Jacco Konijn

Jacco Konijn

I’m working in project management in the University of Amsterdam (UvA) for a lifetime now, and since 2008 I’ve been involved in the design and setup of LifeWatch as a legal entity. In my UvA position I was responsible for the LifeWatch Preparatory Project and later coordinating and contributing to the sequence of ENVRI projects, establishing LifeWatch ERIC as an important partner in the ENVRI community. I was involved in further projects like Creative-B, Globis-B, RAMIRI and ERIC-Forum. Since 2020 I’m working part-time for LifeWatch ERIC as General Manager of the Virtual Laboratory and Innovation Center (VLIC), the common facility in Amsterdam.

Main Publications:

  • W. Daniel Kissling, Alex Hardisty, Enrique Alonso García, Monica Santamaria, Francesca De Leo, GrazianoPesole, Jörg Freyhof, David Manset, Silvia Wissel, Jacco Konijn & Wouter Los (2015): Towards global interoperability for supporting biodiversity research on essential biodiversity variables (EBVs), Biodiversity, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14888386.2015.10687
  • Ari J Asmi, Jacco Konijn, Antti Pursula: Environmental Research Infrastructures Strategy for 2030 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.2067537.v1
  • Los, W., Alonso García, E., & Konijn, J. (2018). GLOBIS-B Essential Biodiversity Variables Position Paper for Policy Makers (vFinal). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1297351

Alberto Basset

Alberto Basset

Alberto Basset is Director of LifeWatch ERIC Service Centre, Member of its Executive Board and full professor of ecology at the University of Salento (Italy). His main research interests are on biodiversity organization and maintenance, ecosystem functioning and services and their responses to natural and anthropic pressures, including climate changes. The research activities have produced more than 200 publications on international peer reviewed journals, being quoted in 2014 as one of the 20 top scientists for the scientific production on ecosystem ecology. He has been president of the Italian Ecological Society, of the Ecological European Federation and of LaguNet, being founding member and current president of the Euro-Mediterranean Federation of the Lagoon Research Networks (EUROMEDLAG). Alberto Basset is currently member of both General Assembly and Executive Board of the ‘eScience European Infrastructure on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research (LifeWatch ERIC)’ and of the Advisory Committee of the European Research Infrastructure on ‘Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water column Observatory (EMSO ERIC)’ and he is the University of Salento responsible in the National Node of the European Research Infrastructure on Long Term Ecological Research (eLTER RI). Alberto Basset is delegate of the Ministry of University and Research in the European Partnership ‘Biodiversa+’ and he has been a member of the Italian delegation to the recent G20 meeting on challenges and opportunities for research and innovation in the Amazon and Tropical Forests.