Who We Are

Matti Heikkurinen

Matti has considerable experience in both commercial product development and academic research and development. After studying computer science he worked for the Finnish state and Nokia before taking a post with the Helsinki Institute of Physics and later CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

Matti has worked on many international projects such as European DataGrid, EGEE and e-IRGSP, as well as being part of the team developing innovative industry-academia research partnership in the CERN openlab context. Recently he has been working with the eIRGSP2 project, supporting the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group, a policy body he has worked with since 2004.

Philipp Wieder

Philipp is an IT specialist with a focus on distributed computing technologies. Since 2001 he has focussed on Grid Computing, specifically work on Service Level Agreements and solving highly challenging interoperability issues to the management of emergent behaviour in large-scale Grid systems (especially in the field of scheduling).

His contributions have lead to appointments in several important positions in various high-level cross-project initiatives, such as chairing the EU Grid project-wide “Co-ordination of Standardisation” effort, leading the standardisation activities of projects like GRIP or NextGRID, or co-chairing the Grid Scheduling Architecture Research Group at the Open Grid Forum.

Owen Appleton

Owen began in the life sciences before taking a left turn into the communication of science and technology. He has worked in a range of communicative roles, from PR to journalism and communications strategy, as well as working on entrepreneurial projects.

He worked at CERN for some years, where he helped manage outreach and communications for the worlds largest Grid Computing infrastructure, as well as dealing with issues of policy and commercialisation. Recently Owen has been managing exploitation and communication for the KnowARC project, in which ETL is a partner.