Technology and Innovation

Qasim Lone

I am a research engineer in the R&D department at RIPE NCC. I am interested in internet measurements, internet outages, data analysis, and cybersecurity. Prior to joining RIPE NCC, I defended my Ph.D. in cyber-security at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), The Netherlands.

Petros Gigis

Based in London

Petros Gigis is a PhD student in Computer Science at the University College London.

Pavlos Sermpezis

Pavlos Sermpezis is a researcher at Datalab (datalab.csd.auth.gr), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. His research is mainly on data science, Internet routing and measurements.

Sankalp Basavaraj

Based in Oberkochen, Germany

Sankalp Basavaraj is a Senior Architect who has helped 300+ companies worldwide in efficiently enabling their internet presence. His expertise spans across multiple tech arenas such as web performance, analytics, enterprise/cyber security and network engineering. He is serving member of advisory Panel in INTERNET STANDARDS, SECURITY AND SAFETY COALITION (IS3C). In his earlier part of his career he worked as a network engineer with AT&T and helped in designing & testing of LTE, 5G architectures. When he is not busy solving the problems of Internet, you can find him dabbling with the stock markets.

Corinne Cath

Dr. Corinne Cath is the Vice President of Research at the Open Technology Fund (OTF), an independent organization dedicated to supporting Internet Freedom. She is an anthropologist of technology development and holds a PhD from the University of Oxford.

Nadia Tjahja

Based in Belgium

Nadia Tjahja is a PhD Fellow at the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), working on the project “The contribution of global and regional multistakeholder mechanisms in improving global governance (GREMLIN)”, specifically her work looks at the legitimacy of multistakeholderism in Internet Governance.

Ivo Dijkhuis

Based in Amsterdam

I work as Senior Information Security Officer for the RIPE NCC. Before that, I worked for several Internet related companies in various technical and security related roles. I'm interested in all aspects of information security and privacy, which includes a wide range of topic from information security frameworks (ISO 27001, CSC-20), cloud security, incident response, intrusion detection, OSINT, digital forensics to GDPR. My guilty pleasure? Doing hands-on 'hacking' and digital forensic challenges.

Suzanne Taylor

Suzanne Taylor is a Public Policy & Internet Governance Consultant. In her work with the RIPE NCC, she engages with a broad range of Internet stakeholders including the RIPE NCC membership, governments, law enforcement and intergovernmental organisations. From 2012 to 2016, she worked in communications at the RIPE NCC and has previously worked as a journalist and in media relations and science communications.

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 from Bulgaria, Gergana studied in Germany before relocating to the Netherlands. Gergana has a Masters in Business Research.

Felipe Victolla Silveira

I am the Chief Operations Officer of the RIPE NCC, responsible for the registry, member-related services and software development, including the RIPE Database, LIR Portal, and RPKI. I have joined the RIPE NCC in 2012 as a Software Engineer, and since then have worked in different roles across the organisation. I have a MSc in Computer Science.