Alessandra is a community builder with a strong passion for interaction and content design. As the Community Manager at 4TU.ResearchData, she also works as a consultant specializing in strategy development and fostering engagement with community members.

Data librarian in street level academic bureaucrat drag.

Directeur du Centre de Calcul Régional ROMEO, Expert R&T HPC et IA, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne.

Bob Dröge has been working as an HPC expert at the University of Groningen since 2011. He is passionate about solving complex issues, helping out other people, and making complex tasks easier, which come in useful in his role to provide user support and training to the users of the university's HPC facilities. He is also the work package lead for the Dutch Science Data Centre infrastructure as part of ESA's Euclid space mission, one of the founders of and very actively involved in the EESSI project, and a project partner in the MultiXscale EuroHPC Centre of Excellence.

Dr Bogdana Huma is an Associate Professor of Language and Communication in the Faculty of Humanities at VU Amsterdam. She is passionate about Open Science and has co-authored the article 'One Size Doesn't Fit All: Lessons From Interaction Analysis on Tailoring Open Science Practices to Qualitative Research'. Between April ’24 – March ’25, she led the NWO-funded project 'Building a Community of Practice for Open Naturally Occurring Data'. In October '24, she initiated the project 'Mapping the Landscape of Open Science: Tensions, Challenges, and Hidden Moralities' funded via a Starters Grant.

Research Data Specialist at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Trainer in RDM and Digital Tools, Project Lead and Open Science at Delft University of Technology.

Claudia van Kruistum is a lead product manager at SURF for the data services.

At the Research Data Support department of the Utrecht University, fostering data reuse is high on the agenda. At this SURF Research Day session, the following delegates will represent our team: Coosje Veldkamp (policy advisor FAIR data & software, spearheading the data reuse focus area ), Lilli van Wielink (team coordinator), Neha Moopen (data manager), and Stefan Einarson (data specialist).

Product lead @ SURF
Advanced computing | HPC / AI / Cloud | Portfolio & product strategy

Librarian at Utrecht University

Project lead Research information and Open Science at SURF

Elli is a product manager & Greece OpenAIRE Co-Ordinator at Athena Research & Innovation Center. She is passionate about Open Science and data management and advocates data and information science strategies. She is very interested in working at the interface of strategy, stakeholder communities (e.g. user groups, partners) and IT. Colleagues describe her as open minded, teamplayer, responsible research & innovation enthusiast and always agile to learn.

Service Manager at Eindhoven University of Technology

Garrett is a data steward in the Data Team of the Faculty of Geosciences and an active member of the Utrecht University DCC. Garrett helps researchers with Python programming, GIS, and photography.

Gerben ter Riet is a clinical epidemiologist with a keen interest in topics at the intersection of methodology and research integrity. He is currently a member of the Committee for Research Integrity at AUAS. Since 2019, together with Anne de Jong (2024 SURF Support Champion), he runs the Open Science Support Desk at the AUAS, Faculty of Health, Sports & Exercise. Gerben actively supports Scientist Rebellion in their struggle to speed up implementation of effective climate policies, avert ecological breakdown and bring about climate justice. Anne de Jong serves in the City Council of Diemen.

Dr. Rer. Nat. Julio Alexandrino de Oliveira Filho is a Brazilian-Dutch geek scientist, absolutely passionate about science and technology. His main drive is the automated, model-driven design of complex and adaptive cyber-physical systems. In GPT-NL, Julio is a lead system architect, responsible for the implementation and execution of the curation and training pipeline.

Katrien Keune studied chemistry at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). She did her PhD research at the AMOLF institute in Amsterdam leading to her doctorate at the UvA in 2005. She was a postdoc researcher at AMOLF, the National Gallery in London and the Cultural Heritage Agency in Amsterdam. She worked as a researcher at TU Delft and at the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences at the UvA. In 2015, she joined the Rijksmuseum where she became Head of Science in 2019. Since 2018, Keune has held a part-time appointment as associate professor at the UvA.

Liz has a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Manchester. She worked as an ESO Fellow in Chile for the largest array of telescopes in the world, the Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA). She then worked at Leiden Observatory in The Netherlands as a researcher and support manager of ALMA. After 12 years in research she switched careers and became a research data steward for the Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM). She is now the Data Steward’s Team Lead of the Eindhoven University of Technology. She is an expert on data management, open science, and public engagement.

Chief Technology Officer at ODISSEI

Mark Terlien is a lecturer and researcher in the field of remote sensing, IoT and spatial data science working at HAS green academy. He has a background in physical geography, Geo-ICT, Geographical Information Systems and spatial data management. Mark’s research activities are focused on the use of remote sensing and IoT sensors and networks like The Things Network (TTN) to enhance sustainability efforts and generate business value.

Researcher Data Ecosystems at TNO

Mike is a member of the Data Expert team at Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), an institute of the KNAW & NWO. He has been involved in specifying and creating research infrastructures since 2004 in the Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities. He is currently co-leading the work package developing FAIR metrics and assessment tools across research outputs, such as data, semantic artefacts and software, in the FAIR-IMPACT project.

I'm Product Owner for the Grand Challenge platform, developed at the Radboud University Medical Center. Grand Challenge is a platform for the end-to-end development of AI in medical imaging., an open-source, cloud-based initiative.

Programme Director in Heritage, Humanities and Social Sciences Research at DANS.

As Technical Lead at Health-RI, Niels is responsible for designing the Dutch national health data infrastructure for research, policy, and innovation. Together with a team of architects, program managers, and software engineers, he ensures that the architecture is effectively designed and implemented. The vision, expertise, and resulting outcomes are currently applied to HDAB

My professional career spans more than 25 years in academic libraries in Belgium (Ghent), USA (Los Alamos) and Sweden (Lund). I was always involved in library automation or library science related projects as software developer, architect and more generally innovator. Since 2021 I am doing a PhD in computer science and UGent-IMEC IDLab on scholarly communication on the decentralized web.

For more information: https://patrickhochstenbach.net

Hoofd Bestuursondersteuning en Strategie (B&S) bij NWO-I.

Peter promoveerde in 2009 in de computationele natuurkunde en deed tot 2016 als postdoc onderzoek bij EPFL (Zwitserland) en Aalto (Finland). Daarna ging hij aan de slag bij NWO, in verschillende rollen bij zowel de domeinorganisatie als bij NWO-I.

Member of the expert section of DANS
Research data management specialist.
https://pure.knaw.nl/portal/en/persons/rené-van-horik

Developer of open science data infrastructures at TU Delft

Adviseur and coordinator at SURF

She is an Assistant Professor of Digital Twins within the Physical and Space Geodesy section within the Geoscience and Remote Sensing department at TU Delft. Previous to Delft, she had held affiliations with University of Colorado, Boulder, ESSIC at University of Maryland / NASA Goddard Institute for Space Science, Lamont-Doherty Labs and City University of New York.

Tycho Hofstra is the community manager of Network Research Data Support at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He also provides workshops and training on data management, writing data management plans and open science.

Vanessa Evers is a full professor and Chair of Human Media Interaction at the computer science department of the University of Twente in the Netherlands. She is also founder and scientific director of the DesignLab at the University of Twente.
Vanessa Evers is a visiting professor of Computer Science at Nanyang technological University in Singapore and was the founding Director of the Institute for Science and Technology for Humanity (2019-2022).
She received an M.SC. in Information Systems from the University of Amsterdam, and a Ph. D. in Educational Technology from the Open University, UK.