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Maynard Koch

Based in Dresden, Germany

I am a PhD student and research associate at the Chair of Distributed and Networked Systems at TU Dresden, supervised by Prof. Dr. Matthias Wählisch. Before joining TU Dresden, I graduated with a BSc and MSc in Computer Science from Freie Universität Berlin. My research focuses on Internet measurements to improve network security. I'm particularly interested in DNS and scalable IPv6 scanning.

Matthias Wählisch

Based in Dresden, Germany

Matthias is a full professor and holds the Chair of Distributed and Networked Systems at the Faculty of Computer Science at TU Dresden. He is also a Research Fellow of the Barkhausen Institut. His research and teaching focus is on efficient, reliable, and secure Internet communication. This includes the design and evaluation of networking protocols and architectures, as well as Internet measurements and analysis. His efforts are driven by the hope of improving Internet communication based on sound research. He is actively involved in the IETF since 2005 and co-founded some successful open source projects such as RIOT (https://riot-os.org/) and RTRlib (https://rtrlib.rpki.net/). Matthias is a member of the Advisory Board of BCIX, the Berlin Internet Exchange Point, and INSO, the Internet Namespace Security Observatory supported by the Internet Society (ISOC), and a co-founder of DD-IX, the Dresden Internet Exchange.

Eline Stehouwer

Based in The Netherlands

Eline Stehouwer is a master's student in Cyber Security at Radboud University. During her master's, she did a research internship at SIDN Labs.

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.

Tobias Striffler

Tobias is a researcher in the R&D team at DE-CIX. His work includes Internet infrastructure research, data analysis, and prototyping, with a focus on practical and exploratory research topics relevant to large-scale IXPs.

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.

Hans Petter Holen

Based in Amsterdam, Netherland

Hans Petter Holen is the Managing Director of the RIPE NCC. Before taking on this role in May 2020, he served as the RIPE Chair from 2014 and has been part of the RIPE community for over 30 years. He also serves as the chair of the Number Resource Organisation (NRO) Executive Council.

Athina Fragkouli

I am the Chief Legal Officer at the RIPE NCC, responsible for all legal aspects of the organisation.

Gabor de Wit

Based in Amsterdam

Gabor de Wit is the Chief Registry Officer at the RIPE NCC. He leads the RIPE NCC’s registry operations, ensuring the accuracy, security and integrity of Internet number resource management across the organisation’s service region. Gabor oversees critical registry processes, including IPv4, IPv6, and ASN allocations, and drives initiatives to continuously improve registry services and automation. He works closely with members, the RIPE community, and global Internet stakeholders to maintain a robust and trusted registry system facilitating a well‑organized, resilient Internet.

Anna Wilson

Anna studied computer science in University College Dublin, and has worked in the NREN sector since the late nineties. She works for HEAnet as Technical Architect, where she likes to say that her role involves paving smooth roads. She is currently service as vice chair of RIPE.