Project Management Board

The Project Management Board (PMB) is the supervisory body of the project. It is designed to promote continuous sharing of project knowledge across all areas of activity and according to the defined work plan. In this way, the PMB can make informed decisions affecting the project strategy, while proposing and rapidly implementing corrective measures concerning the work plan in the emergence of delays or deviations.

Project Director: Donatella Castelli
	Donatella Castelli is Senior Researcher at the "Information Science and Technologies of the Italian National Research Council" (ISTI-CNR). Since 1996, she has scientifically coordinated several European and Nationally funded projects on digital libraries and data infrastructure acquiring considerable experience in this domain. In particular, she has acted as technical director of the DRIVER and DRIVER-II projects and as scientific coordinator of the DILIGENT and D4Science ones. She is also leading the activity dedicated to the production of the DELOS Reference Model for Digital Libraries. Her current research interests include digital library architectures and infrastructures, information object modeling and interoperability.
Administrative and Financial Director: Jessica Michel
	Jessica Michel is a senior project manager at the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM EEIG). Jessica began working with the D4Science consortium in 2004, when she became coordinator of the DILIGENT project. She has coordinated several ICT projects under the European Commission's Sixth and Seventh Framework Programmes and is a skilled proposal writer and experienced negotiator. A graduate of Bowdoin College in the United States, Jessica earned a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from Solvay Business School of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium in 2001.
Technical Director: Pasquale Pagano
	Pasquale Pagano is Senior Researcher at the Networked Multimedia Information Systems Laboratory of the "Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie della Informazione A. Faedo" (ISTI) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). He received the M.Sc. in Information Systems Technologies from the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa (1998), and the Ph.D. degree in Information Engineering from the Department of Information Engineering: Electronics, Information Theory, Telecommunications of the same university (2006). The aim of his research is the study and experimentation of models, methodologies and techniques for the design and development of distributed virtual research environments (VREs) which require the handling of heterogeneous resources. He has a strong background on digital library distributed architectures. He participated to the design of the most relevant DL systems developed by CNR — ISTI. He is currently the Technical Director of the D4Science-II project and he has been involved in the D4Science, DRIVER II and BELIEF II projects.
Outreach Manager: Johannes Keizer
	Johannes Keizer holds an MSc in Biochemistry and a PhD in Biology. He has been involved in the development of information systems for more than 10 years. He has been working with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) since 1998 and is currently responsible for FAO’s Documentation Catalogue, an international network of documentation centres (AGRIS) and the multilingual agricultural thesaurus, AGROVOC. His Team consists of about 20 experts, working in documentation, ontology and thesaurus development and metadata standards. Initiatives such as the AgMES and the AOS have been launched by the Team under his leadership.
gCube Software Manager: George Kakaletris
	George Kakaletris is IT Staff of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of Athens and an IT consultant for the Greek Parliament for the application of innovative technologies in eGovernent. Graduate of Department of Physics of the University of Athens with an MSc degree on Information Systems Technologies from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the same organisation. Formerly mployed by Greek IT companies, initially as a S/W Engineer and later as a S/W Architect, IT Project Manager and an R&D Department Director, having designed and implemented several large scale desktop and distributed information systems. Research interests include, among others, Optimization through Computational Intelligence, Distributed Systems, Very Large Dataset Management, and Information Systems Architecture, with emphasis on Service and Component Oriented ones.
VRE Development Manager: Leonardo Candela
	Leonardo Candela is Researcher at the Networked Multimedia Information Systems (NMIS) Laboratory of the Institute of Information Science and Technologies - Italian National Research Council (ISTI - CNR). Dr. Candela graduated with a degree in Computer Science in 2001 at University of Pisa and completed a Ph.D. in Information Engineering in 2006 at the University of Pisa. He joined the NMIS Laboratory in 2001. Since then he has been involved in the CYCLADES, Open Archives Forum, DELOS, DILIGENT, DRIVER and D4Science projects. He was a member of the DELOS Reference Model Technical Committee and of the OAI-ORE Liaison Group. He is currently involved in the D4Science-II and DL.org projects. His research interests include Digital Library [Management] Systems and Architectures, Digital Libraries Models, Distributed Information Retrieval, and Grid Computing.
Infrastructure Manager: Pedro Andrade
	Pedro Andrade was graduated at the University of Porto where he obtained his MSc degree in Informatics and Computing Engineering in 2003. From 2003 to 2004 he worked in the same faculty for the GridPT research project developing grid and public computing systems for High Energy Physics. From 2004 he has been working at CERN IT department in projects related to grid and data e-Infrastructures. First in the FP6 DILIGENT project where he was involved in the cooperation with the EGEE project and in the release of the gCube software. Since 2008 he is acting as Infrastructure Manager in the FP7 D4Science and D4Science-II projects managing the production infrastructure service.
Communities Manager: Marc Taconet
	Marc Taconet holds a Master's degree in Fisheries sciences. He has been working with FAO since 1987 in various African countries starting with fishery bio-statistics, evolving progressively to data bases, GIS and spatial approaches to fisheries monitoring, at national, regional and finally global scale. Since 1999, M. Taconet has lead at FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department in Rome the development of the Fisheries Global Information System (FIGIS), which now provides the web based infrastructure to the Department's integrated information resources, and the backbone to global information partnerships for the monitoring of world fishery resources. M. Taconet leads a team of developers and information management and communication specialists of about 15 persons. He is the Fisheries and Aquaculture Resources Management (FARM) Communities Manager for the D4Science project.