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Petros Gigis

Based in London, United Kingdom

Petros Gigis holds a PhD in Computer Science from University College London and is the author of openPenny. His research interests include computer networks, Internet routing, and Internet measurement.

Raffaele Sommese

Raffaele is an assistant professor at the University of Twente. His research focuses on Internet resilience and stability. During his PhD, Raffaele focused on DNS resilience, which involved analysing and characterising DDoS attacks against DNS, investigating DNS misconfigurations and vulnerabilities, and quantifying existing as well as devising new countermeasures to mitigate attacks against DNS infrastructures. As part of his current reaseach interests, Raffaele is investigating strategies to enhance transparency in the DNS ecosystem to prevent abuse and malicious behaviours.

Romain Bosc

Based in Brussels

Romain Bosc is a Senior Public Policy and Governance Officer at the RIPE NCC. Based in Brussels, he engages with a broad range of stakeholders including the RIPE NCC membership, EU institutions and bodies, national authorities, civil society organisations and academia. Romain joined the RIPE NCC in September 2023. Before this, he held various positions in European public affairs and policy research. His background is in political science and international relations, and he speaks French and English.

Ilke Ilhan

Business Data Analyst at RIPE NCC

Suzanne Taylor

Suzanne Taylor is a Public Policy & Internet Governance Consultant. In her work with the RIPE NCC, she 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 and has previously worked as a journalist and in media relations and science communications.

Anna Maria Mandalari

Based in London

Anna Maria Mandalari is is Lecturer in the Dept. Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College London, where she is the Director of the SafeNetIoT laboratory and she also serves as the Director of the MSc Programme in Internet Engineering and Telecommunications. She is Honorary Research Fellow at Imperial College London and visiting Professor at the Yokohama National University. She has been elected Secretary of ETSI TC CYBER EUSR to help coordinate standardization efforts on cybersecurity and emerging technologies. She is Chair of the Internet of Things Working Group at RIPE. She is Executive Steering Board Member of the IoT Security Foundation. She is CTO at Mulini SRL. She has been nominated Member of the Italian Technical Secretariat of the Committee for strategies on the use of AI. She obtained her PhD within the framework of the METRICS project, which is part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie action, intended for excellent researchers, affiliated with the Carlos III University of Madrid. Her research interests are Internet of Things (IoT), privacy, security, networking and Internet measurement techniques. She studies privacy implications and information exposure from IoT devices. In addition to her research, Anna gives invited talks all around the world to promote research and create awareness on security and privacy standards. Most of her research experiences have also significantly contributed to several EU-funded research projects and have had a significant influence on media and policymaking. Anna Maria Mandalari is also committed to promoting the interest of young women in STEM subjects. She is an active member of organizations that encourage diversity and aims to promote connections between women in the computer science and networking field.

Shyam Krishna Khadka

Based in Enschede, Netherlands

Shyam Krishna Khadka is a PhD student at the University of Twente, with interests in internet routing security and internet measurements. He has over a decade of working experience in software development and network technologies across various companies.

Stavros Konstantaras

Based in Amsterdam

Stavros Konstantaras is an enthusiastic all-around network engineer, holding an MSc from University of Amsterdam in the field of System & Network Engineering. His experience at NLnet Labs and the University of Amsterdam has supplied him with valuable skills and knowledge like scripting, system virtualization and network programming. He has been working with AMS-IX as a network engineer under the NOC team since 2017, which is responsible for the deployment and management of all AMS-IX instances around the world. His interests reside in the fields of network automation, routing security and protocol implementation. Stavros is an active member of the open communities of RIPE, EURO-IX, NLNOG and GRNOG and a thesis supervisor of various MSc/BSc projects at UvA.

Marcel Koch

Based in Dresden, Germany

Marcel is a first-year CS student at TU Dresden. He is a Rust and Nix enthusiast and contributes to these open-source communities, additionally he co-founded DD-IX and presented the IXP-from-Scratch RIPE Lab Article Series at RIPE89.

Kurt Kayser

Based in Franconia, Germany

Regular RIPE meeting attendee (since RIPE19); RIPE WG-Chair (Mbone-WG late 1990s); RIPE Arbiter (2001-2020) - ruled on 3 cases; RIPE Academy IPv6+Database exam co-author (2020); RIPE NomCom member (2025). RFC-Consultant: Inventor/Patent-Holder (EU+US); European-Rail-IT_Security Expert (IEC-TC9-PT63452). Previous hands-on ASN-List: AS49234 (BSI/Bund.de); AS62313 (Teamix/Proact); AS21083 (N-IX (Exchange Point Nürnberg)); AS20686 (Bisping und Bisping); AS60955 (Wavecon); AS12337 (noris network); AS12638 (VIAG Interkom/Eplus); AS1273 (ECRC/C&W).