Gabriel Pelouze

Developer for cloud-based virtual research environments

Gabriel has a PhD in plasma astrophysics and postdoctoral research experience. His research focused on the heating mechanisms in the Sun’s atmosphere, using a wide range of remote-sensing data analysis methods, as well as HPC simulations. At LifeWatch ERIC, he contributes to the development of the NaaVRE platform and the co-development of Virtual Labs for the research community. To that end, he uses modern software development and devOps practices. He is involved in all the steps of the process, from designing the software to delivering it as a service to the researchers. This includes front-end development, microservice applications design and implementation, system administration, and service operation.

Zhiming Zhao

Zhiming Zhao

Technical manager of VLIC
He is the technical manager of VLIC and leads the development of innovative Virtual Research Environment (VRE) and Virtual Laboratory (VL) solutions to support advanced data- and computing- intensive research activities. He obtained his PhD in computer science from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) in 2004. He is an associate professor and Chair of the Multiscale Networked Systems (MNS) research group at the Informatics Institute at the University of Amsterdam.
His research interests include Cloud computing, data science, scientific workflow management, Digital Twins, and Blockchain. He coordinates the development of the ENVRI Knowledge Base and Notebook as a VRE (NaaVRE) framework. He is an IEEE senior member and serves as the managing editor of the Journal of Cloud Computing.

Main publications:

1. Li, N., Farshidi, S. & Zhao, Z. Search Multiple Types of Research Assets From Jupyter Notebook. Softw Pract Exp spe.3406 (2025) https://doi.org/10.1002/spe.3406
2. Wang, Y., Tripathi, S., Farshidi, S., Zhao, Z.: D-VRE: From a Jupyter-enabled Private Research Environment to Decentralized Collaborative Research Ecosystem. Blockchain: Research and Applications. 100244 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bcra.2024.100244.
3. Zhao, Z., Koulouzis, S., Bianchi, R., Farshidi, S., Shi, Z., Xin, R., Wang, Y., Li, N., Shi, Y., Timmermans, J., Kissling, W.D.: Notebook-as-a-VRE (NaaVRE): From private notebooks to a collaborative cloud virtual research environment. Softw Pract Exp. spe.3098 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1002/spe.3098.