Technology and Innovation

Philipp Richter

Based in Cambridge, MA, USA

I am a post doc researcher in the Advanced Network Architecture group at MIT and a research collaborator with Akamai Technologies. My current research centers around developing data-driven approaches to measure Internet reliability, resilience, and security. Prior to joining MIT, I earned my PhD (proof picture) from TU Berlin, advised … More

Gergana Petrova

Gergana Petrova is the Community Development Manager at RIPE NCC. She helps lead the RIPE NCC's engagement with a broad range of stakeholders, including the RIPE NCC membership, the RIPE community, government, academia, civil society and other Internet stakeholders. Gergana has been working for the RIPE NCC since 2013. Originally … More

Martine Sophie Lenders

Based in Berlin

I am a PhD student in Computer Science and a research assistant at Freie Universität Berlin, advised by Professor Matthias Wählisch. My primary research interest is in networking and programming for the IoT. I'm one of the maintainers in RIOT and responsible for the design and implementation of the RIOT … More

Benoit Donnet

Based in Université de Liège

Prof. Dr. Benoit Donnet is Associate Professor in the EECS department of the University of Liège. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in 2006. He has published about 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. His research interests are in Internet … More

Torsten Zimmermann

Based in Aachen, Germany

I am a PhD student at the chair of Communication and Distributed Systems at RWTH Aachen University. As part of the Network Achitectures group, my research focuses on the assessment, adoption and optimization of Internet protocols, such as HTTP/2 or DNS. 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

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