Steering & Programme Committees - RDA and global Data and Computing e-Infrastructure challenges

Marco Conti is a research director at the Institute of Informatics and Telematics (IIT), an institute of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). He co-authored the book "Metropolitan Area Networks" (1997) and co-editor of the books "Mobile Ad Hoc Networking" (2004) and "Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: From Theory to Reality" (2007). He published in journals and conference proceedings more than 180 research papers related to design, modeling, and performance evaluation of computer-network architectures and protocols. He is Associate Editor in Chief of Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal, and he is on the editorial board of: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Ad Hoc Networks journal and Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: An International Journal.

Juan Bicarregui is Head of Data Division at STFC. His division has responsibility for research and development of the data systems which handle much of the huge volume of scientific data which is produced by the STFC research facilities. Juan leads the PaNdata collaboration which is developing a shared computing infrastructure across all 13 major European Photon and Neutron laboratories. The current phase of the work is focusing on developing systems which will track the provenance of data through data analysis stages and deliver data collection systems which scale to the ever increasing data volumes produced by each new generation of instruments.

Massimo Cocco is a Director of Research at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Department of Seismology and Tectonophysics, Rome. His research interests are focused on the physics of earthquakes and faults. More specifically, his work deals with earthquake dynamics and fault interaction, seismicity patterns and fault frictional properties. He is interested in both theoretical studies and observational research. He has interests in all aspects of the mechanics of earthquakes and faulting from observations of natural faults through geophysical and geological measurements to experimental faults at the laboratory scale. His expertise also covers the management of seismic networks and monitoring research infrastructures. Massimo is presently coordinating the preparatory phase of a European project named EPOS: European Plate Observing System.

Françoise Genova has been the director of Strasbourg astronomical data centre CDS since 1995. She is one of the founding parents of the astronomical Virtual Observatory (VO) endeavour, and has coordinated several projects funded by the European Commission in support to the European VO. She was a member of the High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data set up by the European Commission in 2010, and one of the authors of the "Riding the wave" report. She is Vice-Chair of the Scientific Committee of ICSU World Data System, and has been a member of the Executive Committee of ICSU CODATA (2010-2012). 

Dr. Kimmo Koski Managing Director, CSC - the Finnish IT Center for Science Kimmo Koski started in his current position as Managing Director of the Finnish IT center for science, CSC, in August 2004. Prior to his present position, Koski spent 4.5 years in Nokia Research Center and Nokia Technology Platform. Earlier work experience includes 10 years at CSC in various positions and a one-year visiting period in CERN in Switzerland. Koski received his doctorate from Helsinki University of Technology in January 1996. His dissertation was on Metacomputing Technology. During the recent years Koski has been active in building European HPC and data infrastructure through chair and vice-chair positions in major EU initiatives, such as PRACE (supercomputing) and EUDAT (data infrastructures). 

In 2012 Doris Wedlich became chief science officer (CSO) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) responsible for research programs in biology, chemistry, chemical engineering, astroparticle and elementary particle physics, topics that depend on optimal and efficient large-scale data analysis and management. As KIT is part of the Helmholtz Association providing high-tech infrastructures to scientists worldwide open access to research outputs and data security are key issues of the Helmholtz mission Doris Wedlich stands for.

Professor John Wood CBE, FREng is the Secretary-General of the Association of Commonwealth Universities and  High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data Information Chair. He graduated from Sheffield University in metallurgy and went to Cambridge University for his Ph.D. (Darwin College).  He was a founder member of the European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures and became chair in 2004 where he was responsible for producing the first European Roadmap. He became the first chair of the European Research Area Board in 2008 responsible for high level advice to the European Commission and in 2009 produced a long term strategic vision entitled “Preparing Europe for a New Renaissance.”

Antonio Zoccoli is professor of experimental physics at the University of Bologna, vice-president of the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) and the director of Bologna INFN Section. He has been the President of Giuseppe Occhialini Foundation since 2008. He has authored more than 200 technical and scientific publications on international journals, and is currently a member of the ATLAS collaboration, one of the two LHC accelerator experiments (the other one being CMS) which have led to the discovery of Higgs Boson.