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
Lead Indicators, Senior 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

Myrto Kallipoliti
Data Scientist
Data mining, affiliation matching algorithm, and quality control.

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