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Rogier Spoor

Rogier Spoor, manager at SURFnet and innovator pur sang. During his student days in 1997, co-founder of the traveling DNA lab that was subsequently adopted nationally. At SURFnet, in 2004 Rogier developed SURFids, a distributed detection system that was an international success. In addition, Rogier has been at the cradle … More

Phil Roberts

Based in Chicago

I am one of the founders and the managing director of Diamond Key Security, a not-for-profit set whose educational, charitable, and scientific purposes include facilitating initiatives to enhance the security and stability of the Internet. More

Vasileios Giotsas

Vasileios Giotsas is a researcher at Lancaster University. His work focuses on systems security and resilience, distributed systems, and measurement and analysis of Internet protocols. More

Jan Zorz

Based in Skofja Loka, Slovenia

VP of 6connect Labs; Global NOG Alliance (GNA) co-founder and board member; SINOG chairman; SEE10 PC chairman; RIPE PC vice-chair; IPv6 consultant and long time promotor More

Vasileios Kotronis

Based in Athens, Greece

Vasileios Kotronis is the CTO and co-founder of Code BGP, a startup offering a real-time BGP security and observability platform. As a former Postdoctoral researcher, he has contributed to the ARTEMIS OSS (funded partly by RIPE Community Projects Fund) involving the real-time detection and mitigation of BGP hijacks. He holds … 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

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

Mirjam Kühne

Based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

I wrote the articles collected here during my time as community builder of the RIPE NCC and the maintainer and editor of RIPE Labs. I have since taken on a new role serving as the Chair of the RIPE Community. You can reach my new profile via the website link … More

Robert Kisteleki

For many years I have been the leader of the Research and Development team at the RIPE NCC leading a dedicated team of thinkers to support the RIPE community by providing network research, data analysis and prototype tool development and services including RIPE Atlas and RIPEstat. As of 2023, I'm … More

Amanda Gowland

Based in Amsterdam

Amanda was Sr. Communications Officer and Change Officer for the RIPE NCC until 2020. More