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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 … 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

Ulka Athale

Based in Amsterdam

Senior Marketing and Communications Officer at the RIPE NCC. I started working at the RIPE NCC in 2018, having previously worked in digital marketing, communications, magazine publishing and teaching. More

Ignacio Castro

I am a researcher interested in understanding/revealing/improving (in that order) how does the Internet work More

Danilo Giordano

Based in Turin

His research interests are focused on data analysis in small data and big data environments exploiting statistical and machine learning techniques. In particular, his interests are related to network measurements, and experiments meant to analyse network data and possibly highlight anomalies. In addition to the networking measurements, he is currently … More

LOUIS PETINIAUD

Based in France

Louis Pétiniaud is a post-doctoral researcher in the geopolitics of Internet infrastructures and routing at GEODE, and teaches geopolitics of cyberspace in the Bachelor of Science program at Ecole Polytechnique. He holds a PhD from the French Institute of Geopolitics (Paris 8 University). His dissertation explored the links between the … 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

Willem Toorop

Willem Toorop is a developer and researcher at NLnet Labs. NLnet Labs is a non-profit research lab dedicated to the development of Open Source software and open standards for the benefit of the Internet. NLnet Labs mission is to provide globally recognized innovations and expertise for those technologies that turn … More

Amanda Gowland

Based in Amsterdam

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

Carolina Are

Based in London

I'm a PhD researcher and visiting lecturer focusing on flaming, cyber-harassment and conspiracy theories. I am also a freelance journalist, a blogger and I have six years of experience in PR and social media strategy. More