Gergely Sipos
Head of Services • Solutions • Support
Gergely Sipos is the Head of the Services, Solutions and Support department at the EGI Foundation. He is responsible for the provisioning and innovation of services owned by the EGI Foundation, and for overseeing the operational status of the EGI infrastructure.
The three teams of his department, with the help of EGI’s national e-infrastructures, perform user community engagement, requirement collection & analysis, service piloting and service customisation for communities, as well as deliver operational services, training and support. Gergely holds MSc and PhD in computer science with specialisation in management, from the University of Miskolc (Hungary).
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Eva Sciacca
Technology Researcher • Supervision Of Graduate Students
Eva Sciacca is a technologist at the National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF). His recent research activities include big data and visual analytics, storage and computing systems that exploit distributed infrastructure.
She has been engaged in several projects funded by the European Union (such as VIALACTEA, INDIGO-DataCloud, AENEAS, EOSC-Pilot and NEANIAS) over the past five years and is actively involved in the IT activities of the ESA GAIA mission, Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) and the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and their precursors.
Yoav Yair
Professor • Computer Science • NTUA, Greece
Prof. Yoav Yair is the former Dean of the School of Sustainability at Reichman University (IDC). His main research fields include atmospheric electricity, lightning (on Earth and other planets), space weather, solar-terrestrial relations and transient luminous events (sprites).
He conducted space-based experiments from the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station and was project manager for the Israeli astronaut mission in 2003 (the MEIDEX). He is the author of several text books in the atmospheric sciences and authored (and co-) over 125 refereed papers.
Prof. Yair is also an expert on ICT and Learning Technologies, and served as head of the Center for Technology in Distance Education at the Open University of Israel (2004-2009), and Dean of Development and Learning Technologies there (2009-2012), where he supervised the testing, dissemination and research of various new technologies in higher education, with focus on video, digital books and mobile reading devices.
