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OpenAIRE Graph
The Team

Meet the researchers, engineers, data scientists, and managers who work daily to keep the OpenAIRE Graph running and up to date.

Alane Brunschweiger

Communication and Branding Officer
Dissemination and conception of Graph communications and branding guidelines

Alessia Bardi

Data Engineer, Data Scientist, Data Curator
Design of the pipeline for the materialisation and data quality evaluation of the Graph

Andrea Dell Amico

Senior Administrator
Computing and storage infrastructure (CNR), maintaining the Hadoop and ElasticSearch clusters

Andrea Mannocci

Data Scientist
Data analysis and quality of data

Claudio Atzori

Lead Data Engineer, Data Curator, Data Scientist
Manager of the technical infrastructure dedicated to the construction, enrichment and provision for the OpenAIRE Graph

Dimitris Pappas

AI Scientist/Engineer
Big data analysis, Developing Machine Learning models

Eleni Zacharia-Lamprou

Machine Learning Engineer
Implementation of Text and Data mining (TDM) modules, used in the graph enrichment phase.

Giambattista Bloisi

Senior Data Engineer, Data Scientist
Engineering of Graph provision workflow, monitoring tools for Graph quality

Gina Pavone

Data curator
Validating graph data quality, deduplication of organisations.

Haris Papageorgiou

Head of SciNoBo Group
Language technology for scalable systems and big data infrastructures, Head of research for the SciNoBo tools

Harry Dimitropoulos

Data Engineer, Machine learning engineer, Data Scientist
Lead the Text and Data Mining (TDM) modules used in the Graph enrichment phase

Ioanna Grypari

Data Scientist
Analysis of the data to identify Open Science indicators for funders, research communities, institutions, and scientists

Ioannis Foufoulas

Data Engineer, Machine learning engineer, Data Scientist
Implementation of Text and Data Mining (TDM) modules used in the Graph enrichment phase

Katerina Iatropoulou

Senior Software Developer
Management of application programming interfaces - APIs

Lampros Smyrnaios

Machine Learning Engineer, Developer
Implementation of Text and Data Mining (TDM) modules, used in the Graph enrichment phase

Leonidas Pispiringas

Data Curator
Metadata harvesting, harmonisation, and quality control

Marek Horst

Senior Data Engineer, Machine learning engineer
Quality of services, OpenAIRE Mining Infrastructure manager

Michal Politowski

Senior Administrator
Quality of services, software updates, service operation management, deployment and monitoring of services

Michele Artini

Data Engineer, Developer
OpenOrgs design and development, software developer for Graph generation workflows and related micro-services

Michele De Bonis

Machine Learning Engineer
Deduplication phase and the creation of algorithms to identify groups of data into the Graph.

Miriam Baglioni

Data Engineer, Data Curator, Data Scientist
Manager of the inference by deduction chain of the graph provision pipeline, and the periodic dumps of the OpenAIRE graph

Paolo Manghi

OpenAIRE Chief Technology Officer
Design, roadmapping of the OpenAIRE infrastructure services, their operation, evolution, and interaction with third-parties.

Petros Stavropoulos

AI Scientist/Engineer
Implementation of Natural Language Processing (NLP) modules

Sabeel Shah

Data Curator
Metadata harvesting, harmonisation, and quality control

Sandro La Bruzzo

Data Engineer, Data Scientist
Graph enrichment steps including the generation of DOIBoost

Serafeim Chatzopoulos

Data Engineer, Developer
Software developer for Graph generation workflows and related microservices

Sotiris Kotitsas

 AI Scientist/Engineer
Implementation of Natural Language Processing (NLP) modules

Stefania Amodeo

Community Engagement Officer
Engagement and training for Graph users and linked projects

Thanasis Vergoulis

OpenAIRE Development and Operation Director
Technical roadmap management and supervision, ensuring quality of services

Past Members

Acknowledging their impactful contributions.

Andreas Czerniak

Data Curator
Metadata harvesting, harmonisation, and quality control

Enrico Ottonello

Data curator
Metadata harvesting, harmonisation, and quality control