Abstract:
How to support research with high-end ICT infrastructure? How to deal with the the growing deluge of data coming from all disciplines of science? How to organize these efforts at a National level with many stakeholders? How to strengthen the Dutch Knowledge Economy and help companies with their innovation by supporting them with advanced ICT?
In this keynote I will explore these questions and illustrate them with concrete examples, high-lights and challenges.
About:
Maurice Bouwhuis (1969) obtained a PhD in physics from the University of Utrecht while working at the National Institute for subatomic physics Nikhef in the area of experimental nuclear physics. He has worked as a post-doc in the US and at a high-energy physics laboratory in Hamburg, Germany, where he was part of the management of the HERMES experiment. During this time his interest shifted from pure experimental physics to large-scale data processing and computation.
Maurice Bouwhuis joined SARA in 2004, first as a senior consultant and from 2006 as leader of the 'eScience & Cloud Services' group. This group aims to support scientists with the deployment of advanced ICT, and is up to date with all major scientific disciplines. He currently is the Relations and Service Manager for SURFsara. Maurice has held leadership positions in National projects like BiGGrid and the BioAssist program of the Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre, as well as in international projects like EGI, EUDAT and Fortissimo.