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Speakers

Antónia Correia

Short CV

Antónia Correia works as an information specialist for FIT4RRI project for the Open Access Projects’ Office of Minho University. She has extensive experience working in academic libraries and supporting researchers in scientific publishing, visibility and evaluation. She collaborates with Universidade Nova de Lisboa’s Doctoral School in the Information Literacy and Research Data Management courses. Working for FOSTER Plus project, she coordinated the Portuguese translation of the Open Science Training Handbook and collaborated in the Open Science Training Toolkit. She’s part of the OpenAIRE’s Community of Practice for training coordinators and managers and Research Data Alliance’s Portuguese Node. Research interests are all subjects related to Open Science, Research Data Management, Scholarly Publication and Research Assessment.

About Workshop

Title: Towards an alliance of citizen science in Europe

When

18th September, 09:00

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André Vieira

Short CV

André Vieira is member of Open Access projects team in the Documentation Services at the University of Minho as Information Professional, being involved in EU-H2020 projects OpenAIRE-Advance, OpenAIRE-Connect and FAIRsFAIR.
Have a degree in Sciences and Technologies of Documentation and Information at Polytechnic Institute of Porto, a master degree in Information Science at University of Porto, and a PhD degree in Business Economics at the University of Rey Juan Carlos.
Have been developed their professional activity as librarian at IPAM – The Marketing School (2009-2018), editorial coordinator of Portuguese Marketing Journal (2012-2018), research assistant from IPAM Lab – Research Unit in Marketing (2017-2018) and member of organizational committees of several international scientific conferences.

About Demos

Title: OpenAIRE Content Provider Dashboard: the gateway to Open Science for all content providers

Title: OpenAIRE Research Community Dashboard: Enabling Open Science publishing for Research Communities and Research Infrastructures

WHEN

  • 18th September, 11:30 - Demo presentations (2 min.)
  • 18th September, 12:00 - Parallel Presentations (3 sessions x 20 min.)

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Paolo Manghi

Short CV

Paolo Manghi (PM) is a (PhD) Researcher in computer science at Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione (ISTI) of Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), in Pisa, Italy. His research areas of interest are today data e-infrastructures for science and scholarly communication infrastructures, with a focus on technologies supporting open science publishing within and across different disciplines, i.e. computational reproducibility and transparent evaluation of science. He is the Technical Director of the OpenAIRE infrastructure, coordinator of the
H2020 OpenAIRE-Connect project, and technical manager and researcher for the EU-H2020 infrastructure projects OpenAIRE-Advance, OpenAIRE2020, SoBigData.eu, PARTHENOS, EOSCpilot, Data4Impact, OpenUP, eInfraCentral, and RDA Europe series. He is an active member of Research Data Alliance WGs, member of EC projects advisory boards, of the ResearchObject.org, GreyNet, RD-Switchboard initiative, Open Science Monitor WG for the European Commission, and World Data System ITO Technical Advisory Committee.

About Workshops

Title: Open Science Graphs Interoperability Workshop
When: 17th September, 11:00

Title: How identifiers can help you in Open Science
When: 17 th September, 14:00

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Ignasi Labastida

Short CV

Dr Ignasi Labastida is working as the Head of the Research Unit at the University of Barcelona's Learning and Research Resources Centre (CRAI) where he also leads the Office for the Dissemination of Knowledge. He is currently chairing the Board of SPARC Europe and he is a member of the Steering Committee of the Info and Open Access Policy Group at the LERU (League of European Research Universities). He is the co-author of the LERU Roadmap for Research Data and the LERU Roadmap on Open Science.

About Demo

Title: Monitoring open access in a university

WHEN

  • 18th September, 11:30 - Demo presentations (2 min.)
  • 18th September, 12:00 - Parallel Presentations (3 sessions x 20 min.)

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David Suter

Short CV

David Suter is one of the co-founders at Materials Zone, a distributed research platform for scientific data and AI modeling. In charge of user experiences, he's tasked with automated bespoke interaction design for materials research.
A creative technologist, with a BAs in design and technology, his passion for researching usability is defined by data-centric design understanding what logic is best suited and can be served for scientists and researchers to promote positive peer review experiences.
He's committed to Materials Zone mission of creating synergistic relationships through the upcycling of data and usage of artificial intelligence (AI) / machine learning (ML) tools for materials discovery.

About Demo

Title: Distributed open research for AI analyses

WHEN

  • 18th September, 11:30 - Demo presentations (2 min.)
  • 18th September, 12:00 - Parallel Presentations (3 sessions x 20 min.)

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Leonard Mack

Short CV

Leonard Mack is an R&D scientist and project manager at the Fraunhofer FOKUS Institute and Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin. He coordinates the development of the Weizenbaum Institute’s research data infrastructure and also leads the strategic evolution of the Piveau data management tools, developed by the Fraunhofer FOKUS Institute. Previously, Leonard worked on (open) data and open science projects, including EOSC and OpenAIRE, at Jisc, the Open Data Institute, and Nesta. Leonard enjoys criss-crossing disciplines, having studied political science, law and computational social science at the universities of Oxford and Trier.

About Demo

Title: Sticky platforms: How to create user-driven research data services.

WHEN

  • 18th September, 11:30 - Demo presentations (2 min.)
  • 18th September, 12:00 - Parallel Presentations (3 sessions x 20 min.)

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Celia W.G. van Gelder

Short CV

Dr. Celia W.G. van Gelder is a chemist by training and obtained her PhD in Biochemistry and Bioinformatics. She is the Training Programme Manager of the Dutch Techcentre for Life Sciences (DTL), which is also the Dutch ELIXIR  Node. She is an education manager, coordinator and trainer with extensive experience in initiating and managing bioinformatics education projects at institute (Radboud University and Radboudumc Nijmegen), national (NBIC, DTL, ELIXIR-NL, BioSB Research School) and international level (co-lead ELIXIR Training Platform, Executive Board member of GOBLET).  Target audiences for training projects  include high school students and teachers (http://www.bioinformaticsatschool.eu/), BSc & MSc students,  PhD students and other life science researchers.
Within DTL, FAIR data training activities (https://www.dtls.nl/training-and-education/data-related-training/) have a prominent place and they are set up by the DTL/ELIXIR-NL community.

About Workshops

Title: Time to Professionalise Data Stewardship
When: 17th September, 11:00

Title: Making EOSC Training more FAIR
When: 17th September, 1st part (14:00), 2nd part (16:30)

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Martina Torma

Short CV

As LIBER’s Community Engagement and Communications Officer, Martina is responsible for stakeholder engagement activities related to European projects including the SSHOC project (https://www.sshopencloud.eu/) and supports the communications and outreach activities of LIBER.
Before joining LIBER, Martina worked as Marketing and Communications Coordinator at AMEA in the Netherlands and as Communications Consultant for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Kenya.
She believes that making scientific research accessible for everyone is crucial for an open and innovative society and she therefore very much enjoys contributing to LIBER’s community engagement and communications activities and supporting its efforts towards a better research environment and world-class research.
Martina has Hungarian-Polish roots and holds a Master’s Degree in Marketing and Communications as well as a Master’s Degree in Slavonic Languages and Cultures.

About Workshop

Title: Making EOSC Training more FAIR

When

17th September, 1st part (14:00), 2nd part (16:30)

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Friedel Grant

Short CV

Friedel Grant is Senior Communications Advisor at LIBER, Europe’s largest network of research libraries. With nearly 20 years of communications and engagement experience, Friedel knows the importance of producing material which is clear, concise and useful. She loves cutting through jargon to make key messages shine and has a knack for creating many types of content, from factsheets and reports to infographics, videos and webinars.
Through all of her work, Friedel believes in the power of community and loves collaborating with LIBER’s network to make a plan come together.She believes that everyone should have full and equal access to knowledge, and is proud to contribute to the work libraries are doing in this area through her role at LIBER.
Before joining LIBER, Friedel worked as a journalist for the Financial Times and Reuters and on Europeana’s Communications & Marketing team.Friedel holds a Masters in International Journalism from City University, and is working towards a Masters in Corporate Communications at Erasmus University.

About Workshop

Title: Making EOSC Training more FAIR

When

17th September, 1st part (14:00), 2nd part (16:30)

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Natalia Manola

Short CV

Natalia Manola is a research associate in “Athena” Research and Innovation Center and in the University of Athens, Department of Informatics & Telecommunications. She holds a Physics degree from the University of Athens, and an MS in Electrical and Computing Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She has several years of employment as a Software Engineer and Architect employed in the Bioinformatics commercial sector. She is the managing director of OpenAIRE (www.openaire.eu) since 2009, a pan European e-Infrastructure supporting open access in all scientific results, the coordinator of OpenMinTeD (www.openminted.eu) an infrastructure on text and data mining, and is now involved in the implementation of HELIX, the Greek e-Infrastructure for research. She has expertise in Open Science policies and implementation, and she currently serves in the EOSC Executive Board and the Open Science Policy Platform, an EC High Level Advisory Group to Commissioner Moedas to provide advice about the development and implementation of open science policy in Europe. Her research interests include the topics of e-Infrastructures development and management, scientific data management, data curation and validation, text and data mining complex data visualization, and research analytics. Natalia has also served in the EC Future Emerging Technology (FET) Advisory Group (2013-2017).

About Workshop

Title: Making EOSC Training more FAIR

When

17th September, 1st part (14:00), 2nd part (16:30)

See full programme here.