Technology and Innovation

Suzanne Taylor

Suzanne Taylor is a Public Policy & Internet Governance Consultant. In her work with the RIPE NCC, she has engaged with a broad range of Internet stakeholders including the RIPE NCC membership, governments, law enforcement and intergovernmental organisations. From 2012 to 2016, she worked in communications at the RIPE NCC … More

Maarten Aertsen

Based in Amsterdam

Maarten work as senior internet technologist at NLnet Labs. NLnet Labs is a not-for-profit foundation with the mission to develop open source software and open standards for the benefit of the Internet, particularly in the area of DNS and (BGP) routing. Maarten's role is to bring Labs' expertise to policy … More

Karla White

I am a Communications Officer at the RIPE NCC with a background in public sector communications and public relations. I started working at the RIPE NCC in 2021. More

Thijs van den Hout

Based in Utrecht, The Netherlands

Thijs van den Hout is a research engineer at SIDN Labs, the R&D department of the .nl ccTLD registry. He has a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence. His focus is the application of machine learning techniques to increase the safety of the internet, for example through abuse detection. More

Qasim Lone

I am a research engineer in the R&D department at RIPE NCC. I am interested in internet measurements, internet outages, data analysis, and cybersecurity. Prior to joining RIPE NCC, I defended my Ph.D. in cyber-security at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), The Netherlands. More

Max Schulze

Based in Haarlem, Netherlands

I have a background as a software engineer and cloud expert, using my experience from working on the IT infrastructure within startups and corporates to transform the digital economy, making it future-proof and sustainable. My focus is on the success of the SDIA Roadmap and activating our community to work … More

Simone Basso

Based in Italy

Simone leads the development of network experiments and the measurement engine at the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI). More

Luuk Hendriks

Luuk is a research engineer at NLnet Labs, focusing on measurements and analyses of core Internet protocols. More

Vesna Manojlovic

Vesna Manojlovic is Community Builder at RIPE NCC. Vesna joined the RIPE NCC as a Trainer in 1999. In 2003, she took responsibility for developing and delivering advanced courses, such as RPSL, Routing Registry, DNSSEC and IPv6. In 2008, she lead efforts to establish IPv6 RIPEness as a measure of … More

Koen van Hove

Koen van Hove is a researcher at the University of Twente on the topic of network security, with a focus on DoS-risks. His most notable contributions are to the DDoS Clearing House and RPKI Relying Party Resiliency Platform. More