Natalia Manola (Chair), OpenAIRE

Natalia holds a Physics degree from the University of Athens, and an MS in Electrical and Computing Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and has worked for several years as a Software Engineer and Architect in the Bioinformatics commercial sector. She has expertise in Open Science policies and implementation, having served in the EOSC Executive Board 2019-20, and in the Open Science Policy Platform (2016-17), an EC High Level Advisory Group provide advice about the development and implementation of open science policy in Europe. As OpenAIRE CEO, she works at the intersection of open science, research policy, and digital infrastructures. Her expertise lies in building and governing open, trusted systems for research information, including scholarly communication, research assessment, and data infrastructures. She focus on aligning technology, policy, and community practices to support open, transparent, and impactful research across Europe and beyond.

Bianca Kramer, Sesame Open Science

Bianca Kramer is Executive Director of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information, an initiative she helped organize and coordinate. She has a background in research communication and libraries, having worked as scholarly communication/open science librarian at Utrecht University Library for 15 years, before moving to an independent consulting/research analyst role at Sesame Open Science, with a focus on open science, open metadata and open infrastructure - a role she combines with her activities for the Barcelona Declaration.

Andreas Kolleger, Neo4j

Andreas is a technological humanist. Starting at NASA, Andreas designed systems from scratch to support science missions. Then in Zambia, he built medical informatics systems to apply technology for social good. Now with Neo4j as the Director of Applied AI Research, he is democratizing graph databases to validate and extend our intuitions about how the world works.

Francesco Osborne, Open University

Francesco Osborne is a Senior Research Fellow at the Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University (UK), where he leads the Scholarly Knowledge Mining (SKM) team (http://skm.kmi.open.ac.uk). He is also an Associate Professor at the Business School of the University of Milano-Bicocca. His research focuses on Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Graphs, Natural Language Processing, and Metascience. His work spans multiple application domains, including scientific research, media analysis, sustainability, finance, robotics, big data, tourism, and astronomy. He has authored over 160 peer-reviewed publications and has coordinated several high-impact projects funded by major public research bodies as well as leading private-sector organisations.

Nick Yakovets, TUe

Nick Yakovets is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), where he leads research on graph databases and data-intensive systems. His work focuses on the foundations of graph data management, efficient query processing, and engineering high-performance graph database systems. He is co-author of the book "Querying Graphs" (Morgan & Claypool) and has published in top-tier venues including ACM SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, and EDBT. He is the primary investigator of the SciLake project at TU/e. He received his PhD from York University, Canada.