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Laura Lorenzo

Based in Lisbon

Laura is working with the RIPE NCC to redesign and expand the RIPE Fellowship program, leveraging her experience as an internationally recognised, award-winning community builder. More

Melchior Aelmans

Based in The Netherlands

I'm interested in internet routing, routing security (RPKI), peering, 'the good of the internet', quantum internet and quantum-safe communications. Writing blogs, RFCs, etc. More

Flavio Luciani

Flavio Luciani was born in Rome in 1981 and graduated in Computer Engineering from the University of Roma Tre in 2005. Since 2008 he has been in the team of Namex, the Internet eXchange Point in Rome, first as a member of the technical staff and since 2020 as Chief … More

Leo Vegoda

Based in Los Angeles, CA, USA

Leo Vegoda is PeeringDB’s Product Manager. He was previously responsible for organizational planning and improvement in ICANN’s Office of the COO, and Internet Number Resources in the IANA department, as well as running Registration Services at the RIPE NCC. More

Sofía Silva Berenguer

Based in Brisbane

NRO RPKI Program Manager, Process and Productivity Engineer for the Registry Value Stream at APNIC, Ontological Coach and mum. Sofía holds an MSc in Telematics Engineering and is an Ontological Coach. She works as the RPKI Program Manager for the NRO and the Process and Productivity Engineer for the Registry … More

Adonis Stergiopoulos

Based in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Adonis is a Product Owner and part of the Software Engineering team at the RIPE NCC. He has worked in the RIPE NCC in various positions and has been involved with the core teams behind the technical tools and programmes such as RIPEstat, RPKI, RIPE Atlas and RIS. He is … More

Rene Wilhelm

Rene Wilhelm is a senior research engineer in the R&D department at the RIPE NCC. Coming from a background in particle physics, Rene joined the RIPE NCC in 1996. His interests are in data analysis, routing, Internet measurements and visualisation. More

Tobias Fiebig

I am a system administrator turned network & security researcher, looking at digital infrastructures & society, and operators. Currently working at the Max-Planck Institut for Informatics as a senior researcher; Usually speaking for myself and not my affiliation. More

Mirjam Kühne

I studied Computer Science at the TU Berlin, Germany, and have been a member of the RIPE community for over twenty years. Currently I am serving as the Chair of the RIPE Community. More

Kjerstin Burdiek

Kjerstin Burdiek is a Communications Officer at the RIPE NCC. She joined the RIPE NCC in 2021 with a background in linguistics. More