The FPGAs in those days provide extensive versatility of applications which they can offload from the host CPU like database query acceleration, arithmetics or packet filtering.
Maja Vreča has been working at ARNES since 1995. She was Head of User Support for many years, but in recent years, she specialised in issues concerning safer internet use. In her role
as an associate at the Slovenian Safer Internet Awareness Node, she lectures to a wide range of
audiences: from people with special needs to general public, from primary school pupils to parents and teachers, from students to researchers. During the last eight years, she has been preparing a MOOC on safe internet use, the biggest MOOC in Slovenian language. She also prepared a MOOC on the safe internet use for children and a MOOC for teens. She writes columns and articles and regularly presents the issue in Slovenian media. Maja is a member of an expert group that prepared national guidelines for the screen use in children and teens.
I started working for the Italian Research and Education Network (GARR) in 2003 after a PhD in Physics and several years as researcher in High Energy Physics experiments at CERN and SLAC. In GARR, at first I designed and developed the network Information System. Then, when GARR implemented its first DWDM network, I joined the optical network design team, actively working on the design and implementation of GARR-X, GARR-X Progress, on the introduction of alien wavelengths technique and, lately, on the design of the new optical transport network of the GARR-T project and its evolution.
SURF - Emerging Technology Advisor
I currently work on projects for SURF XR Team and Futuring. I'm interested on the more social-side of technologies, such as ethics and their mediating role in our educational/research practices.
Tim has shown an interest in Information Security since his early years. First as an Ethical Hacker and Information Security Consultant and later as a teacher at a local University of Applied Sciences where he setup a Cyber Security program. He currently holds the position of Senior Information Security officer at GÉANT.
David Wilde is the Chief Technology Officer of AARNet, Australia’s Academic and Research Network. AARNet connects more than two million end users, interconnecting Australian universities, the CSIRO, research institutes, scientific instruments, schools, colleges, libraries, archives and museums.
For the past 12 years David has driven future technology direction and the development of leading edge applications while building and securing the AARNet network. David has developed extensive collaborations with AARNet’s international peers supporting Australian researchers and educators in achieving world-class technology outcomes in order to overcome the tyranny of distance.
Coming from an operations center background with over a decade of experience working everything from national scale commercial data backbone networks to metro and campus level connectivity, Mike has spent the last several years working in the not-for-profit technology and education world and is is now focused on bringing that experience to bear for the research and education community as a Program Manager on the eduroam team, focusing on statewide deployments to K12s across the US. He also provides flywheeling and logistical support for other Internet2 Trust and Identity initiatives and governance committees.
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