Meet Our Team | D4Science

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.

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.