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Panel Session


Turning scattered knowledge into living knowledge graphs

10 March 2026, 09:20-10:10 CET


Stefania Amodeo (Chair), OpenAIRE

Dr. Stefania Amodeo has served as Engagement and Training Officer at OpenAIRE AMKE since 2023. As product manager of the OpenAIRE Graph, she bridges technical and user communities by collaborating with researchers, institutions, and partner projects to foster innovation. She leads dissemination, engagement, and exploitation activities for the SciLake project and participates in the corresponding working group for Horizon Europe INFRAEOSC projects. Prior to joining OpenAIRE, she worked as an astrophysics researcher for five years after earning her Ph.D. in the field.

Miriam Baglioni, ISTI-CNR

Miriam Baglioni is a Permanent Researcher at the Italian National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI) in Pisa. Since 2016, her research has centered on scholarly communication infrastructures, research data interoperability, and Open Science. She contributes to the design, development, and operation of the OpenAIRE Research Graph, where she is responsible for the enrichment process and dataset production, and contributes to ETL workflows and data curation. 

Nicolau Duran, SIRIS Academic

Nicolau Duran is a data scientist and researcher at SIRIS Academic, where his work supports evidence-based policymaking through data-driven analysis of higher education and research systems. He has contributed to the development of metadata enrichment and knowledge extraction pipelines for scholarly documents within the SciLake project. At SIRIS, he also coordinates research activities in the SIRIS Lab, an interdisciplinary space focused on open science, research mapping, researcher behaviour and ethics. He is currently an Industrial PhD candidate at Pompeu Fabra University.

Eric Jeangirard, MESRE

Eric Jeangirard is a data scientist at the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research. His work focuses on building data-driven tools (from algorithm development to cloud deployment) to support and steer public policies of the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research and French research institutions. Eric is also part of the OpenAlex advisory board.

Haris Papageorgiou, Athena Research Center

Haris Papageorgiou is Research Director at the Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) of ATHENA Research Center (www.athenarc.gr) leading an AI team. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering. He was the coordinator of the Technical Committee and Technical Operations Manager of the national Language Resources and Technologies Infrastructure clarin:el (www.clarin.gr), which is the Greek part of the European infrastructure CLARIN (www.clarin.eu), making language resources, technology and know-how available to research communities in the humanities and social sciences. Dr. Papageorgiou has worked as an expert in several aspects of STI (Science, Technology and Innovation) Policy analysis in the context of evaluation and assessment of R&I programmes and policies. He has served as a scientific officer in more than 50 European and national projects in various fields, including computational social and life sciences. He specialises in Artificial Intelligence, knowledge discovery and representation, machine/deep learning, knowledge mining and natural language processing, where he has published more than 140 scientific papers.