SPEAKERS

Managing European research projects –
Best practices from NM2 for FP7 projects
Heidelberg, 8 February 2007

 

 

Francesca Possenti, EU Office of BMBF
(Federal Ministry of Education & Research)

Francesca Possenti studied law and graduated with summa cum laude in Italy. She worked as legal adviser for commercial and company law, international M&A and contract law in a main international law firm. From 2003 to 2005 she worked as a researcher at the Albert Ludwigs University and at Max Planck Institute. During this time she specialized in commercial contracts, subvention law and project financing with particular focus on the 6th Framework Programme. From 2005 she worked as senior legal adviser and manager for international and European contracts at the EU-Bureau of the Albert Ludwigs University. In January 2006 she joined the EU-Bureau of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in Germany where she assumed the office of the German National Contact Point for legal and financial issues.

 

Douglas Williams, BT, Technical Project Manager of NM2

Doug Williams works in the Broadband Applications Research centre of BT's Research and Venturing team. He is the project director for NM2 (New Media for a New Millennium), a European Collaborative project developing new forms of TV-like media that can be delivered over broadband and shaped by the viewer to suit their preferences. Doug has been involved in research into the changing nature of the media resulting from the Internet, and more recently broadband, for about 10 years, but originally joined BT, in 1987, to develop novel optical fibres, a topic in which he holds a PhD.

 

Peter Stollenmayer, Eurescom, Co-ordinator of NM2

Peter Stollenmayer has worked in telecommunications for more than 25 years. After working for Deutsche Telekom and Shape Technical Centre, in 1997 he changed to Eurescom, where he has led many projects in the area of telecommunication users and markets. Currently he is coordinator of the FP6 Integrated Project NM2 (New Media for a New Millennium), and involved in the FP6 project SOCQUIT, which is focusing on quality of life, social capital and ICTs.

 

Marian F. Ursu, Goldsmiths College, University of London

Marian Ursu completed his undergraduate studies in Computer Science in Romania. After graduation (1990), he worked as a Lecturer for 5 years at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania). During this time, he was a member of the core team that set up and managed a large joint international EU Tempus project. In 1995 he came to the UK to do a PhD in Artificial Intelligence at Brunel University, Department of Computing and Information Systems. Since 1998 he is a Lecturer in the Department of Computing, Goldsmiths College, University of London, and since 2002 he is the department's Director of Studies. Marian's research is in Symbolic AI - Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Currently, he leads the Goldsmiths' participation in NM2 and co-runs a research project with the Tate.
 

 

Milon Gupta, Eurescom (Moderator)

Milon Gupta works as Marketing and PR Manager at the European project management company Eurescom GmbH in Heidelberg, Germany. In this function he is the editor-in-chief of the R&D magazine Eurescom mess@ge and responsible for dissemination activities in several EU projects, including NM2, DAIDALOS, and BReATH. He has more than twelve years of consulting and management experience in corporate communications and holds a master's degree in history, political science, and communication science from Bochum University, Germany.

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