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National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Great Conference Hall, Kiev

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Research cooperation between Joint Research Centre and Ukraine

Research and innovation strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3)

Anatoly Zagorodny

Vice President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Anatoly Zagorodny is Vice President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He was Chief Scientific Secretary of the National Academy between 2009 and 2011. He is also a Corresponding Member of the European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Humanities. He is currently Chairman Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics as well. He has about 200 papers in international scientific journals and books such as Statistical theory of plasma-molecular systems, Moscow University Publ., 1990; Introduction to plasma physics. Kiev, Naukova Dumka, 2014; Introduction to kinetic theory of plasmas, Kiev, Naukova Dumka, 2015.

Maksym Strikha

Deputy Minister, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine Maksym Strikha has been responsible for scientific development, innovation, international scientific cooperation since September 2014. He holds a Doctor degree of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and he is a scientist in the field of semiconductor physics and translation. He was a Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine between February 2008 and June 2010. His Research interests lay in the field of semiconductor physics such as the construction of consistent theory of optical and recombination transitions in real semiconductors. Author of over 170 scientific papers on physics (including 2 collective monographs, 7 reviews, 1 manual, patent), of over 100 articles on the figures and phenomena of Ukrainian interpretation and 2 monographs on translations, of the numerous scientific and popular articles.

Vladimir Šucha

Director-General, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre, European Commission Vladimir Šucha is Director-General of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, its in-house scientific service. He was Deputy Director-General of the JRC between 2012 and 2013. Prior to that, he spent 6 years in the position of Director for Culture and Media in the Directorate-General for Education and Culture of the European Commission. Before joining the European Commission, he held various positions in the area of European and international affairs. Between 2005 and 2006, he was Director of the Slovak Research and Development Agency, the national body responsible for funding research. He was principal advisor for European Affairs to the Minister of Education of the Slovak Republic (2004-2005). He worked at the Slovak Representation to the EU in Brussels as research, education and culture counselor (2000-2004). In parallel, he has followed a long-term academic and research career, being a full professor in Slovakia and visiting professor/scientist at different academic institutions in many countries. He published more than 100 scientific papers in peer reviewed journals.

Hugues Mingarelli

Ambassador, Head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine Hugues Mingarelli is EU Ambassador to Ukraine and Head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine. Previously he was Senior Adviser on Global Strategy and ENP Review Implementation for the period Sep 2015 - Aug 2016. He has been working for the EU Commission and the European Court of Auditors.

Ales Gnamus

S3 Platform, Unit for Territorial Development, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre, European Commission Ales Gnamus has been a scientific policy analyst at JRC Seville since February 2008. Since January 2012 he has been closely involved in the activities of the Smart Specialisation Platform. He has been working for the European Commission since 2004. He has long-standing analytical experience with European trans-regional and international S&T cooperation, renewable energy technologies, smart cities, eco-innovations and sustainability issues as a whole. His interests include policy analysis, benchmarking, qualitative and quantitative assessment of policies and on modern internet-based communication / dissemination information platforms. He holds a Ph.D. in natural sciences and previously had been working as researcher dealing with different research topics at universities and research institutes in various countries.

Dmytro Cheberkus

Head of the Department for Science and Technology Development, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine Dmytro Cherbakus is Director of the Department of Science and Technology of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. For the period April 2012 and October 2014 he was Deputy Director of Science and Technology of the State Agency of Science, Innovation and Informatisation of Ukraine. He holds a PhD in Economics. He is author of more than 15 scientific papers in leading journals in the field of economics and finance.

Lena Minitch

Director of the Innovations and Intellectual Property Department, Ministry of Economy of Ukraine Lena Minitch is Director of the Innovations and Intellectual Property Department in the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine. She has been working in telecommunications for more than 20 years. She was CEO of Freshtel Ukraine, a WIMAX wireless broadband Internet provider. In her position as chief marketing officer of Utel, a mobile business unit of Ukrtelecom, Minitch launched the first UMTS network in Ukraine in 2007. She worked as a strategy adviser for the CEO of mobile operator Azerfon in Azerbaijan and introduced a Vodafone-Azerfon brand for the Azeri market. Lena Minitch has a master’s degree in business telecommunication from Technical University Delft in the Netherlands, and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Kiev Polytechnics University in Ukraine.

Andrey Ragulya

NASU Andrey Ragulya is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Materials Science of Nanostructures”. He is also Chief of Innovation Development and Technology Commercialization Sector at IPMS and Vice-Director of the Institute for Problems of Materials Science and Head of Department of Nanostructured ceramics and Nanocomposites. In 1994-19996 he received the President Award for Young Scientists. He got a Gold Medal of National Academy of Sciences for Scientific Excellence in 2010 and the State Prize of Ukraine in 2015. He has more than 200 publications.

Guido Lemoine

Food Security Unit, Directorate Sustainable Resources, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre, European Commission Guido Lemoine is a Principal Scientist in the Food Security Unit of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC). He is an agricultural engineer by training (1987, Soil Science, Wageningen University, The Netherlands). His main expertise is in applied remote sensing, first developed as a research topic (microwave backscattering of soils) and later as a commercial activity in a co-founded remote sensing and GIS consultancy. After he joined the JRC, in 1997, he has further developed his remote sensing and informatics expertise in agricultural statistics and subsidy control applications, in fisheries monitoring, and in civil security applications (Copernicus emergency services). In 2014, he returned to the agriculture theme to help develop the uptake of the European Copernicus Sentinels in global agricultural monitoring applications.

Jean Dusart

Digital Economy Unit, Directorate Growth and Innovation, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre, European Commission Jean Dusart is Scientific and Technical Project Manager in the Joint Research Centre, European Commission. He is currently leading the Danube Reference and Data Services Infrastructure initiative in the context of the JRC support to the European Union Danube Strategy. He has a postgraduate degree in Cartography, Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

Natalia Kussul

Deputy Director, Space Research Institute (SRA) NASU-SSAU Natalia Kussul is Deputy Director and Head of the Department of Space Information Technologies and Systems, SRI NASU-State Space Agency of Ukraine, Kyiv. She is also a Professor in the National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, Kyiv. She holds a Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics from the Institute of Cybernetics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Yurii Nabivanets

Deputy Director for Science, Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine and National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Yurii Nabivanets is Deputy Director for Science at the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute of the State Emergency Service. Since 2005 he has been working in the Advisory Group on Pollution Monitoring and Assessment (Commission on the Protection of the Black Sea Against Pollution). He was Co-Chair of the Accident Prevention Task Group (International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River) for the period 2010 – 2011. He has been Planning and managing national and international projects in the field of Environmental sciences including water resources management, water quality assessment, and climate change studies. He has Academic knowledge of Environmental sciences, Freshwater Hydrochemistry, Hydrology, and Analytical Chemistry.

Jan Kucera

Disaster Risk Management Unit, Directorate Space Security and Migration, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre, European Commission Jan Kucera is Scientific Project Officer in the Disaster Risk Management Unit at Joint Research Centre. Since 2010 he has been member of the JRC team which set up the Emergency Management Service (EMS) of Copernicus (European Earth Observation Programme). Since 2014 he has been in charge of the technical and administrative management of Copernicus EMS – Rapid Mapping; a service which provides fast damage assessment of natural disasters using satellite imagery. He has a PhD degree from the University of Tokyo (Japan) in the field of geoinformatics.

Yuriy Kostyuchenko

State Institution “Scientific Center for Aerospace Research of the Earth” of NAS of Ukraine Yuri Kostyuchenko is a Leading Research Scientist and leader of an Ad-hoc workgroup on disaster analysis and risk assessment of the Scientific Centre for Aerospace Research of the Earth, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In 2011-2014 he was Assistant Professor of the Geomorphology and Soil Science Department of the Faculty of Geography, Kiev University. Since 2000 he has been appointed Executive secretary of Ukrainian National Member Organization of International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). He was honored by a special award of Space Research Council of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2003 for fundamental research in remote sensing. He received the “Makarov” Medal of National Space Agency of Ukraine in 2012 for development of advanced technologies in a remote sensing. His research interests include remote sensing application for environmental and socio-ecological security analysis, risk analysis using non-parametric approaches. He has more than 70 publications in remote sensing. He holds a PhD in Geophysics and Remote Sensing.

Ulla Engelmann

Head of Unit, International, Interinstitutional Relations and Outreach, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre, European Commission Since 2010 Ulla Engelmann has been Head of the Interinstitutional, International Relations and Outreach Unit of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Brussels. Ulla Engelmann studied chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany and completed a PhD in analytical and radiochemistry at the National Research Centre in Karlsruhe in 1992. She started working at the JRC in Ispra, Italy in 1993, the first years in fusion research and from 1997 onwards she managed the public relations team. In 2004 she became JRC Head of the Internal and External communications Unit, based in Ispra and Brussels, responsible for strategic communication for all JRC sites. JRC is the European Commission's in-house science service and the only DG executing direct research, providing science advice to EU policy in a wide range of areas, including research on understanding the complex interactions between human activity and the physical environment, and how to manage strategic resources (water, land, forests, food, minerals, etc.) in a more sustainable manner. The JRC is supporting the EU policies with research dedicated to the assessment of the evolution and drivers of climate change.

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