Team

The Cos4Cloud team is made up of experts from various fields and organizations, all of them are key to the success of the project. Get to know them!

Coordination

Jaume Piera

Coordinator

Tenured Scientist at Marine Science Institute (ICM) CSIC and associate researcher at CREAF.

Karen Soacha

Codesign coordinator, Leader of WP5 (Services in practice) and Project Manager.

Governance & Transfer of knowledge at ICM-CSIC.

Sonia Liñán

Leader of WP8 (Communications) and WP9 (Ethics), Citizen engagement coordinator

Communication and citizen engagement at ICM-CSIC.

Johan Liljeblad

Cos4Cloud coordinator at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

PhD in Systematic Zoology Taxonomist and entomologist managing the Swedish Species Observation System.

Johan Nilsson

Artportalen (Swedish Species Observat ion System) maintenance and development of artificial intelligence systems to enhance the user experience, educate the users, and gather higher quality observations.

Creator of the Swedish Species Observation System (Artportalen) at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU).

Alexis Joly

Leader of WP3 (Data collection, processing and quality control Services) & leader of service “Pl@ntNet as a service”

Researcher, leader of Pl@ntNet & LifeCLEF at INRIA.

Jean-Christophe Lombardo

Leader of the service ‘Similarity-search based identification’ & ‘Location-based species prediction’

Research engineer and senior
developer at INRIA.

Fabian Robert

Leader of service “Cross-platform aggregation of labelled training data”

Researcher, leader of Pl@ntNet &LifeCLEF at INRIA.

Alba Sandoval

Legal and administrative support of CanAirIO

Legal representative of Trebola Ecological Organization, administrative, financial and pedagogical coordinator.

Daniel Bernal

CanAirIO project manager

Project manager at Trebola Ecological Organization & CanAirIO.

Antonio Vanegas

Mobile Architect of CanAir.io

Mobile Architect of CanAir.io, specialist in android hardware integrations in MatrixLabs & founder HackBo (Hackerspace of Bogotá)

Juan Carlos Pachón

Support the communication and engagement

Comunications and community Engagement at CanAirIO & Openstreetmap Colombia founder.

Michael Dodd

iSpot curator

iSpot Curator at The Open University.

Advaith Siddharthan

iSpot academic lead

Reader at The Open University.

Janice Ansine

Leader of WP6 (Networking, Training and Capacity Building )

Senior project manager in citizen science projects at The Open University, member of the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) and UK Tree Health Citizen Science Network (THCSN) founding member.

Lara Lloret

Integration of services within the EOSC via the deep-hybrid-datacloud marketplace. Links with EOSC projects and related initiatives

Researcher on data science and artificial intelligence at IFCA-CSIC.

Fernando Aguilar

Project management tools & support Integration of services within the EOSC via the deep-hybrid-datacloud marketplace. Links with EOSC projects and related initiatives

Postdoctoral researcher in data science and cloud computing at IFCA-CSIC.

David Rodríguez

Integration of services within the EOSC. Links with EOSC projects and related initiatives. Internal coordination.

Researcher in data science at IFCA.

Joan Masó

Leader of WP2 (EOSC compliant service architecture leader)

Senior researcher at CREAF and at GRUMETS Research Group.

Ester Prat

EOSC compliant service architecture assistant

Project Assistant at CREAF and at GRUMETS Research Group.

Núria Julià

EOSC compliant service architecture developer

Developer at CREAF and GRUMETS Research Group.

Alba Brobia

Development of tools for interoperability
demonstrations and reuse of citizen observatory services

Technician at CREAF and GRUMETS research group

Anna Ramón

Support in the communication plan strategy and brand management

Head of communication at CREAF.

Ángela Justamante

Co-leader of the communication plan strategy, branding definition, press officer and social media channels management

Communication technician at CREAF

Rosa Arias

Co-design leader & OdourCollect IP

CEO & Founder of
Science for Change
odour expert, active participant in the COST Action of Citizen Science.

Blanca Guasch

Co-design co-leader, applying Design Thinking methodologies to co-create the Cos4Cloud services with a variety of stakeholders

Co-design Strategic Officer at Science for Change.

Alex Amo

Co-design co-leader, applying Design Thinking methodologies to co-create the Cos4Cloud services with a variety of stakeholders

IT & Data Officer, Security & Privacy specialist and Project Manager at Science for Change.

Nora Salas Seoane

Co-design co-leader

Emotional Intelligence Officer & Social Researcher at Science for Change, active participant in the COST Action of Citizen Science

Santiago Martínez de la Riva Vivanco

Leader of WP4 (Interactive services)

CEO, CDO & Founder of Bineo Consulting.

Robin Giles Ribera

Development of WP4

CTO at Bineo Consulting.

Marisol Parrilla López

Project Coordinator of WP4

Project coordinator at
Bineo Consulting.

Henning Bredel

EOSC compliant service architecture and management of Agile software engineering.

Software engineer at 52°North GmbH.

Simon Jirka

EOSC compliant service architecture, interoperability development

Project manager at 52°North GmbH

Sasha Woods

Co-leader of WP7 (Dissemination & Exploitation)

Researcher for impact and innovation at Earthwatch.

Luigi Ceccaroni

Co-leader of WP7 (Dissemination & Explotaition)

Innovation lead at Earthwatch.

James Sprinks

Co-leader of WP7 (Dissemination and Exploitation)

Senior Researcher of citizen science at Earthwatch.

Katrin Nolland

Project Management of WP7 (Dissemination & Explotaition)

Project manager at Earthwatch.

Andreas Matheus

Authorization and GDPR Services for security in EOSC

Managing director at Secure Dimensions GmbH, member of the Open Geospatial Consortium – Chair of the Security Domain WG.

Claudia Fabó Cartas

Coordinating ECSA’s tasks within the project, and support Cos4Cloud’s communications

Project officer at the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA).

Norbert Schmidt

Developer of MOBIS for the COS4CLOUD project.

DDQ / Founder and owner.

Demelza Ramakers

Cos4Cloud developer, experienced citizen scientist

DDQ projects’ support

Maria Daskolia

Environmental and sustainability education expert, leader of the integration of citizen science in shcool

Associate Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), PI and project manager for the NKUA.

Chronis Kynigos

Educational technology expert

PI & Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)

Naya Grillia

Researcher, pedagogical intervention designer, training designer

Doctoral Researcher at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)

Dimitris Gkotzos

Researcher, pedagogical intervention designer, training designer

PhD in Educational Sciences at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA).

Matrona Pappa

Researcher, teacher, educational designer

PhD student at EEL/National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA).

Stefan Rueger

Developer of the services ‘automatic video stream processing service’ & ‘a platform for interactive pre-processing of large datasets’

Co-director of DynAikon, professor at The Open University’s Knowledge Media Institute.

Frederic Fol Leymarie

Developer of the services ‘automatic video stream processing service’ & ‘a platform for interactive pre-processing of large datasets’

Co-director and co-founder of DynAikon and London Geometry, professor at the University of London.

Kai Waddington

Developer of the services ‘automatic video stream processing service’ and ‘a platform for interactive pre-processing of large datasets’

Junior developer at DynAikon, Ph.D. student at The Open University.

Miklas Riechmann

Developer of the services ‘automatic video stream processing service’ and ‘a platform for interactive pre-processing of large datasets’

Junior developer at DynAikon.

Ryan Rueger

Developer of the services ‘automatic video stream processing service’ and ‘a platform for interactive pre-processing of large datasets’

Senior IT support at DynAikon.

Rachel Redford

Co-leader of WP6 (Networking, Training and Capacity Building)

Project manager at The Open University.

Joep van der Heiden

Development of the MOBIS service (back-end) as a general Geek and Citizen Science enthusiast (and passionate trail runner).

Co-Investigator at DDQ, project management and (technical) background research.

Ciara Davies

Student assistant at ECSA and Cos4Cloud

MSc Aquatic Conservation, Ecology and Restoration at UCL.

Mathias Chouet

Web developer and database engineer on WP3 “Pl@ntNet data as a service” and WP2 “SensorThings API+”

IT engineer at INRIA.

Anna Trigatzi

Researcher, teacher, educational designer

PhD student at EEL/ NKUA

Zacharenia (Menia) Daskalaki

Researcher, teacher, educational designer

PhD student at EEL/ NKUA

Ana Álvarez

Developer of MECODA

Researcher at ICM-CSIC

Maria Pliota

Researcher, educational designer, coordinator of communication, engagement and networking activities

MEd, MSc, member of the Environmental Education Lab-NKUA

Miguel Hernández

Co-design co-leader, applying Design Thinking methodologies to co-create the Cos4Cloud services with a variety of stakeholders

Circular Economy and Odour Specialist at Science for Change

Tim Woods

Tim coordinated ECSA’s tasks within the project, and support Cos4Cloud’s communications

Communications and outreach at the Anticipation Hub

Team

Coordination

Jaume Piera

Karen Soacha

Sonia Liñán

Team

Johan Liljeblad

Johan Nilsson

Alexis Joly

Jean-Christophe Lombardo

Fabian Robert

Alba Sandoval

Daniel Bernal

Antonio Vanegas

Juan Carlos Pachón

Michael Dodd

Advaith Siddharthan

Janice Ansine

Lara Lloret

Fernando Aguilar

David Rodríguez

Joan Masó

Ester Prat

Núria Julià

Alba Brobia

Anna Ramón

Ángela Justamante

Rosa Arias

Blanca Guasch

Alex Amo

Nora Salas Seoane

Santiago Martínez de la Riva Vivanco

Robin Giles Ribera

Marisol Parrilla López

Henning Bredel

Simon Jirka

Sasha Woods

Luigi Ceccaroni

James Sprinks

Katrin Nolland

Andreas Matheus

Claudia Fabó Cartas

Norbert Schmidt

Demelza Ramakers

Maria Daskolia

Chronis Kynigos

Naya Grillia

Dimitris Gkotzos

Matrona Pappa

Stefan Rueger

Frederic Fol Leymarie

Kai Waddington

Miklas Riechmann

Ryan Rueger

Rachel Redford

Joep van der Heiden

Ciara Davies

Mathias Chouet

Anna Trigatzi

Zacharenia (Menia) Daskalaki

Ana Álvarez

Maria Pliota

Miguel Hernández

Tim Woods

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