University of Amsterdam
Professional Activities
Education & Employment
- 2023–presentFull Professor "Multiscale Networks", Informatics Institute (IvI), Universiteit van Amsterdam
- 2017–2023Associate Professor, MNS group, Informatics Institute (IvI), Universiteit van Amsterdam
- 2011–2017Assistant Professor, SNE group, Informatics Institute (IvI), Universiteit van Amsterdam
- 2004–2011Researcher, SNE group, Informatics Institute (IvI), Universiteit van Amsterdam
- 2001–2004Network Engineer, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Stanford, CA, USA
- 2000–2001Postgraduate Researcher, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Stanford, CA, USA
- 1996–2000Graduate student in Particle Physics, University of Turin, Italy
- 1995–1996Research Fellowship, INFN – National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Italy
- 1990–1995Undergraduate in Physics (cum laude), University of Turin, Italy
Management Roles
UvA Leadership
- Scientific director and department chair, Institute of Informatics (IvI), UvA (2024–present)
- Education director, Graduate School of Informatics, UvA (2020–2023)
- Group head, Multiscale Networked Systems (MNS) group, UvA (2020–2024)
Faculty Activities
- Member of QUSoft program (2019–present)
- Member of AmSec – Amsterdam Security initiative (2018–present)
- Invited participant, UvA-wide Strategische Leiderschap program (2023)
- Member of Institute of Informatics management team (2020–2023)
- Member of Faculty Education Director group (OWIDO) (2020–2023)
- Invited participant, UvA-wide Academic Leadership program (2020)
- Chair, Board of Studies for SNE and SE Master (2012–2020)
- Board member, WIF – Women in the Faculty committee (2012–2018)
- Invited participant, FNWI Ambassadeur Programma (2013/2014)
- Regular member of hiring committees within institute and faculty
Professional Activities
National Activities
- Deputy chair, SURF Scientific Advisory board (2021–present)
- (co)Lead, SIG CompSys in IPN (2022–present)
- Member, SIG EDI – Inclusion and Diversity, IPN (2023–2025)
- Chair, steering committee of NWO ICT.WithIndustry (2020–2023)
- ASCI scientific committee (wetenschapcommissie) (2013–2021)
- Steering committee, NWO ICT.Open conference (2019 and 2020)
- Track coordinator for ASCI at ICT.Open (2017)
- UvA contact for the Open Science Data Cloud (OSDC)/PIRE international collaboration (2012–2016)
- UvA/IvI editor of the Research Assessment document (2015)
International Activities
- Member of Council of Advisors for the NSF funded FABRIC project (2025–present)
- Member of Advisory Group of Stakeholders, European Ecosystem on Virtual Human Twins (EDITH project) (2023–present)
- National representative, Supervisory board SLICES project (2023–present)
- National contact point, Fabric across Border (NSF funded project) (2023–present)
- Member of the Data Mover Challenge international competition (2023–present)
- Co-chair, Network Markup Language Working Group, Open Grid Forum (2006–2009)
Conference Organization
- Program chair, RE-NET workshop 2026 [Utrecht]
- Local chair, ACM SIGCOMM conference 2022 [Amsterdam]
- Travel Grant Chair, ACM IMC conference 2019 [Amsterdam]
- Program chair, INDIS workshop 2019 [Denver], 2018 [Dallas], 2017 [Denver], 2016 [Salt Lake City]
- General chair, ICT.Open 2018 conference [Amersfoort]
- Program chair, NetCloud 2017 workshop [Hong Kong]
- Program chair, ICT4S conference 2016 [Amsterdam]
- Program chair, NetCloud 2016 workshop [Luxembourg]
- Program chair, "Collaborative research using eScience infrastructure and high speed networks" workshop 2012 [Chicago]
- Organizing committee, SuperComputing conference (2001–2005)
Technical Program Committees
- TPC, NetSoft conference 2026 [Berlin], 2025 [Budapest], 2024 [St Louis], 2023 [Madrid]
- TPC, IFIP Networking conference 2023 [Barcelona], 2022 [Catania], 2021 [virtual], 2020 [Paris], 2018 [Zurich]
- TPC, SecSoft workshop 2023 [Madrid]
- TPC, CloudNet conference 2022 [Paris]
- TPC, ICT4S conference 2020 [Bristol], 2018 [Toronto], 2015 [Copenhagen], 2014 [Stockholm]
- TPC, CompSys conference 2018 and 2019 [NL]
- TPC, ON*VECTOR workshop (2014–2018) [San Diego, CA]
- TPC, IEEE Cluster conference, Sep 2014 [Madrid]
- TPC, ASCI.OPEN2013 [Delft, NL]
- TPC, CGC2013 – International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing [Karlsruhe]
- TPC, GridNets 2009 [Athens] and 2008 [Beijing]
- TPC, MG08 – Mardi Gras 2008 conference on Distributed Applications [Baton Rouge, LA]
- TPC, PFLDnet2007 – Workshop on Protocols for FAST Long-Distance Networks [Marina del Rey, CA]
Invited Keynotes
- Network control – PDP conference, Torino (2025)
- Towards the Responsible Internet – IFIP Networking, Barcelona (2023)
- The Responsible Internet – CloudNet, Paris (2022)
PhD Candidates Supervised
Graduated
- Shih-Huan Hsu (2026)
- Jamila Alsayed Kassem (2025)
- Gorka Muguruza Lasa (2025)
- Lluís Farràs Escolà (2025)
- Nan Li (2025)
- Yuandou Wang (2025)
- Sara Shakeri (2024)
- Hongyun Liu (2024)
- Ruyue Xin (2023)
- Zeshun Shi (2022)
- Lu Zhang (2022)
- Ralph Koning (2020)
- Fahimeh Alizadeh (2019)
- Hao Zhu (2015)
Current
- Angelos Dimoglis (Oct. 2022–present, CATRIN project)
- Ziyan Zhang (Sep. 2023–present, KAT-2 project)
- Tommaso Pacciani (Sep. 2024–present, FNS project)
- Zhiheng Yang (Oct. 2024–present, FNS project)
Scholarships, Grants & Prizes
- Top cited article, Optical Switching and Networking. Jeroen van der Ham, Freek Dijkstra, Paola Grosso, Ronald van der Pol, Andree Toonk, Cees de Laat, "A distributed topology information system for optical networks based on the semantic web," Elsevier Journal on Optical Switching and Networking, Vol. 5, Issues 2–3, June 2008, pp. 85–93
- Best paper award, ABC:MI'10. Zhiming Zhao, Paola Grosso, Ralph Koning, Jeroen van der Ham, Cees de Laat, "An agent based planner for including network QoS in scientific workflows," Int'l workshop on Agent Based Computing: from Model to Implementation VII (ABC:MI'10)
- 2008 International Award for Innovation in Networking, CENIC – Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California
- SLAC Research Division Top Performer 2004
- SLAC Research Division Top Performer 2003
- Della Riccia Fellowship 2000, awarded to outstanding young Italian Physics researchers to work abroad
- INFN (Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics) Research Fellowship 1996, granted to recently graduated promising Master students