Dr. Ornela De Giacomo is Deputy Executive Director of CERIC-ERIC since 2015.  As such, she oversees the operations of the consortium and supports the Executive Director and other consortium bodies in the definition and implementation of the consortium strategy. She has 18+ years of experience in large analytical Research Infrastructures in roles dealing with open access, quality and project management. In her professional career she also worked in technology transfer for a private company. Her background is in Food Engineering (2000) and she completed her PhD in Nanotechnology in 2008. She was trained in Strategic Management of Research Infrastructures and Project management for engineers in Virginia, US, in 2018. She has focused in the last 5 years in the sustainability of Research Infrastructures. She is currently the Chair of the PaNOSC Executive Board (2022) and a member of the Task Force Financial Sustainability of EOSC. She is also a member of the EPOS SP External Advisory Body (since 2020) and the Conseil Scientifique d'E-RIHS France (since 2019).

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