Keynote Speakers
Member of EOSC Board of Directors
Ignacio Blanquer is a member of the Computer System Department at UPV since 1999 (full professor since 2019). He is a researcher of the Grid and High-Performance Computing group of the Institute of Instrumentation for Molecular Imaging (I3M) since 1993 and became the leader of this group in 2015 and the vice-director of the I3M in 2019.
He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Association. He has served as an expert to the Spanish Ministry of Science in e-Science. He is also the Spanish delegate of the e-Infrastructures Reflection Group (e-IRG). He has coordinated three European projects on cloud applications to science. He serves as work package coordinator in European projects related to medical imaging data such as PRIMAGE, CHAIMELEON and EUCAIM, being the technical lead of the Central Hub in EUCAIM. He is also a senior researcher in the Biomedical Imaging Research Group at La Fe hospital in Valencia and vice-president of the IMAGING foundation.
Head of EMBL Grenoble
Kristina earned a PhD from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and pursued postdoctoral research at the University of Pavia and EMBL Heidelberg, Germany. In 1999, she became Head of the Structural Biology Laboratory at Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy. By 2004, she was a Full Professor of molecular structural biology at the University of Vienna. In 2009, she was appointed Chair of the Department of Structural and Computational Biology at the Max Perutz Lab. Since July 2022, she has led EMBL Grenoble.
Professional website: www.embl.org
Head of Business Development at ESRF
Ed Mitchell, since initial training at Oxford in molecular biophysics, has spent over 25 years at The European Synchrotron on various projects, including macromolecular crystallography beamline scientist, project lead for the preparation of the €250M ESRF Upgrade Programme and general manager for the international Partnership for Structural Biology. He is now charged with the Business Development Office, which has the mission to open the ESRF’s door to industry via services and tech transfer, and collaboration via European and national programmes. Beyond industry relations, Ed is joint coordinator of the Horizon Europe SUNSTONE project, continuing Europe’s long-time support to the Middle Eastern “SESAME” synchrotron and is a member of the African Light Source Foundation Executive Committee, which is working actively for a light source to be built in Africa.
Professional website: www.esrf.fr, www.linkedin.com