Technology and Innovation

Max Schulze

Based in Haarlem, Netherlands

I have a background as a software engineer and cloud expert, using my experience from working on the IT infrastructure within startups and corporates to transform the digital economy, making it future-proof and sustainable. My focus is on the success of the SDIA Roadmap and activating our community to work towards a sustainable digital economy. I firmly believe in sustainability as a positive opportunity to make the world better and hope to contribute to it with my work.

Simone Basso

Based in Italy

Simone leads the development of network experiments and the measurement engine at the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI).

Luuk Hendriks

Luuk is a research engineer at NLnet Labs, focusing on measurements and analyses of core Internet protocols.

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.

Koen van Hove

Koen van Hove is a researcher at the University of Twente on the topic of network security, with a focus on DoS-risks. His most notable contributions are to the DDoS Clearing House and RPKI Relying Party Resiliency Platform.

Haya Shulman

Dr. Haya Shulman is Professor for computer science at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, department director at the Fraunhofer-Institute for Secure Information Technology SIT and a head of the research area Analytics-based Cybersecurity in the national research centre ATHENE.

Leslie Daigle

Based in Vermont, US

Leslie Daigle has been working at the intersection of technology, business/economics and policy to drive effective change for more than twenty years. Always fascinated by the Internet’s technology, innovation and real world impact, she started her professional career working with Internet applications technologies for corporate commercial activities, and expanded to take on leadership roles within the premier Internet technology standardization organization, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Leslie is currently the Global Technical Officer at the Global Cyber Alliance (GCA), furthering GCA’s development and deployment of global solutions that contribute to eradicating cyber risk. Leslie is the Principal at ThinkingCat Enterprises. She has attracted funding for projects focusing on advancing the Internet’s technology development and deployment through leadership and targeted activities coordinating action of interested Internet stakeholders. Leslie was previously the Internet Society’s first Chief Internet Technology Officer.

Giovane Moura

Based in Arnhem, The Netherlands

Giovane is a Data Scientist with SIDN Labs (.nl registry) and Guest Researcher at TU Delft, in the Netherlands. He works on security and Internet measurements research projects. Prior to SIDN, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Delft University of Technology, in The Netherlands. He obtained his Ph.D. degree with Prof. Aiko Pras at the University of Twente, also in the Netherlands, with focus on both active and passive Internet measurements. His research interests include Internet Measurements, Management, Security and Machine Learning applications. You can reach him at http://giovane-moura.nl/

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.

Alun Davies

Based in Amsterdam

Hailing from a research background in philosophy, linguistics and computer science, I came to the RIPE NCC back in 2016 and took on the role of RIPE Labs Editor in 2020.