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Marco Zennaro
Marco is a Research Officer at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics. His research interest is in the use of WSN for Development. He holds a PhD from KTH-The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
Iain Darby
Iain is the Head of the Nuclear Science and Instrumentation Laboratory (NSIL) at IAEA Seibersdorf Laboratories in Vienna. He holds a PhD in Nuclear Physics from University of Liverpool.
Azby Brown
Azby is the founder and director of the Future Design Institute at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology, and lead researcher at Safecast.
Joe Moross
Joe is a Tokyo-based radiation and environmental sensor engineer, and was formerly senior engineer in charge of radiation safety for the linear accelerator facility of the National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials in Tsukuba.
Carlo Fonda
Carlo works for the ICTP-SDU. His interests include, among others, computer programming, rich-media and webcasting for science, use of mobile devices for education, and also 3D printing. He is co-founder of the ICTP SciFabLab.
Roman Padilla Alvarez
Roman is a Nuclear Instrumentation Specialist at the Nuclear Science and Instrumentation Laboratory, IAEA. He graduated as Physicist at the State University of Belarus and holds a PhD from University of Antwerp. His research interests are in nuclear spectrometry techniques and instrumentation., as applied to in comprehensive characterization of different materials.
Tea Tušar
Tea is a postdoctoral researcher at the Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her research interests include evolutionary algorithms for singleobjective and multiobjective optimization with emphasis on visualizing and benchmarking their results and applying them to real-world problems.
Steve Chan
Steve is Co-Director of the Center for Research on IOT, Data Science, and Resiliency, a joint initiative of the SENSEmaking Fellowship and ICTP. His research interests include sensor telemetry data for development and resiliency.
Nico Pitrelli
Nico is a science writer, science communication trainer, and science events organiser. Nico is actually the codirector of the Masters course in Science Communication Franco Prattico at Sissa, International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste. Nico is also media consultant for the Abdus Salam International Centre of Theoretical Physics Ictp, Trieste and he contributes as a science writer to the Italian magazine Pagina99.
Milan Matoš
Milan is a Senior Laboratory Technician at the Electronics Group of the Nuclear Science and Instrumentation Laboratory (NSIL) at IAEA Seibersdorf Laboratories in Vienna. He holds a PhD in Nuclear Physics from University of Giessen.
Sebastian Büttrich
Sebastian is a Research Lab Manager at the IT University of Copenhagen, Network Developer and Trainer for the Network Startup Resource Center NSRC, works with data from sensor to backend, embedded/pervasive systems, wireless technology, open source / free software and solar energy to build networks, systems, skills and capacity.
Franck Albinet
Franck is a Geographical Information System and Data analyst who has been providing for the last decade support to emergency responses in various areas including Humanitarian and Nuclear Emergency.
Eric Medvet
Eric is an Assistant Professor at DIA, University of Trieste, where he is the head of the Machine Learning Lab. His research interests include Evolutionary Computation and Machine Learning applications.
Luka Mustafa
Luka is Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow and working full-time on KORUZA development as well as pursuing a PhD at University College London (UCL) in the EE ONG group. He actively pursuits the development of new and efficient systems by re-purposing mass-produced components and equipment and contributes to several open-hardware and electronics projects worldwide.
Peter McGrath
Peter is Coordinator of the InterAcademy Partnership based in Trieste. IAP is a network of more than 130 academies of science and medicine, a major aim of which is to provide credible and independent science advice to policymakers.
Claudio Tuniz
Claudio is the coordinator of the ICTP X-ray Laboratory for Cultural Heritage and Palaeoanthropology (also funded by the ‘E. Fermi Centre and Science Museum’,Rome) and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Archaeological Science in Australia.He is author and co-author of over 100 international journal publications and books, including Humans. An unauthorised Biography, Springer, 2016.
Giancarlo Sturloni
Giancarlo is a professional science communicator and science writer and he offers training and consultancy in the fields of techno-science, healthcare and the environment. Giancarlo is lecturer in Risk Communication at the University of Udine and at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA). He worked as a freelance journalist with several Italian newspapers and recently he was head of the communication at Greenpeace Italy.
Gill Tudor
Gill worked as a journalist for Reuters news agency for nearly two decades, reporting from around 30 countries. She spent five years as spokesperson and head of media for the IAEA, and has also led communication for two other international organizations.
Bob Marsh
Bob manages and implements ICT projects from design to completion with more than 35 years of technical expertise and leadership. One of the original members of the legendary Homebrew Computer Club, in 1975 he co-invented the Processor Technology Sol-20 Micro-computer, now on display in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC.
