Grigoris Antoniou
ICS FORTH
Greece

Grigoris Antoniou is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Crete, and Head of the Information Systems Laboratory at FORTH-ICS, the top-rated research institute in Greece. Previously he has held professorial appointments at Griffith University, Australia, and the University of Bremen, Germany. His research interests lie in knowledge representation and semantic technologies, and their application to web information systems and ambient intelligence. He has published over 150 technical papers in scientific journals and conferences. He is author of three books with international publishers (MIT Press, Addison-Wesley); his book "A Semantic Web Primer" is internationally the standard textbook in the area, and has been or is about to be translated to Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Spanish and Greek. He is member of three editorial boards of journals, and has served in numerous programme committees. Among others, he is PC-Chair of the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010) and General Chair of ESWC 2011. Since 2008 he is member of the ECCAI Board. In recognition of his work, he was elected an ECCAI Fellow in 2006, joining the prestigious list of the best AI researchers in Europe.

Experience in successful proposals:

He has led a number of national and international research projects, and has participated in many more. Among others, he is Activity Leader (Research) for the recently funded European Network of Excellence PlanetData on large-scale semantic data management (2010-2014).

Soren Auer
University of Leipzig
Germany

Dr. Sören Auer studied Mathematics and Computer Science in Dresden, Hagen and Ekaterinburg / Russia. Before pursuing a scientific career Sören was managing director of adVIS GmbH, a Dresden-based Internet and IT service provider until 2003. In 2006 he obtained his doctorate in Computer Science from Universität Leipzig. From 2006-2008 he was working with the database research group at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Currently, he leads the research group Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW) at the department Business Information Systems (University of Leipzig). His research interests include Semantic Web technologies, knowledge representation, engineering and management, agile methodologies as well as databases and information systems. He aims to combine theoretical results with high-impact practical applications. Two of his publications from 2007, for example, rank in the top 100 of most cited computer science publications in that year (according to Citeseer).

Experience in successful proposals:

Sören led / is leading several large scale collaborative research projects such as German BmBF funded project SoftWiki or EU-FP7 funded project OntoWiki. Sören is founder (respectively co-founder) of several high-impact research and community projects such as the Wikipedia semantification project DBpedia, the open-source innovation platform Cofundos.org or the social Semantic Web toolkit OntoWiki. He frequently serves as member of research funding panels for the EU's PSP, FP7-ICT and eContentplus calls.

Davide Cerri
STI Innsbruck
Austria

Davide Cerri is a researcher at the Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He graduated at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 2001. Before joining STI Innsbruck in 2009 he worked for several years as a researcher at CEFRIEL (ICT technology transfer centre of Politecnico di Milano).

Experience in successful proposals:

He has been involved in national and European research projects for many years, including COIN (EU FP7), eFreight (EU FP7), SUPPORT (EU FP7), SHAPE (EU FP7), TripCom (EU FP6), MAIS and NeP4B (Italian FIRB), as well as in consulting and technology transfer activities.

John Davies
BT Innovate
United Kingdom

Dr John Davies leads the Semantic Technology research group at BT. Current interests centre around the application of semantic web technology to business intelligence, information integration, knowledge management and service-oriented environments. He co-founded the European Semantic Web conference series. He is also chairman of the European Semantic Technology Conference and a Vice-President of the Semantic Technology Institute. He chairs the NESSI Semantic Technology working group. He has written and edited many papers and books in the areas of the semantic technology, web-based information management and knowledge management; and has served on the program committee of numerous conferences in these and related areas. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Chartered Engineer. Earlier research at BT led to the development of a set of knowledge management tools which are the subject of a number of patents. These tools were spun out of BT and are now marketed by Infonic Ltd, of which Dr Davies is Group Technical Advisor. Dr Davies received the BT Award for Technology Entrepreneurship for his contribution to the creation of Infonic.

Experience in successful proposals:

He is Project Director of the €12m ACTIVE EU integrated project, and was previously project coordination in the SEKT project. He has also participated in several projects and served on the Advisory Board of OntoWeb and NeON. Dr Davies has served as EC project reviewer.

Prof. John Domingue
The Open University
United Kingdom

Prof. John Domingue is the Deputy Director of the Knowledge Media Institute at The Open University and the President of STI International, a semantics focused networking organization with 50 members. He has published over 160 refereed articles in the areas of Artificial Intelligence and the Web and his current work is focused on how semantic technology can automate the management, development and use of Web services. Prof. Domingue is also Chair of the Steering Committee for the European Semantic Web Conference Series, and Co-Chair of the Conceptual Models of Services Working Group within STI. Prof. Domingue is also serves on the editorial boards for the Journal of Web Semantics and the Applied Ontology Journal.

Experience in successful proposals:

Currently he serves as the Scientific Director of SOA4All a 13M Euro project which aims at creating a Web of billions of services. Within the Future Internet arena he helps coordinate the Future Internet Service Offer Working Group within the Future Internet Assembly - a collaboration between over 100 European projects with a combined budget of over 600M Euros aiming to develop a next-generation Internet.

Anna Fensel
FTW / STI Innsbruck
Austria

Dr. Anna Fensel (previous name: Anna V. Zhdanova) is a Senior Researcher at FTW – Telecommunications Research Center Vienna and STI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, Austria. Anna has been a doctoral student in Informatics at the University of Innsbruck has defended her PhD thesis “An approach to ontology construction and its application to community portals” in 2006. She has received a diploma in Mathematics and Computer Science equivalent to the Masters degree in 2003 from Novosibirsk State University, Russia. She has been a co-organizer or a Program Committee member of around 30 scientific events, and a reviewer for numerous journals. She is an author of ca. 50 refereed research papers in international journals, conference and workshop proceedings.

Experience in successful proposals:

In FP7 Call 3, she has been a project proposals evaluator for the European Commission, within Challenge 4. Anna has been extensively involved in European and national projects related to Semantic technologies. Currently she is a coordinator of FFG project SESAME and a local project manager of FP7 IST STREP m:Ciudad for FTW, as well as a local project manager for AAL project PeerAssist, FP 7 project PlanetData and several national-funded projects at STI. Earlier she worked as a researcher at the University of Surrey, UK (local project manager of FP6 IST IP SPICE), and at DERI, University of Innsbruck, Austria (local project manager for FP5 IST project Esperonto and a technical contributor/deliverable leader for FP6 NoE KnowledgeWeb, FP5 hTechSight, FP6 IP DIP and FFG project SemNetMan).

Dieter Fensel
STI Innsbruck
Austria

Prof Dieter Fensel studied mathematics, social science and computer science at Berlin, and received his doctorate in economics in 1993, studying under Dr Rudi Studer at the University of Karlsruhe. (Title: Die Wissen-Erfassungs- und Repräsentationssprache KARL). In 1998 he received his habilitation and started work at the Institute for Applied Computer Science and Formal Description Procedures (AIFB), focusing, inter alia, on knowledge management and Formal languages. Subsequently he worked as an assistant professor at Amsterdam, and as a professor at NUI Galway (Ireland) (2003-2006) and at the University of Innsbruck. At NUI Galway he worked within the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) on semantic web services technologies. Since 2003 he has been the director of DERI Innsbruck, which in December 2007 was renamed to Semantic Technologies Institute Innsbruck (STI Innsbruck).

Experience in successful proposals:

Prof Fensel has published numerous articles in technical periodicals, has been giving key note speeches and co-organized conferences. He has been and is involved in several national and international research projects such as LarKc, SOA4All and Insemtives.

Juan Miguel Gomez
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Spain

Marco Grobelnik
J. Stefan Institute
Slovenia

Experience in successful proposals:

Mr Grobelnik has participated in over 25 EU projects in FP5, FP6 and FP7. He has also acted as evaluator as well as project reviewer in FPs 6 and 7 over 10 times.

Nuria De Lama Sanchez
ATOS Research
Spain

Nuria de Lama is Telecommunications engineer (Telecommunications Engineering University from the Polytechnic University of Madrid). She has complemented her studies with management courses and studies on different technical areas ranging from wired and wireless communications to application development. After several years working as responsible person for International projects in an SME environment she joined the research department of Atos Origin in 2005, first as Head of the Industrial and Rural Development Unit, becoming Head of the Semantics, Software and Services Unit one year later. She has been recently appointed Representative of Atos Research and Innovation to the European Commission, holding responsibilities of coordination of research efforts in Atos and business development at European level, including the area of Future Internet.

Experience in successful proposals:

Nuria is active member of several working groups within the NESSI Platform and has been chair of the Service engineering and SOA group in INES (Spanish Platform on Software and Services) as well as some others in the Collaborative working environments domain. She has also acted as rapporteur of the OISPG group, industrial group supported by the European Commission and focused on Open Innovation. Since 2000, she has participated in over 30 EU projects. Besides that, she has collaborated as project reviewer and proposal evaluator for the European Commission in several occasions.

Lyndon Nixon
STI International
Austria

Dr. Lyndon J B Nixon joined STI International as senior postdoctoral researcher in November 2008, following research positions at Fraunhofer FOKUS and the Free University of Berlin. His project activities mainly cover Web technology deployment, use case management, technology roadmapping, dissemination and exploitation support and training.

Experience in successful proposals:

He works as a workpackage leader in the European IP NoTube (semantic television) and Infrastructures project SEALS (benchmarking semantic tools), as well as supports Future Internet Austria (platform for Future Internet activities in Austria). Since June 2010, he is project coordinator for the Future Internet support action SOFI. Later this year he will start work in the European Network of Excellence PlanetData as well as coordinator of the Austrian project SmartReality. He has acted as a project evaluator for the EU FP7 and led several proposals in the current work programme.

Elena Simperl
Karlsruhe Institute
of Technology (KIT)
Germany

I am currently working as a senior researcher at the Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). I hold a PhD in Computer Science from the Free University of Berlin and a Diploma in Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich. I have held research and teaching positions at the Technical University of Munich (2002-2003), the Free University of Berlin (2003-2007), and the Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck at the University of Innsbruck, Austria (2007-2009) before joining KIT in January this year.My primary domain of research is semantic technologies. In particular I am interested in socially and economically-motivated aspects of creating and using semantically enabled content on the Web, and in paradigms, methods and techniques facilitating and encouraging large-scale collaboration and participation.

Experience in successful proposals:

I had the opportunity to approach these topics in over 15 European and national projects. Among these projects I would like to highlight Knowledge Web (EU FP6 NoE), TripCom (EU FP6 STREP), Salero (EU FP6 IP), LarKC (EU FP7 IP), Active (EU FP7 IP), SOA4All (EU FP7 IP), Service Web 3.0 (EU FP7 SA), and INSEMTIVES (EU FP7 STREP), among which I coordinated or am coordinating TripCom, Service Web 3.0 and INSEMTIVES. In the second half of 2010 this list will be complemented by two new projects, PlanetData (EU FP7 Noe) and RENDER (EU FP7 STREP), both of which I have the pleasure to coordinate.

Ioan Toma works as a researcher at STI Innsbruck, Austria. His current research areas include Semantic Web Services and Semantic Web, with focus on modeling and ranking of services based on non-functional properties.Before joining STI Innsbruck, he obtained his graduated engineer of computer science (Dipl. Eng.) and M.S. titles from Technical University of Cluj-Napoca. He published more than 50 articles as book chapters, conferences, workshops and journals articles. Ioan Toma co-organized multiple workshops, including Non-Functional Properties and Service Level Agreements in Service Oriented Computing workshop and was a member of several conference and workshop program committees.

Experience in successful proposals:

Ioan has been involved in several research projects at European and Austrian level (i.e., SEALS, ENVISION, LARCK, SOA4All, ServiceWeb3.0, ASG, DIP, Grisino). He has coordinated two successful proposals for project enlargement (FP7 Call 5, Objective 9.5).