Demonstrations of SciLake tools through pilot case studies

Jakob Rager, HES-SO Valais-Wallis (HEVS)

Prof. Dr. Jakob Rager is a transdisciplinary industrial research engineer with extensive experience at the intersection of open science and energy in system engineering. He has made significant contributions to various projects aimed at advancing open access and open-source solutions in the energy sector with Hotmaps, EnerMaps, EraNet OpenGIS4ET (CitiWatts) and SciLake based on FAIR data.

Leily Rabbani, Karolinska Institutet

Leily Rabbani is a Senior Research Infrastructure Specialist at the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery in Karolinska Institute. She has completed a PhD in Bioinformatics at Max Planck Institute for Biology, Tübingen. Afterwards, she has worked several years at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg im Breisgau as a core facility Bioinformatician where she was involved in developing tools and next-generation sequencing (NGS) data analyses. In her current job, she analyzes large-scale short/long-read NGS data as well as implements and tests new technologies with the focus of studying chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).

Afroditi Anagnostopoulou, HIT/CERTH

Dr Afroditi Anagnostopoulou is a Research Director at the Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT) / Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), overseeing the “Economic and Social Impacts of Transport Systems” laboratory. She is also Head of the Unit on “Transport Economics and Environment, Maritime and Air Transport” at HIT, and serves as the Gateway Advisor of Transport for Open Research Europe.

Archana Golla, University of Oslo

Archana Golla (PhD) is a researcher at the Neural Systems Laboratory, University of Oslo. Her work centers on data curation within the EBRAINS research infrastructure (www.ebrains.eu), where she collaborates with researchers to ensure that neuroscience data are shared optimally, FAIRly, and responsibly. She serves as a neuroscience domain expert in the SciLake project, working with knowledge management experts to develop an integrative scientific knowledge graph for neuroscience.

Athanasios Ballis, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS)

Athanasios Ballis received his Diploma from the Computer Engineer and Informatics Department from the University of Patras (2005), and his MSc in Informatics of Life Science (2009) from the same University, publishing the thesis entitled “Upgrade of a database of facial emotional expressions and creation of a database management system”. He has been a research associate in several Organizations acquiring in parallel moderate working experience as a web developer. He has been cooperating with ICCS since January 2019 as a scientific project manager in the ITS/CCAM domain involved in several related projects. He has been a member of the Greek Technical Chamber since 2006.