Dr Michel Jarraud - Chair of the EEWRC SEP
Secretary General Emeritus, World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

Loucas Christophorou (Greece; Energy) is a Member of the Academy of Athens where he holds the Chair of Physical Science-Experimental Physics. Formerly, he was Senior Corporate Fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Senior Research Scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and Ford Foundation Professor of Physics at The University of Tennessee, USA.  He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a  recipient of many distinguished awards.

Philippe Davy (France; Hydrogeology) is Director of Research at French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a faculty member at the Department of Geosciences at the University of Rennes.

John Georgiadis (USA; Desalination) is Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the R. A. Pritzker Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He was previously the Richard W. Kritzer Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Joanna D Haigh (UK; Climate and Environment) is Professor of Atmospheric Physics at Imperial College London, and co-director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment. Prof Haigh is also a Fellow of the Royal Society, a former head of the Department of Physics at Imperial College London, and a former president - now a vice-president - of the Royal Meteorological Society.

Zev Levin (Israel; Climate & Atmospheric Sciences) is the Goldenberg Chair Emeritus Professor in Atmospheric Physics at the Department of Geophysics and Planetary Science, Tel Aviv University. He is the President of the International Commission of Clouds and Precipitation, and the Israeli Academy of Sciences representative to the IUGG and to IAMAS.

Robert Pitz–Paal (Germany; Solar Energy) is the Co-Director of the Institute of Solar Research of the German Aerospace Center in Cologne, and professor of solar technology at RWTH Aachen. He is an internationally recognized expert on CSP technology and serves on various German and international committees, on editorial boards of several scientific journals, frequently consulted on energy policy issues.

Professor Alan Mark Pollard’s research over the past 35 years has encompassed the application of the physical sciences, particularly chemistry, within archaeology, and has included a wide range of topics. He is a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a Member of the Oriental Ceramic Society.

Dr. Anastasia Drandaki is the Curator of the Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Collection at the Benaki Museum, Athens. She has organized exhibitions on diverse aspects of Byzantine art and culture including jewelry, ceramics, and icons. She has published articles on late antique and medieval metalwork, on icons, and on the collections and history of Saint Catherine’s Monastery at Sinai.

Professor Mary Lewis is the Head of Archaeological Science and the Programme Director of MSc Professional Human Osteoarchaeology at the University of Reading. Her research interests are the Child Paleopathology, Child growth and development, Osteology of the life course, Adolescence and Puberty and Medieval and Roman Child Health.

Roberto Scopigno
Research Director at CNR-ISTI

Roberto Scopigno is Research Director at CNR-ISTI, an institute of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) located in Pisa, Italy. He served as the former leader of the Visual Computing Lab, a research lab that he contributed to found in mid-1990.
Roberto won a permanent researcher position at CNR-CNUCE in 1986, became Senior Researcher in 1997 and finally Research Director in 2001 at CNR-ISTI. On April 1st, 2019, he was nominated Director of CNR-ISTI for a four-year term.
Since 1990 he had joint appointments at the Department of Computer Engineering and at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa, where he taught Computer Graphics courses. He was Visiting Researcher at the Univ. of Vigo (Spain) and at the Univ. of California at Santa Cruz (USA); he has been invited for short stages, seminars and PhD courses by several other international universities.

Marina Solomidou-Ieronymidou graduated from Sorbonne University (Paris IV) in 1980 and obtained her D.E.U.G. (1979), Licence (1980) and Maîtrise (1981) in Archaeology and Art History, while in 1984 she received her postgraduate title D.E.A. in Archaeology. In 2001 she received her PhD with honors in Medieval Archaeology from Sorbonne University (Paris I). She is a member of the Department of Antiquities since 1986. She was promoted to an a Curator of Antiquities (Ancient Monuments Sector) in 2006, where she was responsible for the coordination of works in relation to the conservation, restoration, protection and promotion of all Ancient Monuments in Cyprus. In 2014 she was appointed Director of the Department of Antiquities.

Professor Dr. Jørgen Wadum
Director of Conservation at Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK), Denmark

Professor Dr. Jørgen Wadum is Director of Conservation at Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK), the national gallery of Denmark, and Director of the Centre for Art Technological Studies and Conservation (CATS), a research consortium between SMK, The National Museum of Denmark (NMD), and the School of Conservation (KADK), Copenhagen.

Professor Srinivas Aluru
Regents' Professor, School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Srinivas Aluru is a Regents' professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering and serves as the Executive Director of the Georgia Tech Interdisciplinary Research Institute (IRI) in Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS). He co-leads the NSF South Big Data Regional Innovation Hub which nurtures big data partnerships between organizations in the 16 Southern States and Washington D.C., and the NSF Transdisciplinary Research Institute for Advancing Data Science. Aluru conducts research in high performance computing, data science, bioinformatics and systems biology, combinatorial scientific computing, and applied algorithms. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

David Keyes is Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computational Science and the Director of the Extreme Computing Research Center, having served as the Dean of the Division of Mathematical and Computer Sciences and Engineering at KAUST for its first 3.5 years. Professor Keyes works at the algorithmic interface between parallel computing and the numerical analysis of partial differential equations, with a focus on implicit scalable solvers for emerging architectures and their use in the many large-scale applications in energy and environment. He has named and contributed to Newton-Krylov-Schwarz (NKS), Additive Schwarz Preconditioned Inexact Newton (ASPIN), and Algebraic Fast Multipole (AFM) methods for large sparse linear and nonlinear systems arising from PDEs. Through the ECRC, he now works on meeting the requirements of drastic reductions in communication and synchronization, increases in concurrency for cores sharing memory locally, local load redistribution, and algorithm-based fault tolerance for these and other algorithms.

Ioannis Emiris is the Director of the ATHENA research center in Greece, and a Professor of Informatics & Telecommunications at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has been a Tenured Researcher at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis from 1995 to 2002, and is an external collaborator since then (Geometric Modeling group). For the past three years he served as member of the scientific board of Hellenic Foundation of Research and Innovation, representing Informatics and Mathematics. His interests span Scientific Computing, Computational Geometry, Robotics, Bioinformatics, and Machine Learning, with emphasis on polynomial system solving, high-dimensional geometric computing, computer-aided design, robot and molecular kinematics, similarity search, and deep geometric learning. He has founded and leads the Lab of Geometric and Algebraic Algorithms, which has enjoyed funding through several European, bilateral, national, and industrial projects; he has coordinated a number of them, including three H2020 MSCA networks, of which an ITN on Learning, Processing and Optimizing shapes (GRAPES) is currently on-going.

Lydia E. Kavraki is the Noah Harding Chair and professor of Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Bioengineering. She is the director of the Ken Kennedy Institute at Rice University. Professor Kavrakis works broadly in robotics, computational biomedicine, and physical AI. Her research has been funded by NSF, NIH, ARO, DOD, NASA, industry, and the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). Through her role at the Ken Kennedy Institute, she brings faculty together across seven schools and twenty-seven departments to shape large research projects and future directions in AI, data, and computing at Rice University. Kavrakis is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), Academia Europaea, and the Academy of Athens.

Professor Matej Praprotnik, Head of the Laboratory for Molecular Modeling at the National Institute of Chemistry

Matej Praprotnik is Head of the Laboratory for Molecular Modeling at the National Institute of Chemistry and professor of Physics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana. He has held visiting scientist positions at the Computational Science & Engineering Laboratory (ETH Zurich), the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications (University of Minnesota), the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (University of California, Santa Barbara), and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics China (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing). Matej is former Chair of the PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) Scientific Steering Committee. He served as President of the Slovenian Biophysical Society from 2015 to 2019. His research is focused on computer simulation of soft and biological matter. The focus is on developing and combining innovative computational and theoretical methods augmented by machine learning techniques to study complex molecular systems.