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1 UKRO Annual Conference 2015 Aston University, Birmingham 18-19 June 2015 Speakers Biographies Professor Giuliana Battisti Giuliana joined Warwick Business School in September 2012 from the University of Nottingham where she was a Professor and the research director of the Economics and Finance division at the Nottingham University Business School. Giuliana studied statistics and economics at the University of Bologna (BA), the London School of Economics (MSc) and Warwick University (PhD). She held teaching and research positions in the UK and abroad including Williams College (Massachusetts, USA) and Politecnico of Milano (Managerial Engineering). Giuliana is co-chair of the British Network of Industrial Economists, chair of the Business and Industrial Section of the Royal Statistical Society, fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management and member of ISAG of the Office for National Statistics and the Business Innovation and Skills department. She has also been doing consultancy and research for a number of governmental and private organisations such as the Department for Business Innovation and Skills, the Department for Education, NESTA, EUROSTAT, the JRC of the European Commission IPTS-TSD Unit, and the Research Institute on Financial Structures and Economic Development (ISFSE). Giuliana is the Assistant Dean (Doctoral Programme) and the Doctoral Programme Committee representative of the Strategy and International Business group.

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UKRO Annual Conference 2015

Aston University, Birmingham

18-19 June 2015

Speakers Biographies

Professor Giuliana Battisti

Giuliana joined Warwick Business School in September 2012 from the University of Nottingham where she was a Professor and the research director of the Economics and Finance division at the Nottingham University Business School.

Giuliana studied statistics and economics at the University of Bologna (BA), the London School of Economics (MSc) and Warwick University (PhD). She held teaching and research positions in the UK and abroad including Williams College (Massachusetts, USA) and Politecnico of Milano (Managerial Engineering).

Giuliana is co-chair of the British Network of Industrial Economists, chair of the Business and Industrial Section of the Royal Statistical Society, fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management and member of ISAG of the Office for National Statistics and the Business Innovation and Skills department.

She has also been doing consultancy and research for a number of governmental and private organisations such as the Department for Business Innovation and Skills, the Department for Education, NESTA, EUROSTAT, the JRC of the European Commission IPTS-TSD Unit, and the Research Institute on Financial Structures and Economic Development (ISFSE).

Giuliana is the Assistant Dean (Doctoral Programme) and the Doctoral Programme Committee representative of the Strategy and International Business group.

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Tobias Blanke

Tobias Blanke is the director of the MA in Digital Asset and Media Management.

His academic background is in philosophy and computer science, with a PhD from the Free

University of Berlin on the concept of evil in German philosophy and a PhD from the

University of Glasgow in Computing Science on the theoretical evaluation of XML retrieval

using Situation Theory. Tobias has authored numerous papers and three books in a range of

fields on the intersection of humanities research and computer science. His work has won

several prizes at major international conferences including best paper awards. In 2012,

he has been a Visiting Professor at the Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities.

Prior to joining King’s College London in 2007, Tobias worked at Credit Suisse in the city of

London as a lead analyst and developer in a data warehouse, at Free University Berlin and

several smaller media companies in Berlin. Since joining academia in 2007, Tobias has taken

leadership roles in multi-disciplinary research projects for King’s College London awarded by

the European Commission, EPSRC, JISC, the Germany Ministry of Research and Education

and the AHRC.

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Jean-Claude Burgelman

Jean-Claude is currently Head of Unit for Science Policy, Foresight and Data in DG RTD. He joined the European Commission in 1999 as a visiting scientist in the Joint Research Centre (the Institute of Prospective Technological Studies - IPTS), where he became Head of the Information Society Unit in 2005. In January 2008, he moved to the Bureau of European Policy Advisers (attached to the president of the EC) as adviser for innovation policy. In October 2008, he joined DG RTD as advisor and later Head of Unit in charge of top level advisory boards like the European Research and Innovation Area Board, the Innovation for Growth Group and the European Forum for Forward Looking Activities.

Until 2000, he was a professor of communication technology policy at the Free University of Brussels, as well as director of the Centre for Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunication and was involved in science and technology assessment. He has been visiting professor at the University of Antwerp, the College of Europe in Bruges and the University of South Africa, and sits on several academic journals. He chaired the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Innovation and was a member of its Science Advisory Committee.

Maria Chli

Maria Chli received the MEng and PhD degrees in Computing from Imperial College London in 2001 and 2005, respectively. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Aston University in Birmingham. Her research interests include multiagent systems and modelling of complex systems using agent-based methodologies, to help in understanding the dynamics, analysing the emergent properties, and ultimately to aid in decision-making and policy formation. Her more recent work focuses on applying machine learning techniques to complex single and multiagent optimization and coordination problems.

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Since 2001, Maria has been involved in two European Framework Programmes 5 and 6 projects (EEII: Evolution and ecology of interacting infohabitants, DBE: Digital Business Ecosystem). She has led a project funded by the UK government Department of Business, Innovation and Skills to study the effects of government policy and retailers strategies in the UK retail market for fair-trade products.

Amanda Crowfoot

Amanda Crowfoot is Director of Science Europe - an association of 50 major European

research funding and research performing organisations, including all seven UK Research

Councils. Science Europe was founded in 2011, with the aim of promoting the collective

interests of its Member Organisations and facilitating collaboration between them in order

to contribute to the design and development of a strong and effective European research

system. Priority areas for collaboration, as well as Science Europe’s vision for research in

Europe, are set out in the ‘Science Europe Roadmap’, published in 2013. As Director Amanda

leads the Office and is responsible for business planning and liaison with both Member

Organisations and external stakeholders.

From 2005 to 2012 Amanda was Director of UKRO. Before becoming Director, Amanda spent

four years as a European Advisor within UKRO, primarily working with subscribing

institutions in the North West, Midlands and Yorkshire and Humber regions of the UK.

She also led on the Office’s work on legal and financial aspects of the EU Framework

Programme, including looking at the implications of full economic costing (fEC) on FP

participation.

Prior to joining UKRO, Amanda was Projects Manager at the Centre for Research and Policy

in Disability at Coventry University. This role involved establishing and managing EU projects

related to disability, particularly in the context of vocational training and life-long learning.

Amanda has a first degree in English Studies and a Master’s degree in Linguistics. She has

taught English language and linguistics at the Universities of Manchester, Birmingham and

Coventry, as well as teaching study skills to international students. During and after her

studies she held several Research Assistant posts at the University of Manchester.

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Matthew Dovey

Matthew Dovey currently works at Jisc, the UK's expert organisation in the use of digital technologies for education and research, where he oversees the requirements for digital infrastructure services needed to support and enhance aspects of the research lifecycle - from discovery of information and data, to data analysis and manipulation, as well as collaboration and research impact and dissemination.

Previously, Matthew was Technical Manager at the Oxford University e-Science Centre, where he advised scientific research projects based on WebService and GridService architectures. Prior to this, he worked for the Oxford University Library Services, implementing numerous library and digital library technologies, including music information retrieval and projects on preservation of digital material.

Matthew is Chair of the Executive Board of the EGI.eu (a European Research e-Infrastructure) and a member of the UK Cabinet Office Open Standards Board.

Keir Fitch

Keir Fitch is the Head of Unit of the research and innovative transport systems unit in the

Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport. He is the former Deputy Head of Cabinet of

Siim Kallas, Vice-President and Commissioner for Transport where he is responsible for land

transport, security and state aids, inter alia. He was also the coordinator of the White Paper

of the Future of Transport.

Keir studied mathematics and law at Cambridge, was a lawyer at Herbert Smith and then

moved on to the UK civil service in 1993. He joined the European Commission's Legal Service

in 1999. Before joining the cabinet of Mr. Kallas in 2004, he was a Member of Cabinet of

Vice-President Kinnock, responsible for administration.

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Peter Fletcher

Peter Fletcher is Head of the International Office for STFC, promoting links with partner countries on a global basis and managing interfaces with the European Union and other European bodies. He is a regular member of UK Government delegations for formal bilateral meetings on science cooperation, and the lead UK representative on the EU Horizon 2020 Research Infrastructures Programme Committee. He has represented the UK Research Councils on the OECD Global Science Forum and supports the STFC CEO, Professor John Womersley, as the UK delegate for the G7 Group of Senior Officials on Research Infrastructures. He is Chair of the Science Europe Working Group on Research Infrastructures.

Peter has a PhD in Applied Biology, and has been a Research Council programme manager for over 25 years, with experience of project selection in biology and astronomy, including acting as project officer for the launch of major research facilities, and on financial and strategic planning.

Katharine Fuller

Katharine is the West Midlands RIC Manager for Climate KIC. Within her role, she manages

the design, implementation and quality assurance relating to funded KIC activity in the

region in order to achieve optimal results for the West Midlands region. She also leverages

this delivery to source further opportunities that harmonise the objectives of Innovation

Birmingham Ltd, our regional stakeholders and Climate KIC. Katharine’s background is as an

EU funding specialist, programme manager, entrepreneur and bid developer of a variety of

strategic and innovative projects in topics such as smart cities, low carbon, education

development and socio-economic growth.

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Professor Nigel Gilbert

Nigel Gilbert is Director of the Centre for Research in Social Simulation (CRESS) and Professor

of Sociology at the University of Surrey. He has been involved in projects supported by the

European Commission (EC) since Framework Programme 3 and has been the coordinator of

a number of STREPs and IPs. His research interests are in the use of computational methods

in social science, especially agent-based modelling (ABM), and in a range of applications of

ABM, including understanding innovation, peer-to-peer communities, household energy

demand, and supply chains.

Nigel’s first degree was in Engineering and he is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of

Engineering as well as of the Academy of Social Sciences. He is a member of the EC’s Future

and Emerging Technologies Advisory Group, but will be presenting only a personal view in

his keynote.

Abstract:

The European Commission’s Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) research programme

was a small component of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) research

funding in Framework 6, grew somewhat in FP7, and has now been much expanded and is

no longer directly linked to the ICT part of Horizon 2020. The Commission strongly

encourages the involvement of several disciplines in most of the research that it supports in

Horizon 2020, and in the Future and Emerging Technologies interdisciplinarity is an essential

feature of successful proposals. In this talk, I shall review the current state of FET, discuss

some of the issues that arise in strongly interdisciplinary projects and speculate about the

future of FET and related Calls.

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Steve George

Steve is a Project Leader at the Birmingham City Council and an ITS expert. He has over 20 years of experience in the transportation industry and is the founder and Director of SG Transport Innovation Ltd established in July 2006, which brings a wealth of experience and a successful track record of ITS system deployment derived from the experience gained from over 20 years in the traffic industry, seven of which have been spent as a practitioner in local government at the forefront of ITS system delivery.

His competence in ITS system deployment and local authority transport planning is evidenced by a depth of experience that encompasses adaptive traffic control systems; RTPI and CCTV systems; Local Authority Major Scheme preparation and delivery (West Midlands UTC Major Scheme); European Project Proposals and Project Participation in the 5th, 6th and 7th Framework Programmes. Steve is also a member of the UTMC Development Group, former Chair of the POLIS Traffic Efficiency and Mobility Group, Chair of the ITS UK Local Authority Urban Interest Group, Chair of the ITS Arab ITS Architecture Working Group, a founder member of the Intelligent Mobility Future Vision (IMFV) Group and a member of the Chartered Institute of Highways and Transportation (CIHT).

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Paul Harris

Paul Harris is a Policy Officer in the unit of the European Commission dealing with Innovation

in Education, the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), and the Marie

Skłodowska-Curie actions (MSCA). This unit is part of the Directorate-General for Education

and Culture and is responsible for the strategy of the EIT and MSCA. The unit also supervises

the implementation of EIT and MSCA funding.

Paul is the policy lead on the Individual Fellowships of the MSCA, which enable experienced

researchers to move to, from, and within Europe. He is also the contact point for Australia,

Canada, New Zealand, and the United States on all of the MSCA.

Previously Paul worked for the European Research Council (ERC) Executive Agency, after

being a Brussels-based advisor for first Scottish and then Welsh Universities.

Peter Härtwich

Peter Härtwich graduated in physics at Technische Universität Dresden in Germany and did postgraduate studies in Dresden and St. Petersburg (Russia) before receiving a PhD in solid state physics in 1991. He pursued his career as a technology consultant in the technology centre of the Association of German Engineers (VDI).

In 1997, he joined the European Commission as a scientific officer in the Research Directorate-General. He occupied several positions related to research project management and to the coordination of the implementation of the EU research framework programmes.

Since 2008, he has been the head of sector dealing with the coordination of operations under the Seventh Framework Programme. In 2013, he became deputy head of unit for simplification and business processes for the EU research and innovation programmes.

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Anni Hellman

Anni has been Deputy Head of Unit for e-infrastructure since April 2014. She has been working for European institutions since 2002, mainly in various management functions and mostly as Head of Unit in the Commission but also as Head of Administration in the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control in (ECDC) in Sweden.

Prior to moving to Brussels, Anni worked as an actuary and Director of product development in Sampo Group Ltd in Finland. She is a qualified actuary, specialised in non-life and health insurance, with university degrees in mathematics and computing. Her actuarial qualification was granted by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health in Finland. She specialized in risk and pricing models in actuarial sciences.

She studied mathematics and computer sciences in the University of Turku, Finland, with theses on formal languages and artificial intelligence.

Angela Jeffery

Angela’s current role at Aston University is Business Development Manager with the School

of Life and Health Sciences focuses on developing and building relationships with industry to

establish working partnerships underpinned by funding to deliver impact.

Prior to joining Aston, Angela was Enterprise Manager at St George’s, University of London

where she secured several large funding awards and commercialised Intellectual Property.

She has also been Head of Pharmaceutical Conferences at an events management company,

delivered consultancy for a biotech company as well as being a scientist at the James Hutton

Institute and John Innes.

She has a D. Phil in molecular biology from Oxford University and an MSc in Intellectual

Property Management from Queen Mary, University of London.

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Jose Labastida

Jose Labastida has been the Head of the Scientific Management Department of the European Research Council since February 2011.

Before joining the European Research Council he was Secretary General for Science and Technology Policy and Director General for Research of the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain.

In his previous life, he was a researcher. Prior to that, he was Vice-president for Research of CSIC, the Spanish National Research Council and Professor of Theoretical Physics, occupying positions at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, CERN, and the University of Santiago de Compostela.

He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Stony Brook University.

Gary Logan

Gary is a senior policy advisor in the International Knowledge and Innovation unit in BIS, with

responsibility for EU Innovation policy and SME programmes in Horizon 2020. This role

includes ensuring that the development of European policy and initiatives on innovation

reflect UK priorities and that EU innovation programmes are developed, co-ordinated and

managed effectively.

Gary is the policy lead within BIS for the European Institute of Innovation and Technology

and led the UK input into the European Council negotiations for the EIT Regulation in 2008

and the amended EIT Regulation and Strategic Innovation Agenda in 2013. Gary is also the

National Representative on the Horizon 2020 SMEs and A2F Programme Committees.

Prior to his current position Gary worked in various roles within BIS including sponsorship of

the Communications and Content industries and the issuing of military and dual use Export

Licenses.

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Chris North

Apart from a couple of years working in the private sector after university, Chris has been

a career civil servant. He joined the former Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in 1985,

where his early postings included a stint in the Private Office of the Minister for Corporate

Affairs. In 1990-92 he was loaned to the Cabinet Office Science & Technology Secretariat

where he worked on Framework Programme 3 (FP3). Since then he has specialised in

different fields of European policy, including industrial competitiveness, Structural and

Cohesion Funds, as well as research and innovation.

His first secondment to the European Commission was to DG Competition in 1996-99 where

he worked on state aid issues. Between 1999 and 2003 he acted as Deputy Head of the

international directorate in the then Office of Science & Technology (OST), which covered

FP5 and FP6. He then switched to an industry sponsorship role, as deputy head of the DTI

aerospace, marine and defence unit (2003-06). He transferred to the former Department for

Innovation Universities and Skills (DIUS) in 2007 as head of EU innovation policy, where he

led for the UK on negotiations establishing the European Institute for Innovation and

Technology (EIT). He moved subsequently to the Department for Business Innovation &

Skills (BIS), where he was appointed lead official on policy development and cross-

Government coordination for negotiations on the €80 billion Horizon 2020 research and

innovation programme. He was also UK Deputy High Level Representative to the Eureka

network for applied R&D.

Since March 2014, he has been working as a seconded national expert in the innovation

policy unit of DG Research & Innovation. Chris studied French and German at the University

of Exeter.

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Alex Mauser

Alex is a Programmes Manager at the Enterprise Europe Network. He oversees Enterprise Europe Network operations in the East and West Midlands regions. Alex is based at Coventry University Enterprises Ltd and over the years his work has focused on providing internationalisation and innovation support services to SMEs across a number of sectors.

Together with his team he has run a programme of local and international activities to improve access to European research programmes; and to promote other forms of international collaboration aimed at product and process innovation in key industries including healthcare, energy, transport and ICT. In more recent times he has helped to develop new EEN services in the UK designed specifically to improve innovation management in small businesses.

He is a BA graduate of the University of Bath and in 2009 was awarded an MBA in Innovation Management and Knowledge Transfer from Coventry University.

Gianluca Tondi

Gianluca Tondi is a mechanical engineer specialised in energy matters with almost 20 years

of experience in renewable energy sources and energy efficiency. After about 10 years in the

private sector, in June 2005, he joined the Intelligent Energy Executive Agency (IEAA) of the

European Commission, currently known as the Executive Agency for SMEs (EASME).

In the energy Unit of EASME, he is responsible for the sector "Industry, Products and

consumers", managing research and market uptake sustainable energy projects funded

under the Community programmes Intelligent Energy for Europe (2007-2013) and Horizon

2020.

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Jane Watkins

Trained in research, Jane obtained her PhD and MSc from Leeds University. Her research expertise is in textiles and colour chemistry. She was awarded Coates Viyella prize from the Textile Institute for her research on fire retardants and has given presentations around the world on this topic. As well as her academic career, Jane has commercial experience working in new product development and was responsible for the research and development of fire retardants for construction, plastics and aircraft.

Jane has over ten years’ experience as UK National Contact Point and has developed broad knowledge of the Framework Programmes. Jane has also been involved in Framework projects and has delivered training sessions on the Framework Programme to other National Contact Points across Europe. Her knowledge and experience has also helped UK companies and academia from the initial concept of European funding to proposal pre-screening and submission.

David Wilson

David Wilson is a senior civil servant with over 20 years’ experience in central and local government. Since January 2014, he has been responsible for the UK’s engagement in EU and other European programmes in the research, innovation and education areas, such as Horizon 2020, Eureka and Erasmus+. In the latter part of 2013, he managed a DG-led project benchmarking the UK’s science and innovation performance. Before that he spent four years as Deputy Director for enterprise policy and strategy within Enterprise Directorate in the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills.

Prior to that, he was on a one-year secondment to PwC where he drove a major project on school funding and acted as a specialist adviser for a number of studies on senior remuneration in a variety of public sector organisations. He was previously responsible for teachers' and police pay at the Office of Manpower Economics, and his other policy experience includes European policy, regional policy, innovation, open government and energy.