Name: Jean-François Abramatic
Designation: Emeritus Senior Scientist, EOSC Architecture WG chair, Individual Expert
Bio: Jean-François Abramatic is Emeritus Senior Scientist at Inria, the French National Institute in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. His career has been shared between research (Inria, MIT) and industry (Ilog, IBM). Jean-François was Chairman of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) from 1996 to 2001. He is currently member of the EOSC Executive Board.
Website: www.inria.fr
Name: Mark Allen
Designation: ESCAPE WP4 leader
Bio: Mark Allen is the Director of the Strasbourg Astronomical Data Centre (Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg) CDS. He obtained his PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the Australian National University in 1998. After a postdoctoral position at the Space Telescope Science Institute (1998-2001) he joined the Observatoire de Strasbourg, and became a research scientist in the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 2004. His scientific interests are the use of e-Infrastructures for advancing astronomy, and also the astrophysical processes associated with black holes at the centres of galaxies - Active Galactic Nuclei. He has served as the Chair of the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA, 2017-19), and currently leads the CEVO Work Package in the ESCAPE project.
Website: cds.u-strasbg.fr
Name: Simone Campana
Designation: ESCAPE WP2 leader
Bio: Simone Campana is senior staff member at CERN and currently the project leader of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG). He obtained his PhD in Particle Physics at the University of California in 2003 and worked in software and distributed computing projects since then. He was project leader of the Data Management system of the ATLAS experiment at CERN, the responsible for ATLAS distributed computing, the WLCG Service and Operations coordinator and the ATLAS Software and Computing Coordinator. He leads the work package on Data Infrastructure for Open Science in the European ESCAPE project.
Website: www.cern.ch
Name: Andrea Ceccanti
Designation: Technologist
Bio: Andrea Ceccanti is a Technologist (Tecnologo) at INFN-CNAF where he works on the design and development of AAI and storage management solutions in support of scientific research. Andrea has been involved in several European projects (EGEE, EMI, INDIGO-Datacloud) in the past 15 years working on the design, development, maintenance and evolution of key middleware components in use in WLCG and other scientific computing infrastructures.Andrea is leading development and maintenance of VOMS, the core of the WLCG and OSG AAI, the Argus authorization framework, StoRM, the storage management system that powers the Italian Tier-1 computing center, and the INDIGO Identity and Access Management (IAM) service. Currently Andrea is involved in the EOSC-Hub, EOSC-Pilot and Deep-Hybrid DataCloud projects where he serves as an expert in software development, AAI and distributed computing
Website: https://www.cnaf.infn.it/
Name: Elena Cuoco
Designation: She has long experience as data analyst and works for Virgo experiment since 1995. She led the noise analysis group for Virgo from 2008 to 2014. From 2014 to 2018 she was the scientific coordinator on an Initial Training Network GraWIToN, addressed to the training of young scientist in Gravitational Wave research. She developed algorithms for data characterization and for the analysis of transient signals, introducing machine learning techniques in this field. She is now co-chairing the Machine Learning group in the LIGO/Virgo collaboration. Since 2018 she is the action chair of CA17137 action, a network for Machine Learning in Gravitational Wave science. Recently she joined the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, working as collaborator in the Astrophysics and Cosmology group.
Website: https://www.ego-gw.it/
Name: Francoise Genova
Designation: Task lead, WP4
Bio: Francoise Genova has been the director of the Strasbourg astronomical data centre CDS from 1995 to 2015, one of the founding parents of the astronomical Virtual Observatory, and the coordinator of several European projects which organised the European participation in the Virtual Observatory.
Website: www.asterics2020.eu/dadi
Name: Kay Graf
Designation: ESCAPE WP3 leader
Bio: Kay Graf (m) is general manager of ECAP and a senior staff researcher there. He is member of the steering committee of the KM3NeT collaboration, coordinating the working group for computing and software that handles the data challenge and data processing tasks for this experiment. He also leads the high-performance computing group of the ECAP that coordinates and implements the local data processing and analysis of all the ECAP projects. Within ESCAPE he coordinates WP3, the OSSR.
Website: www.fau.eu
Name: Michiel Van Haarlem
Designation: ESCAPE WP5 leader
Bio: Michiel van Haarlem (m) is Head of the NL SKA Office at ASTRON. He leads the Netherlands participation in the SKA project and is PI on the National Roadmap proposal which is funding the NL participation in the current pre-construction phase (2013-2017). As executive officer and later director general he was responsible for setting up the SKA Organisation in Manchester (UK) which is leading the project. From 1998 to 2011 he was involved in all phases of the design and construction of LOFAR radio telescope, as programme manager, project scientist and in the latter stages as managing director of the LOFAR Foundation which built the telescope which has pioneered the use of modern aperture array technology in low frequency radio astronomy
Website: www.astron.nl
Name: Giovanni Lamanna
Designation: Giovanni Lamanna(m), Director of LAPP-CNRS, is the coordinator of the ESCAPE project. He is member of the H.E.S.S. and CTA international collaborations. He has been involved since the beginning in the conception and preparation of the CTA ESFRI facility. He has been member of the CTA project committee and has served (2009-2016) as the coordinator of the Data Management for the CTA international consortium. He has been committed in the design and construction of the Large Size Telescope of CTA, now deployed at La Palma island. He leads the LAPP contribution to the design study of FCC, the CERN Future Circular Collider. G. Lamanna coordinated the OBELICS work package of the H2020 ASTERICS cluster project. He is author/co-author of more than 200 scientific publications, proceeding of conferences, technical reports and maintains an interest in the very deep observation of non-thermal astrophysical phenomena in the universe as well as in the multi-messenger approach investigation at the frontier between Astrophysics and Particle physics. Some of his areas of research are fundamental and applied physics, experimental research instrumentation and data processing. He is an active astro. & particle physicist with an interest in the application of Big Data and advanced computing to the field of physics in general, and in gamma-ray astronomy in particular. He has served as member of the CERN LHC Computer Resources Scrutiny Group, he has served as computing, e-science and e-infrastructure policy manager at CNRS-IN2P3 (2013-2016)
Website: lapp.in2p3.fr
Name: Corina Pascu
Designation: Policy Officer - European Open Science Cloud and Open Science policies
Bio: Spent about thirty years as a tech analyst, out of which twenty years on the interface between digital technology and policy. Hold a MSc EEng, postgrad MAE and trained (MOOCs) in statistics, technology entrepreneurship and commercialization of innovation. Associated with Asociacion Astronomica de Espana and member of Slooh community since 2004. Currently with European Commission DG Research and Innovation, working on the formulation of European Open Science policies (incl. European Open Science Cloud EOSC: delivering the governance of the EOSC, managing the high level expert group of the Executive Board of the EOSC, EOSC focal point for astronomy/physics) and Open Science diplomacy (co-chair of G7 Open Science Working Group and correspondent in DG R&I for G20/G7 on Open Science). Previously as innovation expert European Commission and World Bank on e.g. investment readiness of innovative SMEs, EIT’s KICs, digital innovations and VAM. Formerly with EU’s Science Hub on the social and economic implications of ICTs.
Website : ec.europa.eu
Name: Stephen Serjeant
Designation: ESCAPE WP6 leader
Bio: Stephen Serjeant (m) is the Open University's Professor of Astronomy. He chairs the Astronomy Advisory Panel for the UK research council STFC, chairs the Scientific Council of the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg, and is the current President of the Society for Popular Astronomy. Serjeant has published over 280 refereed publications to date with nearly 15,000 citations and has an H-index of 63. He has written or co-authored four academic textbooks, published by Cambridge University Press and Open University Press. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, a Chartered Physicist, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (the UK's professional recognition of higher education teaching excellence) and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. Serjeant co-won the 2004 Daiwa Adrian Prize for his Anglo-Japanese scientific collaborations. He is active in infrared and multi-wavelength survey astronomy, galaxy evolution and strong gravitational lensing, leading or co-leading many international projects and working groups. He participated in the ESA Euclid strong gravitational lensing machine learning challenge and leads the recruitment for the five universities in the DISCnet Centre for Doctoral Training in Data-Intensive Science. He was the lead Science consultant on the BBC1 series Bang Goes The Theory and has consulted on BBC2 Stargazing Live and BBC4 Light and Dark, and he is consulting on a new BBC prime-time series starring Prof. Brian Cox. With Norton, Chambers and others, Serjeant contributed to the Sixty Second Adventures in Astronomy series of online cartoons, which have had over 1 million views to date. He led the Dissemination, Engagement and Citizen Science work package of the EC funded ASTERICS project. Serjeant also chairs the external Advisory Board for the Horizon 2020 REINFORCE project. Serjeant is overseeing the OU contribution to the project and is liaising with other partners, as well as authoring educational material.
Website: www.open.ac.uk
