Executive Direction
This team provides overall leadership, strategic vision, and policy direction for D4Science. They are responsible for setting the long-term goals of the infrastructure, ensuring alignment with broader organisational objectives, representing D4Science to external stakeholders at the highest level, and overseeing talent acquisition and recruitment.
Dr. Pasquale Pagano
Executive Director
Leads and directs D4Science, ensuring its effective operation and alignment with its mission and vision. Responsible for strategic decision-making and representing D4Science to external stakeholders. Overseeing the performance of all divisions, and managing talent acquisition and recruitment processes.
Dr. Leonardo Candela
Scientific Director
Leads the research activities of D4Science and manages strategic planning, policy definition, and portfolio management. Responsible for identifying new research opportunities. Developing strategic research partnerships, and ensuring that D4Science research activities are aligned with its long-term strategic goals.
Elisa Molinaro
Financial and Controlling Director
Responsible for the financial health and sustainability of the infrastructure. This includes managing the budget, financial planning, resource allocation, financial reporting, and ensuring financial compliance with relevant regulations and policies.
Management and Operations Division
Responsible for the overall operational management and strategic execution of the infrastructure's activities. It encompasses a range of crucial functions, from technical oversight and information systems management to stakeholder engagement and service catalogue management. This includes ensuring the efficient and effective delivery of services to users, managing day-to-day operations, and overseeing testing, release, and operational activities related to the services offered by the infrastructure.
Dr. Massimiliano Assante
Head of Division
Provides overall leadership and strategic direction ensuring the effective operational management and strategic execution of D4Science's infrastructure activities. This includes overseeing all aspects of service delivery, day-to-day operations, research, development, testing, and release activities related to the services offered by the infrastructure, ensuring alignment with D4Science mission and vision. He is responsible for the performance of the division and for ensuring the efficient and effective delivery of services to users.
Dr. Gianpaolo Coro
Stakeholder Engagement and Dissemination Manager
Responsible for the building and maintenance of relationships with external stakeholders, including research communities, funding agencies, and other relevant organizations. This also includes disseminating information about D4Science activities, services, and research products to promote its use and impact through various communication channels.
Giancarlo Panichi
Release Manager
Responsible for the management of the release of new features and for updating the infrastructure. This includes coordinating release planning, testing, and deployment, ensuring minimal service disruption.
Infrastructure and Security Division
Responsible for managing the infrastructure's hardware and connectivity, automating service configuration, and ensuring security. This includes planning, procuring, and maintaining the infrastructure's computing hardware, network connectivity, and related resources, ensuring its availability, capacity, and performance to meet the needs of D4Science's services and users.
Andrea Dell'Amico
Head of Division
Responsible for the infrastructure’s hardware, connectivity, and security, focusing on planning, procuring, and maintaining computing resources and networks. It ensures availability, capacity, and performance to meet the needs of D4Science services and users.
Tommaso Piccioli
Information Security Manager
Responsible for ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the infrastructure and its data. This includes implementing security policies and procedures, monitoring security threats, and managing incident response.
Dr. Marco Procaccini
Cloud Infrastructure Manager
Manages cloud engineering and Cloud infrastructure aspects. This includes deploying and managing components and ensuring the stability and performance of the cloud environment.
Dr. Antonio Calanducci
Service Integration Manager
Manages the integration and configuration of third-party applications and services within the D4Science infrastructure. This includes ensuring seamless interoperability between different systems and managing service dependencies.
Service and Product Management Division
Responsible for the design, development, integration, and management of D4Science's services and products, including its cloud infrastructure, data management solutions, and other related offerings. This encompasses overseeing the information systems that underpin the D4Science infrastructure, including managing the technology infrastructure, ensuring data security and integrity, overseeing IT operations, and developing and implementing IT strategies to support D4Science's goals.
Dr. Luca Frosini
Head of Division
Responsible for the design, development, integration, and management of D4Science's services and products, with a focus on the enabling technology and information systems that power the infrastructure. He drives innovation in data management solutions and related offerings, ensuring their functionality, usability, and alignment with infrastructure objectives, and oversees the underlying technology architecture and its evolution.
Francesco Mangiacrapa
GIS and Catalogue Manager
Responsible for the documentation, organization, and publication of the services and research products offered by D4Science. This includes maintaining a comprehensive catalog of available resources, ensuring accurate and up-to-date information is available to users, and managing the lifecycle of services and products.
Alfredo Oliviero
AI and Analytics Manager
Responsible for designing and implementing D4Science's AI component of the cloud infrastructure and for managing the social networking aspects of the platform. This includes defining the cloud architecture, selecting appropriate technologies, and managing D4Science's online presence and community engagement.
Dr. Biagio Peccerillo
Data Storage Manager
Manages cloud engineering and data storage aspects. This includes configuring and maintaining cloud infrastructure, implementing data storage solutions, and ensuring data backup and recovery.
Gian Luca Vannini
GIS Data Analyst
Oversees the publication and management of GIS Data. This includes ensuring data quality, metadata completeness, and the availability of GIS data to users.
Marco Lettere
Cloud Computing Platform Manager
Manages the Cloud Computing Platform. This includes overseeing the platform's architecture, development, and maintenance, ensuring its scalability and reliability.
Mauro Mugnaini
Identity and Access Management Manager
Manages the Identity and Access Management platform. This includes implementing and maintaining authentication and authorisation systems and ensuring secure access to D4Science resources.