Dora has been engaged in European research framework programmes since 1999. She has a long-standing experience as coordinator of FP5, FP6 and FP7 multi-partner projects, as well as Project Technical Assistant (FP5 Quality of Life) of the European Commission. She was involved in several gender related FP projects: CEC WYS, PRAGES, WS DEBATE, UNICAFE, GENDERA (as coordinator), SHEMERA, EFFORTI. She was national expert in the FP7 INCO Program Committee. She has worked as project evaluator in FP6, FP7 and H2020. She represented Hungary in the Enwise (ENlarge Women and Science to East) expert group in the field of women and science. She was national representative in the COST Action genderSTE.

Dorottya Rigler was born in Budapest, Hungary. She graduated in economics at the Budapest Business School. She worked as an intern at the Government Office for Equal Opportunities. After that she earned a master’s degree in sociology and economics at the Corvinus University of Budapest, minoring in gender studies. She defended her thesis on the gender differences in the performance of Hungarian students in PISA 2000, focusing on the reading literacy skills. She spent 12 months working as a desk officer at the Department of European Union Affairs of the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office.

As a freelance sociologist she worked for the Research Institute of Economics and Enterprises of the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and wrote articles that were published in Hungarian journals. Since 2017 she has been in close professional cooperation with the Association of Hungarian Women in Science (Nok a Tudományban Egyesület – NaTE) and participated in the Horizon 2020 EFFORTI Project of the European Union, contributing to the creation of a framework for analysing the influence of gender equality measures in scientific research and development.

Ulrico Celentano holds a dott.ing. degree in electronics engineering from the University of Florence, Italy, a doctoral degree in technology from the University of Oulu, Finland, and has completed a block of studies in psychology at the University of Oulu. He is a research doctor at the Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Oulu, where he has been doing research on dependable systems, adaptive systems and artificial interacting cognitive entities. His present research interests include dependable systems (include data privacy and information security), as well as networked artificial intelligent systems, human cognition and the social interaction of the above. In addition to scientific publications, he holds five granted patents. Dr. Celentano was a WP leader or researcher in EU projects (FP5 ULTRAWAVES, FP6 NEWCOM, FP7 QoSMOS) and currently is the technical coordinator and WP4 leader for H2020 project HYFLIERS and a researcher in ECSEL SECREDAS (dealing with security and privacy in autonomous vehicles). He was co-PI for Finland-US project SOCRATE and has been the PI for Security and Software Engineering Research Center (S2ERC) Finland-US projects. Link to Ulrico Celentano: https://www.oulu.fi/university/researcher/ulrico-celentano

Matthias is a lawyer with Stelar Security Technology Law Research UG (haftungsbeschränkt). Stelar is research organisation based in Hamburg (Germany) specialised in research on data protection and privacy in the design and development of new ICT, including research on legal assessment methods for “Privacy by Design” of new security technologies and privacy management systems for manufacturers of ICT products and related service providers. STELAR has extensive expertise in legislation, GDPR, data protection, privacy and fundamental rights aspects of European ICT research and innovation projects and digital transformation projects (see website links below). As STELAR’s main researcher, Matthias gained valuable experience with the European consumer organisation for technical standardisation (ANEC) and the European Standardization Organizations CEN, CENELEC and ETSI and the International Standardization Organizations ISO and IEC concerning security, data protection, privacy and eHealth standardisation.
operando: www.operando.eu
project-shield: www.project-shield.eu

Jordi is a Catalan investigator who has devoted his researches to the cognitive and epistemic aspects of Philosophy of Computing, Philosophy of Sciences, Cognition, and Philosophy of AI. He has enjoyed research stays at Glaxo-Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (1997), J.F.K. School – Harvard University (2000), and Nishidalab – Kyoto University (2011, JSPS Grant). In 2019 won the Best presentation award of the HUAWEI Neuro-inspired, cognitive and unconventional computing workshop, Kazan (Russia). Jordi has three online free courses at COURSERA platform: Emotions: a Philosophical Introduction¸ ¿Cómo persuadir? Jugando con palabras, imágenes y números, Humanidades digitales. He also teach very summer at UAB’s Summer School Courses (6 credits, 55 hours) the topic “Critical Thinking”. UAB university: https://www.uab.cat/web/universitat-autonoma-de-barcelona-1345467954774.html
Researchgate: < a href=”https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jordi_Vallverdu”> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jordi_Vallverdu
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9975-7780
JSPS Researchers Network: https://www-jsps-net.jsps.go.jp/j_vallverdu

Diane H. Sonnenwald is Emerita Professor and Emerita Head of School, School of Information and Communication Studies, University College Dublin, Ireland. She currently is a consultant to the European Commission and CILIP, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Science Professional, and other organisations. She has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor and Endowed Chair at National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, Taiwan. She has also held professorial and visiting appointments at the University of North Carolina, University of Copenhagen (Denmark), University of Borås (Sweden), and University of Tampere (Finland). Before joining academia, Diane worked at Bell Communications Research, Bell Laboratories and Warner-Lambert Company.

Sonnenwald’s research focuses on collaboration, socio-technical design methods, technology evaluation, and human information interaction in a variety of contexts. Diane has authored or co-authored over 100 scholarly, peer-reviewed publications and edited four books. Her latest edited book, Theory Development in the Information Sciences, is published by the University of Texas Press. Sonnenwald has been an invited keynote speaker at conferences, universities, national research labs and businesses in 15 countries. She has served on the editorial boards of six international journals and on advisory boards at the University of Michigan, Oxford University, University of Warwick, University of North Carolina, and University College Dublin. She also served as a director of two multi-disciplinary research centres and as president of the Association for Information Science and Technology. She has been awarded over 20 grants from national and international foundations, corporations, and funding agencies, including the (US) National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, National Library of Medicine, the European Science Foundation, the Motorola Foundation and the HW Wilson Foundation.

The Association of Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) recently awarded Sonnenwald the 2020 Award of Merit, which is a lifetime achievement award that recognises sustained contribution and achievements in the field of information science. Other awards and recognition include the 2016 ASIS&T Watson Davis Award, the 2014 Elfreda A. Chatman Research Award, the 2013 ASIS&T Lecture Series Award, Muhlenberg College Alumni Achievement Award, Springfield High School Achievers Hall of Fame Alumni Award, a Fulbright Professorship, U.S. Army Research Laboratory Scientific Contribution Award, University of North Carolina Junior Faculty Research Award, Association for Library and Information Science Education Research Methodology Best Paper Award, and the Bell Communications Research Award of Excellence. She has a PhD from Rutgers University.

Karen Yeung is an expert in the regulation and governance of, and through, new and emerging technologies. Her research focuses on the legal, ethical, social and democratic implications of a suite of technologies associated with automation and the ‘computational turn’, including big data analytics, artificial intelligence (including various forms of machine learning), distributed ledger technologies (including blockchain) and robotics. She is actively involved in several technology policy and related initiatives at the national, European and international levels, including as a former member of the EU High Level Expert Group on AI and the Council of Europe’s Expert Committee on human rights dimensions of automated data processing and different forms of artificial intelligence (MSI-AUT). Karen occupies a number of strategic and advisory roles for various non-profit organisations and research programmes concerned with responsible governance of technology. Her recent academic publications include Algorithmic Regulation (co-edited with Martin Lodge) Oxford University Press (2019) and The Oxford Handbook of Law, Regulation and Technology (co-edited with Roger Brownsword and Eloise Scotford) in 2017. She is on the editorial boards of the Modern Law Review, Big Data & Society, Public Law and Technology and Regulation. .

Since 2000, Julius Stuller has been a deputy director at the Institute of Computer Science, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague. He is an expert in conceptual modelling and database design. Julius has a long-term teaching experience at various universities lecturing in database systems, knowledge base systems, data structures and databases, semantic web technologies and in pure and applied mathematics (Technical University Liberec – Faculty of Mechatronics, Informatics and Interdisciplinary Studies, Department of Software Engineering; Czech Technical University in Prague – Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Department of Mathematics; the University of Centre – Faculty of Sciences and National School for Engineers, Monastir, Tunisia). Julius has been active in various professional bodies (CEPIS, IFIP, IT STAR, ERCIM), conference organization (long-term SOFSEM Steering Committee chair, several program and organizing committees) and national/international grants.

Antonella Fresa is director of implementations at Promoter SRL, an SME located in the area of Pisa. In this role, she is technical coordinator and communication manager of national and European projects on digital cultural heritage and project manager of the digitalmeetsculture.net magazine published by Promoter. Her interests lay in particular on virtual museums, digital cultural archives, participatory approaches, smart cities, urban regeneration, digital preservation and e-infrastructures. She regularly serves as independent expert of the European Commission and of national and regional research bodies.

She is Vice-President of Photoconsortium International Association for valuing photographic heritage, Enterprise Fellow at Coventry University and founding member of IDEA International Digital Epigraphy Association. The interest of Antonella in the CSI-COP project is grounded in her daily practices of work. Being mostly carried out online, using a wide range of cloud-based services, international research and innovation activities represent a relevant case where a better understanding of what information is tracked online and a sound privacy protection in the collection of data are very important factors. Furthermore, the novel dimension of citizen science in this domain provides the opportunity to reflect, together with the project’s partners, on the future of the digital transformation, particularly nowadays, looking towards the digital life in the post COVID-19 crisis.

Amardeo Sarma is General Manager at NEC Laboratories Europe in Germany, where he is responsible for R&D in the areas Security, Networking and Standardization. He is Chairman of the Trust in Digital Life Association (TDL). Amardeo has published in various areas including software engineering, communication protocols and identity management. Amardeo was previously Chairman at the ITU-T and is a member of the ACM and AAAS, and is an IEEE Senior Member. He is also active in science communication and a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI). Amardeo holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and a Master’s degree from Technical University of Darmstadt.

(Photo acknowledgement: Evelin Frerk)