DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURES for RESEARCH 2018 | Serving the user base
The DI4R 2018 Programme Committee (PC) is co-chaired by Volker Guelzow of DESY
Oct 03, 2018
Oct 01, 2018
Sep 27, 2018
We proudly present this year's keynote speakers, who will share know
Sep 21, 2018
Organisation: CERN
Role: Information Architect
Robin is a senior fellow in CERN’s Scientific Information Service and lead of the sustainability segment of the THOR Project. Her work focuses on improving scientific research data management processes.
Organisation: CLARIN ERIC
Role: CLARIN ERIC
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.
Organisation: THOR Project, ORCID EU
Role: Senior Technical Officer
Tom investigates and develops links with other identifier systems as part of the EC-funded THOR project. Tom has a long history of working with software in the academic sector.
Organisation: Netherlands eScience Center
Role: eScience Research Engineer
Niels Drost studied Computer Science at the VU University Amsterdam, specializing on Computer Systems, and resulting in a Master degree in 2004.
Organisation: ORCID EU
Role: Events and Training Officer
Maaike is organising events and workshops for the THOR project. Before joining ORCID, she held different positions in academic publishing in the Netherlands and Tanzania. She earned an MA in linguistics from the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Organisation: Research Data Services (RDS)
Role: Director
Ian Duncan was previously the Associate Director of Enterprise Support at Information Technology Services, The University of Queensland (UQ) and has been with UQ since 2001 during which time he has held the roles of school IT manager, Research Institute IT Manager and Operation
Organisation: CINECA Supercomputing Centre
Role: Division Leader
Giovanni Erbacci holds a laurea degree in Computer Science from the University of Pisa in Italy. He leads the HPC Projects Division in the Supercomputing Applications and Innovation Department at CINECA, the Italian Supercomputing Centre. Since 1992 he organises and directs the CINECA’s Summer School on Parallel Computing.
G.E. actively participates in different EC projects since the IV FP and since 2010 he is deeply involved in PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe). He leaded the “Services for Industrial Users and SMEs” activity which launched SHAPE the “SMEs HPC adoption programme”, providing an effective set of high-level services to support the SMEs users in the adoption of HPC methodologies.
Currently G.E. co-ordinates the PRACE operational services for the HPC eco-system. He is a member of the PRACE Technical Board and has been appointed Italian Delegate in the PRACE Research Infrastructure.
Organisation: CMCC Advanced Scientific Computing Division
Role: Data Scientist and Director
Dr Sandro Fiore (M), Ph.D., Data Scientist and Director of the CMCC Advanced Scientific Computing Division. His research activities focus scientific data management, data analytics/mining and high performance database management. Since 2004, he has been involved in several EU projects like EGEE, IS-ENES, EUBRAZILCC, EXARCH, ORIENTGATE, TESSA, CLIP-C. He is the PI of the Ophidia project (www.ophidia.cmcc.it) a research effort on high performance data analytics for eScience. Since 2011, he has been Visiting Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, contributing to the Earth System Grid Federation. He is editor of the book “Grid and Cloud Database Management” (Springer, 2011).
Organisation: DataCite
Role: Application Developer
Kristian contributes to the development and implementation of a robust technical architecture for DataCite as well as DataCite’s technical role in the EU-funded THOR Project. Improving to the community-wide adoption of good data sharing practices is one of his main goals.