Coordination Office
The masterminds behind DiSSCo
The DiSSCo coordination team leads the work on (i) development of the Research Infrastructure and consortium, (ii) securing the required political and financial support, (iii) managing (and contributing to) the writing process of DiSSCo-linked project proposal, and (iv) coordinating the activities of the National task Forces at the national level.
- Dimitris Koureas (Head, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, NL)
- Ana Casino (CETAF, BE)
- Wouter Addink (Naturalis Biodiversity Center, NL)
- Karsten Gödderz (CETAF, BE)
- Olaf Bánki (Naturalis Biodiversity Center, NL)
- Eva Alonso (Naturalis Biodiversity Center, NL)
- Mil de Reus (Naturalis Biodiversity Center, NL)
Past members
- Anna Hutson (Natural History Museum London, UK)
- Kristina Gorman (Natural History Museum London, UK)
- Maarten Heerlien (Naturalis Biodiversity Center, NL)
To contact the coordination team, please write to info@dissco.eu.
The whole team
Who’s on board?
Steering Committee
The DiSSCo Steering Committee consists of the directors and other personnel of those institutions that contributed financially to the preparation of the DiSSCo proposal for inclusion on the ESFRI roadmap 2018 and the Coordination Team. Its members are:
- Edwin van Huis (Chair, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, General Director)
- Peter Schalk (Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Deputy Director)
- Volker Mosbrugger (Senckenberg Society for Nature Research, General Director)
- Johannes Vogel (Berlin Natural History Museum, General Director)
- Christoph Häuser (Berlin Natural History Museum, Deputy Director)
- Michael Dixon (Natural History Museum London, General Director)
- Ian Owens (Natural History Museum London, Director of Science)
- Bruno David (National Museum of Natural HistoryParis, General Director)
- Michel Guiraud (National Museum of Natural HistoryParis, Head of Collections)
- Vanessa Demanoff (National Museum of Natural History Paris, Head of RCO)
- Camille Pisani (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, General Director)
- Patrick Semal (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Head of Section)
- Peter C. Kjaergaard (Natural History Museum of Denmark, General Director)
- Michelle Price (CETAF, Chair)
National Task Forces
The consortium members are organised in National Task Forces. Each of those is represented by a national head, which you can contact through these e-mail addresses:
AUSTRIA
Ernst Vitek
at@dissco.eu
BELGIUM
Patricia Mergen
be@dissco.eu
BULGARIA
Boyko Georgiev
bg@dissco.eu
CZECH REPUBLIC
Jiřri Frank
cz@dissco.eu
DENMARK
Henrik Enghoff
dk@dissco.eu
ESTONIA
Urmas Köljalg
ee@dissco.eu
FINLAND
Hannu Saarenmaa
fi@dissco.eu
FRANCE
Michel Guiraud
fr@dissco.eu
GERMANY
Christoph Häuser
de@dissco.eu
GREECE
Nikos Poulakakis
gr@dissco.eu
HUNGARY
Zoltan Korsos
hu@dissco.eu
ITALY
Luca Bartolozzi
it@dissco.eu
LUXEMBOURG
Alain Faber
lu@dissco.eu
NETHERLANDS
Wouter Addink
nl@dissco.eu
NORWAY
Eirik Rindal
no@dissco.eu
POLAND
Piotr Tykarski
pl@dissco.eu
PORTUGAL
Maria Judite Alves
pt@dissco.eu
SLOVAKIA
Karol Marhold
sk@dissco.eu
SPAIN
Santiago Merino
es@dissco.eu
SWEDEN
Irene Bisang
se@dissco.eu
UNITED KINGDOM
Vince Smith
uk@dissco.eu
CETAF
Ana Casino
ana.casino@cetaf.org
Proposal authors and editors
The Coordination Team and the heads of the National task Forces collaborated on bringing the porposal together, coordinating the very valuable work of numerous, highly engaged authors in different fields of the proposal. These contributors are as follows, listed by the area of the proposal they contributed to:
For the Science Case and ESFRI Questionnaire:
- Wouter ADDINK, co-editor (Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
- Geoff BELKNAP (University of Leicester)
- Walter BERENDSOHN (Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin)
- Irene BISANG (Swedish Museum of Natural History)
- Ana CASINO, co-editor (CETAF)
- Gabriele DRÖGE (Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin)
- Jiři FRANK (National Museum, Prague)
- Boyko GEORGIEV (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia)
- Quentin GROOM (Botanic Garden Meise)
- Borislav GUÉORGUIEV (National Museum of Natural History, Sofia)
- Eva HÄFFNER, co-editor (Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin)
- Andrea HAHN (GBIF)
- Donald HOBERN (GBIF)
- Anna HUTSON (Natural History Museum, London)
- Karsten GÖDDERZ (CETAF)
- Dimitris KOUREAS, co-editor (Natural History Museum, London)
- Jiři KVACEK (National Museum, Prague)
- Jan-Willem MANTEL (Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
- Patricia MERGEN (Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren)
- Peter SCHALK (Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
- Vince SMITH (Natural History Museum, London)
- Rutger VOS (Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
For the Technical Design:
- Wouter ADDINK, co-editor (Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
- Andrea HAHN (GBIF)
- Donald HOBERN (GBIF)
- Dimitris KOUREAS, co-editor (Natural History Museum, London)
- Wouter LOS (University of Amsterdam)
And for the Governance and Finance Model:
- Wouter ADDINK (Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
- Ana CASINO (CETAF)
- Dimitris KOUREAS (Natural History Museum, London)
- Wouter LOS (University of Amsterdam)
Proposal reviewers
We also extend our gratitutde to the reviewers of the proposal who supported us in this challenging process:
- Walter Berendsohn [Technical Design review] (Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin)
- Peter Fletcher [Science Case review] (Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK)
- Tom Gilbert [Science Case review] (Natural History Museum of Denmark)
- Anton Güntsch [Technical Design review] (Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin)
- Donald Hobern [Technical Design review] (GBIF)
- Rob Hooft [Technical Design review] (Dutch Techcentre for Life Sciences)
- Jacco Konijn [Finances review] (University of Amsterdam)
- Laurence Livermore [copyediting] (Natural History Museum, London)
- Wouter Los [overall proposal review] (University of Amsterdam)
- Koen Martens [Science Case review] (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences)
- Roderic Page [Science Case review] (University of Glasgow)
- Carsten Rahbek [Science Case review] (Imperial College, London)
Ambassadors
DiSSCo ambassadors are high-profile renowned scientists and managers who publicly advocate the vision and objectives of DiSSCo. Our current ambassadors are:
Professor John Wood CBE, FREng
Where we are based
DiSSCo is all over Europe!
