Community and Events

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 IPv6 deployment among LIRs. In 2011, she joined the Science Division as Manager of the Measurements Community Building team; in 2015 she moved to Communications Department as Senior Community Builder, with a focus on organising hackathons. Vesna gives presentations at many technical conferences and workshops, and enjoys visiting hackerspaces. Vesna received a Batchelor of Sciences Degree in Computer Science and Informatics from the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade. She has three children.

Nathalie Trenaman

Based in Amsterdam

I'm the Routing Security Programme Manager at RIPE NCC. In my spare time I am the chair of NLNOG.

Amanda Gowland

Based in Amsterdam

Amanda is a Sr. Communications Officer and Change Officer for the RIPE NCC. Much of her work focuses on increasing diversity and inclusion in the RIPE NCC and the RIPE community as well as leading efforts on change communications.

Emile Aben

Based in Amsterdam, NL

I'm a system architect/research coordinator at the RIPE NCC, where I work in the science group. I'm a chemist by training, but have been working since 1998 on Internet related things, as a sysadmin, security consultant, web developer and researcher. I am interested in technology changes (like IPv6 deployment), Internet measurement, data analysis, data visualisation, sustainability and security. I'd like to bring research and operations closer together, ie. do research that is operationally relevant. When I'm not working I like to make music (electric guitar, bass and drums), do sports (swimming, (inline) skating, bouldering, soccer), and try to be a good parent.

Sandra Brás

Based in Amsterdam

Sandra has worked as a Trainer at the RIPE NCC since March 2008. In this role, Sandra delivers face-to-face training courses and Webinars on topics such as IPv6 and Routing Registry throughout Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. Recently, Sandra became responsible for the RIPE NCC E-Learning. Sandra holds a Master's degree in Training and Technology for Education from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and a Master's degree in E-Learning Pedagogy from the Open University, Portugal. Before joining the RIPE NCC Sandra participated in an Internship Programme for Graduates at the European Commission in the area of European competitions and Human Resources. Between 2004 and 2007, she was employed by the Portuguese Navy Ministry as a trainer and worked with several organisations as a freelancer in education and training.

Santiago Ruano Rincón

Based in Brest, France

I am research engineer at IRISA/Adopnet Lab located at the IMT Atlantique engineering school in Brest, France. I have focused my recent research on commodity-hardware tools to analyse Nx10Gbps network traffic.

Farzad Ebrahimi

Based in Tehran,Iran

Dr. Farzad Ebrahimi is CEO & Founder of BITA - IoT Holding Company and Chairman & Founder of IoT Academy of IRAN. He is a Faculty Member and Researcher in IRAN ICT Research Institute. He is also deputy of IoT & Big Data Commission in Tehran ICT Guild Organization and Chairman of Technology Working Group in IoT & Big Data Commission. He has 17 years of experience in the Field of ICT. His work in Research, Teaching and Business activities has been focused on the Internet of Things (IoT) from more than three years ago. He is International lecturer in the field of IoT and he has done various industrial projects in the field of Internet of Things.

Juan Brenes

Juan Brenes is early stage researcher in the areas of internet routing, software defined networks (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV). For the last three years he has been a member of the METRICS ITN, which allowed him start a Phd in telematics at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid under the supervision of Marcelo Bagnulo which he continues up until now. Recently he also joined Atos where he is participating of the 5G-transformer project. Juan also has a Telematics Engineering (Bsc) degree by the Universidad de Montevideo and a Master in Telematics (Msc) degree by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and has also performed as a software programmer and network administrator for several years.

Sofía Silva Berenguer

Based in Montevideo

Travel Addict, Martial Artist, Vegetarian, Amateur Singer, MSc in Telematics Engineering, Data Scientist at APNIC.

Sara Solmone

Based in London

Sara is a PhD researcher in International Law at the University of East London (UEL) and a recipient of the UEL Excellence PhD studentship. Her research interests are international law, Internet governance, State jurisdiction and human rights in the cyberspace. Her current research focuses on the extraterritorial exercise of State jurisdiction online and on whether this complies with the freedom of expression norms enshrined in the human rights conventions.