Governance

Executive Board

  1. Gianmaria Silvello, University of Padua, Italy (Chair, 2026- )
  2. Trond Aalberg, Norwegian University of Technology & Science, Norway (Secretary, 2023- )

Honorary Chairs

  1. Ingeborg Solvberg, Norwegian University of Technology & Science, Norway
  2. Constantino Thanos, ISTI, CNR, Italy

Steering Committee Members

  1. Trond Aalberg, Norwegian University of Technology & Science, Norway (Chair 2018-2022 / Secretary 2012-2015)
  2. Apostolos Antonacopoulos, University of Salford, United Kingdom
  3. Wolf-Tilo Balke, Technische Universität, Braunschweig, Germany
  4. Jose Borbinha, Lisbon University, Portugal
  5. Antoine Doucet, University of La Rochelle, France (Chair 2022-2025)
  6. Koraljka Golub, Linnæus University, Sweden
  7. Annika Hinze, University of Waikato, New Zealand
  8. Laszlo Kovacs, MTA SZTAKI, Hungary
  9. Adam Jatowt, University of Innsbruck, Austria
  10. Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  11. Christos Papatheodorou, Ionian University, Greece (Chair 2012-2015)
  12. Benjamin Piwowarski, CNRS / Sorbonne Université, France
  13. Andreas Rauber, Technical University of Wien, Austria
  14. Thomas Risse, L3S Research Center, Germany (Deputy Chair 2016-2018)
  15. Gianmaria Silvello, University of Padua, Italy (Deputy Chair 2023-2025)
  16. Kostas Stefanidis, Tampere University, Finland
  17. Nicholas Vanderschantz, University of Waikato, New Zealand
  18. Ines Vodopivec, Universitu of Ljubljana, Slovenia
  19. Zheying Zhang, Tampere University, Finland

Steering Committee Past Members

  1. Maristella Agosti, Past Chair (2009-2012), University of Padova, Italy
  2. Omar Alonso, Amazon Science, USA
  3. Gerd Berget, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
  4. Daniel Brenn, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
  5. Vittore Casarosa, ISTI-CNR, Italy
  6. Donatella Castelli, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy
  7. Stavros Christodoulakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
  8. Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
  9. Fabio Crestani, University of Lugano (USI), Switezerland
  10. Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard, State and University Library, Aarhus, Denmark
  11. Jérôme Darmont, University of Lyon, France
  12. Gabriel David, University of Porto, Portugal
  13. Fabien Duchateau, University of Lyon, France
  14. Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg, Germany
  15. Julio Gonzalo, UNED – Madrid, Spain
  16. Stefan Gradmann, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, Past Vice-Chair (2012-2015)
  17. Mark Hall, The Open University, UK
  18. Yannis Ioannidis, University of Athens, Greece
  19. Antoine Isaac, Europeana & VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
  20. Sarantos Kapidakis, Ionian University, Greece
  21. Sanna Kumpulainen, Tampere University, Finland
  22. Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow, UK
  23. Mounia Lalmas, Yahoo! Research, Spain
  24. Paolo Manghi, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy
  25. Carlo Meghini, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy
  26. Eva Méndez, University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
  27. Erich Neuhold, University of Vienna, Austria
  28. Cristina Ribeiro, University of Porto, Portugal
  29. Fabrizio Sebastiani, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy
  30. Giannis Tsakonas, University of Patras, Greece (Secretary 2015-2018)
  31. Felisa Verdejo, UNED – Madrid, Spain
  32. Marcin Werla, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland
  33. Panayiotis Zaphiris, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus