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Ștefan VOINEA

Represented by: Cluj Cultural Centre

Biography

Ștefan Voinea is an IT & communication expert presently serving as vice president of the Romanian Health Observatory, where he designs and implements advocacy campaigns for a better health system. While working for the Romanian Ministry of Health in 2016, Stefan developed two nation-wide software solutions: a digital patient feedback system and a medicine inventory tracking platform. Stefan has 10+ years of experience in developing social projects in the fields of healthcare, environment, and education. Stefan is a 2019 Marshall Memorial Fellow and winner of the 2016 Romanian Google Editors Lab hackathon with the theme “New Ways to Cover Public Health Care”. Stefan is currently developing projects at the crossroads of technology, education, and psychology: an artificial intelligence-enabled virtual assistant for children with cancer; a helping network for families of children with serious conditions; and an early warning system software for school dropout prevention.

Ryszard W. KLUSZCZYŃSKI

Ryszard W. KLUSZCZYŃSKI Represented by: Laznia Centre for Contemporary ArtBiography Ryszard W. Kluszczyński, PhD, media art scholar, writer and curator. Professor of media and cultural studies, Chair of Department of New Media and Digital Culture, University of Lodz, Poland. Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz. He investigates the issues of new media arts and cyberculture, contemporary art theory and practices, avant-gardes and transdisciplinary cultural transformations, and recent interactions between art, science, technology and politics. Artistic Director of Art & Science Meeting Program in the Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdansk (2011-). Curator of numerous exhibitions within the Program. Co-curator of travelling international exhibition United States of Europe (2011-2013). Curator of the Second International Biennale of Contemporary Art “Mediations”, Poznan 2010. Chief Curator of Film, Video and Multimedia Arts in the Centre for Contemporary Art – Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw (1990-2001). Member of International Association of Art Critics (AICA), Cultural Studies Committee of Polish Academy of Science, and Polish Society of Cultural Studies. Editor of “Art Inquiry”, a yearbook on contemporary art, and “Cultural Studies Review”.

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Alexander DAMIANISCH

Alexander DAMIANISCH Represented by: Ars ElectronicaBiography Alexander Damianisch leads the department for Support Art and Research at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, organising research activities with focus on artistic research projects, as well as engaging in strategic, conceptual and administrative tasks.Previously he taught German literature at the University of Durham (UK) and the Lomonossov University Moscow (Russia). He has worked at the New Synagoge Berlin and the Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart, where he was responsible for the programme art, science & business. This was followed by his work at the Austrian Science fund, where he developed and led the PEEK Programme for Arts-based Research until 2011.

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Raoul FRESE

Raoul FRESE Represented by: Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamBiographyRaoul Frese, born Amsterdam 1969, studied physics at the University of Amsterdam and received his PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2002, specialising in biophysics of photosynthesis. He continued his research at Twente University (NL), Leiden University (NL) and Rutgers University New Brunswick (USA).He is a recipient of two investigator grants from the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO, Veni and Vidi vernieuwingsimpuls grants) and multiple other grants form various funding agencies to establish his research in biohybrid solar cells at Vrije Universiteit where he and his team investigate the possibilities to interconnect photosynthetic materials to (semi-)conducting substrates for biosensors and solar energy harvesting. He is educational program director of the science for energy and sustainability master program, a joint degree of the University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit for which he developed and teaches several courses. At Vrije Universiteit, Frese established a laboratory, Hybrid Forms, for artscience collaborations and methodology development where artists, designers and scientists join forces for research and development for sustainable technology and materials as well as reflections on science and society. Aided by funding and prizes from national and international organizations (Bio-art and design award, STARTS, applied and engineering sciences, Creative Europe) artists can set up their studio's at the physics department and conduct research with scientists and students. Raoul Frese participates in the Scientists in Residency program of GLUON (Brussels, Belgium) where he is a resident scientist of Manthia Diawara, a filmmaker and Director of the Institute of Afro-American Affairs at NYU.

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Yannis IOANNIDIS

Yannis IOANNIDIS Represented by: Onassis Cultural CentreBiography Yannis Ioannidis (PhD, Computer Science, UC Berkeley, 1986 – MSc, Applied Mathematics, Harvard University, 1983 – Diploma, Electrical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 1982) is the President and General Director of the “Athena” Research and Innovation Center as well as a Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His research interests include Database and Information Systems, Data Science, Data and Text Analytics, Scalable Data Processing, Data Infrastructures and Digital Repositories, and Recommender Systems and Personalization, topics on which he has published over 160 articles in leading journals and conferences and also holds three patents. His work is often inspired by and applied to data management and analysis problems that arise in industrial environments or in the context of other scientific fields (Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Biodiversity, Cultural Heritage). He has been a coordinator or partner in tens of European and national research and innovation projects, including some motivated by cultural applications, such as Wholodance, EMOTIVE, CHESS, and eCultValue, and others motivated by environmental applications, such as DESIRA, CAPSELLA, MERMAID, and iMarine. He has also led or is currently leading the creation of new international or spin-off companies. He is an ACM and IEEE Fellow, a member of Academia Europaea, and a recipient of the ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award and several other research and teaching awards. He is currently serving as the Secretary / Treasurer of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and is a member of the ACM Europe Council. He is a vice chair of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI), the Greek delegate to ESFRI and a member of its Executive Board, and the ESFRI representative to the e-Infrastructures Reflection Group (e-IRG). Finally, he is on the strategic management board of the Greek hub of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.