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Carlos Vivar Ríos

ORD Engineer at ORDES, SDSC

Carlos joined the SDSC in 2023, where he is part of the Open Research Data and Engagement Unit (ORDES). As a multidisciplinary data engineer, he brings a diverse background in biology, cognitive sciences, and bioinformatics from the University of Malaga. He is dedicated to advancing reproducible research methods and actively supports the open science movement.

Edward Andò

Head of the EPFL Hub for Image Analysis, EPFL Center for Imaging

Edward Andò is principal scientist and head of the Image Analysis Hub at the EPFL Center for Imaging. He leads a team of engineers to support and develop quantitative imaging within EPFL. With quite a broad background in quantitative imaging, Dr. Andò has contributed to the design and creation of large-scale imaging facilities such as NeXT-Grenoble as well as the production of open-source image-analysis code used by many research groups throughout the world, stemming from his longterm interest in the mechanics of discrete objects (granular media).

Robin Franken

Knowledge & Data Engineer at ORDES, SDSC

Robin joined the SDSC in 2022. He received an MSc. in Management, Economics & Consumer Studies from the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands. After his studies, he developed himself into a consultant in the area of ontology & linked data modelling, working mostly in the domain of local and national infrastructure projects. He has a great interest in standardization efforts in the field of semantic web technology standards and is actively working at SDSC with clients and collaborators to stimulate their adoption.

Mallory Wittwer

Engineer at the EPFL Center for Imaging

Mallory has joined the EPFL Image Analysis Hub in April 2022. He holds a Master's degree in materials science from EPFL. He is passionate about developing image analysis software tools that can be leveraged to support the scientific community and foster interdisciplinary collaboration. He is particularly interested in creating interactive data visualizations, computer vision applications, 3D printing, aerospace, and the industry 4.0.

Laurène Donati

Executive Director, EPFL Center for Imaging

Dr. Laurène Donati is the co-founder and Executive Director of the EPFL Center for Imaging since 2021. Prior to this, she was the Lead Coordinator of the Imaging@EPFL initiative launched by the EPFL Presidency in 2019. She holds a Master in bio-engineering and a PhD in electrical engineering from EPFL (2016 and 2020, respectively). Her work focused on the development of new reconstruction methods for cryo-electron microscopy. She was a visiting researcher in the Heffner Biomedical Imaging Lab at Columbia University in New York City, USA, from mid-2014 to mid-2015. She received the 2014 WISH Community Career Investment Award from the EPFL Foundation for Women in Sciences and Humanity “for demonstrating academic and professional excellence”. She was an elected member of the Parliament of Valais (CH) from 2013 to 2017.

Oksana Riba Grognuz

Head of ORD Engagement & Services, SDSC

Oksana is a disruptive innovator bringing her positive energy to projects. Driven by her curiosity and can-do attitude, she excels in industrial and academic contexts. Oksana earned her PhD in Life Sciences and Bioinformatics from the University of Lausanne after two MSc in Bioinformatics and in Information Systems from the University of Geneva. For more than 10 years, she has been committed to actively promoting the value of data science and advocating the best practices for FAIR and reproducible research.

Michael Unser

Academic Director, EPFL Center for Imaging

Michael Unser is professor and director of EPFL’s Biomedical Imaging Group, Lausanne, Switzerland. He is also the co-founder and Academic Director of the EPFL Center for Imaging since 2021. His primary area of investigation is biomedical image processing. He is internationally recognized for his research contributions to sampling theory, wavelets, the use of splines for image processing, stochastic processes, and computational bioimaging. He received three Advanced Grants (2010 & 2015 & 2021) from the European Research Council (ERC) for research projects on signal processing, bioimaging and functional learning.

Olivier Verscheure

Executive Director, SDSC

Olivier Verscheure holds a PhD in computer science from the EPFL (1999). He was Lab Program Director and Senior Research Manager at IBM Research Ireland from 2010 to 2016, and prior to this Research Manager and Senior Member of the Research Staff at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (1999 – 2010). He took over the Executive Director position of the SDSC in 2016. He is also an expert in the Strategy Working Group on Data, Computing and Digital Research Infrastructures in the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) since 2019, member of the Executive Committee of Personalized Health and Related Technologies (PHRT), an ETH Domain Strategic Focus Area (since 2017) and co-academic Director, Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS), Data Science and Management, HEC Lausanne and EPFL (since 2018).

Gavin Lee

Data Science Engineer

Gavin is passionate about broadening the adoption of software engineering and data science best practices to the scientific community. As a Data Science Engineer, he works alongside the Renku developers and champions Renku as a platform for users. He holds an MSc in Computational Science and Engineering from EPFL and a BSc in Financial Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Sydney.

Olivia Mariani

Scientific Staff Member, EPFL Center for Imaging

Olivia is specialised in image analysis. She uses research softwares and codes on a daily basis and strongly believes in open science. At the Center for Imaging, her tasks include collaborative image analysis projects, which are mainly shared and tested through the Renku platform. Olivia holds a PhD from EPFL on the theme of Computational methods for microscopy images.