DAVIDE BALZAROTTI Research Engineer - Institut Eurecom Davide Balzarotti is currently a Research Engineer at Institut Eurecom. His research interests include most aspects of system security and in particular the areas of intrusion detection and prevention, binary and malware analysis, reverse engineering, and web security. Before joining Eurecom, Davide spent two years in Santa Barbara as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Computer Science at UCSB. In 2007 he participated in the red team involved in testing the capability and security of the voting machines certified for use in the State of Ohio (Project Everest) and in the top-to-bottom review of the electronic voting machines certified for use in California. He received his PhD in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2006.
	SILKE CUNO SWEB Project Silke Cuno received her diploma in Communication Sciences from the Technical University of Berlin in 1990. She works at Fraunhofer FOKUS Institute since 1996. She is concerned with project co-ordination of research and development projects specially in the domain of eGovernment. She is involved in the management of several European and national projects at FOKUS, for example actually in the SWEB-project (IST-2006-044979) in the eGovernment Good Practice Framework and the Polish-German eGovernment Research Base. She took part in the conceptualization and organisation of the Fraunhofer eGovernment Centre. Her research interests include business processes, organisation sociology, security in distributed processing environments and service architectures.
	DR. KARIM DJEMAME Senior Lecturer - University of Leeds (UK) Dr Karim Djemame is a Senior Lecturer within the Web Sciences research group at the School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK. He was investigator of the Distributed Aircraft Maintenance Environment (DAME) e-science project (graded excellent by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) and its follow-on project BROADEN (Business Resource Optimisation for Aftermarket and Design on Engineering Networks) funded by the Department of Trade and Industry. He is also investigator of the EU-funded project Advanced Risk Assessment and Management for Trustable Grids (AssessGrid). He sits on a number of international programme committees for Grid middleware, computer networks and performance evaluation, and is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Systems Science. The main research area of Dr Djemame is Grid computing, including system architectures, resource management and performance evaluation.
	JEAN-LUC DUGELAY Professor - Eurecom, Multimedia Communications dept., Sophia Antipolis (France) Jean-Luc DUGELAY received a Ph.D.degree in Computer Science in 1992 from Rennes University. He is currently with EURECOM, Multimedia Communications dept., Sophia Antipolis, France, as a Professor. He teaches Image and Video Processing and Coding, and Imaging for Security Applications (Watermarking & Biometrics). From 1989 to 1992, he worked for France Telecom Research, Rennes (formerly CCETTT) on 3-D Motion Estimation & Stereoscopic Television. His research interests include security imaging (watermarking & biometrics), image/video coding, facial image analysis, face cloning and talking heads. He gave several tutorials on digital watermarking (co-authored with F. Petitcolas from Microsoft Research), biometrics (co-authored with J.-C. Junqua from Panasonic Research) at major conferences. Jean-Luc DUGELAY is a senior member of the IEEE. He is an elected member of the IEEE Signal Processing for IMDSP and MMSP Committees. He was an associate editor for the IEEE-IP and the IEEE-MM Transactions, the EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, and the Kluwer Journal on Multimedia Tools and Applications. He is currently the Editor in Chief of the EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing (Hindawi). He has been an invited speaker and/or member of the program committee of several scientific conferences and workshops. He was technical co-chair and organizer of the fourth workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (Cannes, October 2001), and co-organizer of the workshop on Multimodal User Authentication (Santa Barbara, December 2003 & Toulouse 2006). Jean-Luc is an author or coauthor of more then 80 publications that have appeared as journal papers or proceeding articles, 3 book chapters, and 3 international patents. He is co-author (with F. Perronin and Prof. K. Rose, UC Santa Barbara) of a paper that received the IEEE ICIP 2003 Best Student Paper Award.
	PAUL EL KHOURY Research Associate SAP Lab France, Security & Trust Research Program Paul El Khoury is enrolled in a PhD fellowship with SAP jointly with the University Claude Bernard of Lyon on the “Integration of security mechanisms in Ambient Intelligence environments using the patterns' approach”. He holds a research Master degree from the University of Claude Bernard Lyon 1 in knowledge and reasoning (2005-2006). During his master degree he contributed to the ServiceMosaic project where he mainly focused on verification of access control policies. Since November 2006, he is a Research Associate at SAP Labs France Security and Trust Research Program where he is actively contributing to the SERENITY EU project.
	DR. SIGRID GÜRGENS Fraunhofer SIT Dr. Sigrid Gürgens received her PhD in Mathematics at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt in 1992. Since 1988 she is working as a scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology. Her research focuses on formal methods, information security and cryptography. In particular she worked on tool-supported analysis and design of security protocols, development of formal security models, and methods for the specification and refinement of security properties.
	ARTUR HECKER Associate Professor - INFRES, department at the ENST Artur Hecker received a diploma in Computer Science (Dipl.inform.) from the University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany in 2001. In 2005, he received a PhD degree in Computer Science and Networking from the ENST, France. After his thesis, he worked as CTO of Wavestorm SAS, which he co-founded in 2003. Since 2006, Dr. Hecker holds a position as Associate Professor at the INFRES department at the ENST where he teaches internet-working, network management and security. His present research interests are wireless access security, security assurance of complex systems, network and service management and autonomous networking. Dr. Hecker is actively involved in several IST FP6 and EUREKA CELTIC research activities.
	ALEXANDER KIPP Researcher, High Performance Computing Centre (HLRS) - University of Stuttgart  Alexander Kipp holds a Diploma in Computer Science. Since 2006 he is employed at the High Performance Computing Centre (HLRS) at the University of Stuttgart, working at Grid-/VO-/Web Service-related research projects on both national and international level. He is the deputy head of the “Intelligent Service Infrastructures” department at HLRS, which focuses on realising next generation cross domain service infrastructures. He has been involved in various research projects over the last 2 years as Software Architect, Security Expert and Software Developer for various Web Service extensions. His (PhD) research interest lies in the area of adaptive service infrastructures, in particular in the area of service virtualization and the corresponding technologies.
	ANTONIO KUNG CTO - Trialog Antonio Kung has more than 25 years experience on embedded and real-time systems. After a stint in a software house where he led the development of real-time kernels, he co-founded Trialog in 1987 where he was in charge the development of advanced software products such as protocols and real-time kernels in the area of automotive and home applications.   He now serves as chief technology officer and heads the company product development (kernels, protocols) and collaborative projects with a focus on embedded systems, networking and security (e.g. SEVECOM, PRECIOSA).   Antonio Kung holds a Master's degree from Harvard University and an Engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Paris. He has given numerous seminars in the area of embedded systems and teaches computer science courses in several French universities.
	KRZYSZTOF KUROWSKI Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (Poland) Krzysztof Kurowski joined in research and development activities conducted at Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center in 1999 and is leading now PSNC Application Department.  He has taken an active interest especially in the following research fields: distributed systems, security, scheduling and resource management in grid environments. He has played an active role in some EU Projects within the 5/6th Framework Programme, e.g. Enacts, GridLab and HPC-Europa. Recently, he has been leading and managing technical activities performed in two EU projects: InteliGrid and QosCosGrid. Results of his research efforts have been successfully presented at many international conferences, including IFORS, CCGrid, HPDC, Supercomputing and OGF. He is a member of the following standardization bodies: Open Grid Forum, Liberty Alliance, OASIS and ETSI. He was a research visitor at a few well-known research institutions, such as: Argonne National Lab in Chicago/USA, University of Southern California in Los Angeles/USA, University of Queensland/Australia, EPCC University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh/Scotland, and University of Paris-Dauphine in Paris/France.
	ANTONIO LIOY Professor - Politecnico di Torino (Italy) Antonio Lioy holds a M.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering. Currently he is Full Professor at the Politecnico di Torino and leads the TORSEC research group active in information systems security. This group has taken part to several international security projects, the most recent ones being Positif, Deserec, Open-TC, and Stork. Prof. Lioy often acts as a consultant and reviewer for public and private bodies. His current research interests are in the fields of network security, PKI, and policy-based system protection. Since September 2007, Prof. Lioy is a member of the PSG (Permanent Stakeholders’ Group) of ENISA (the European Network and Information Security Agency of the EU).
	PROF. YORAM OFEK Professor - University of Trento (Italy) Professor Yoram Ofek is a full professor at the University of Trento, Italy and prior to this he was awarded the Marie Curie Chair in Trento (Italy) by the European Commission for a project called IP-FLOW [http://dit.unitn.it/ip-flow/]. He also coordinated and won a 2nd EU funded project RE-TRUST [http://re-trust.dit.unitn.it/]. Prof. Ofek received his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois-Urbana. He expanded his research while at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, and for his invention of the MetaRing and his contributions to the SSA storage products, he was received the IBM Outstanding Innovation Award. He has written 42 US patents and more than 110 journal and conference papers. Dr. Ofek has originated and invented six novel network architectures: (1) ring with a family of fairness algorithms, (2) optical hypergraph for combining multiple passive optical networks (PONs), (3) embedding of virtual rings in arbitrary topology networks, (4) global packet networks for real-time and multimedia, (5) optical fractional lambda switching, and (6) method for remote entrusting of software during execution that can be used for entrusting and protecting the Internet infrastructure, trust in distributed computing, and protecting (audio/video) content. Dr. Ofek is a fellow of the IEEE.
	NEELI PRASAD Head of Wireless Security & Sensor Networks Group - Aalborg University (Denmark) Neeli Rashmi Prasad, Associate Professor and Coordinator of Network Architecture Thematic Group, Center for TeleInfrastruktur (CTIF), and Head of Wireless Security and Sensor Networks Group, Aalborg University, Denmark. 10+ years experience in the wireless/mobile and wired networks, with 7+ years of in senior-level technical positions. She has worked for Vodafone NL, Wireless Communications and Networking Division of Lucent Technologies, T-Mobile Netherlands, Netherlands and PCOM:I3, Aalborg, Denmark. Her publications range from journals, international conferences and chapters in books. She has also co-edited and co-authored two books in the field of IEEE 802.11, published by Artech House, 2001 and 2005.
	PAUL SALET MINAmI Project Paul Salet graduated as an engineer from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris in 1990, with a specialisation in opto-electronics and microwave engineering. He received the Ph.D. degree in 1996 for his thesis on modelling and design of long-wavelength vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers. He was then in charge of research and development studies on various types of semiconductor lasers, successively in industrial (Alcatel, Photonetics) and academic (Institut d'Optique) institutions. He joined EPFL in July 2006 to work on carbon-nanotubes NEMS in the frame of the STREP NanoRF European programme, as well as on various physical aspects of future electronic devices.
	JOAO SEQUEIRA Professor - Instituto Superior Tecnico (Portugal) Joao Sequeira received the PhD in 1999, from Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal. From 1991 on he participated in the research teams of several national and international projects. Between 1996 and 1999 he also integrated the research team on mobile robotics at the Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy. His is currently Assistant Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, a senior researcher at Institute for Systems and Robotics, Lisbon, and the Portuguese coordinator for the URUS project. His research activities are focused on the modeling of robotic systems and development of alternative human-robot interaction techniques.
	NIKOLA ŠERBEDŽIJA Professor - Fraunhofer FIRST, Berlin (Germany) Nikola Šerbedžija is a senior scientist at Fraunhofer FIRST, Berlin and since year 2000 a professor at University of Arts, Berlin where he teaches Technical Literacy and Media Programming. His major research areas are: Ubiquitous Computing, Parallel and Distributed Systems, Sensor Networks, Middleware Architectures, Internet Programming and E-Learning. He is a project coordinator of the FP7 REFLECT project featuring adaptive control in pervasive applications.
	THOMAS SKORDAS Deputy Head of Security Unit - INFSO/MEDIA DG, European Commission Thomas Skordas received his diploma in Electrical Engineering in 1984 from University Aristotle (Thessaloniki, Greece), and the PhD in Computer Science in 1988, from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (France). He then worked at Cap Gemini Sogeti as project leader in EU-funded R&D projects in the areas of Information Technology and Robotics. In 1995, Thomas joined the European Commission as Scientific Officer in the Information Society Technologies Program, part of the Directorate General Information Society & Media (DG INFSO). From 2003 to 2005, Thomas was part of the Future and Emerging Technologies Unit of DG INFSO, where he was responsible for the strategic planning and thinking of the Unit and for the preparation of new basic research agendas in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Since 1st February 2006, Thomas has joined the DG INFSO Unit dealing with research in ICT Security and Trust, where he is Deputy Head of Unit.
	CHRISTIAN WEHRMANN Consultant - VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik (Germany) Christian Wehrmann works at VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH in Berlin since July 2005. He has a degree in political science from the Free University Berlin. He has a longstanding experience in IT, media and telecommunications market research and has worked as an information specialist for one of the biggest German public broadcasting stations and KPMG Consulting, where he was head of the company’s information and research office in Berlin. His professional expertise covers media and high tech market research and technology and e-business forecasts, European media and technology policy and legislation and public relations for high tech companies and the European Commission (Representation in Germany). At present he is a consultant of department Innovation Europe at VDI/VDE-IT and project-coordinator for the FP7-project “AALIANCE”, a coordination action in the field of ambient assisted living technologies.