EPOS - European Plate Observing System

Research Infrastructure and E-Science for Data and Observatories on Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Surface Dynamics and Tectonics

Composite view of the EPOS infrastructure showing existing networks with seismometer and typical site, experimental laboratories, tomographic results obtained from the recorded data and simulation of volcano eruption.

e-science plays a pivotal role for EPOS

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EPOS PP BGR

In this page you can find more information on the EPOS PP Board of Governmental Representatives composition

Participant	Country	Nomination	Position or Organisation
1. INGV (Official Representative not formalised)	Italy	Dr. Federico Cinquepalmi Dr. Mario Ali	Director, UFFICIO II – Promozione, programmazione e coordinamento della ricerca in ambito internazionale, MIUR, Dipartimento per l'Università, l'alta formazione artistica, musicale e coreutica e per la ricerca Direzione generale per l'internazionalizzazione della ricerca, MIUR, Dipartimento per l'università, l'alta formazione artistica, musicale e coreutica e per la ricerca
2. CNRS	France	Susanna Gota-Goldmann	Head of Very Large Research Infrastructures Department. French Ministry for Research and Higher Education
3. GFZ	Germany	Karl Wollin	German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
4. VUA	The Netherlands	Marc de Jonge	Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
5. ORFEUS	/	- none expected -	As an NGO, Orfeus will have no Governmental Representative.
6. INCDFP	Romania	RuxandraPopescu Nicolae Panin	Counsellor of National Authority for Scientific Research- governmental representative Counsellor in GeoEcoMar
7. IMO	Iceland	Mr. Hugi Olafsson Fridrika Hardardottir	Director of Policy and International Affairs, Minsitry for the Environment Skuggasund 1, 150 Reykjavik (Iceland) Icelandic ESFRI representative at the Ministry of Education
8. ETHZ	Switzerland	Philippe Langer	State Secretariate for Education and Research (SER)
9. NERC	United Kingdom	Dr. Steven Wilson	Active Chief Executive
10. UIB	Norway	Jon BørreØrbæk	Senior Advisor Research Council of Norway
11. TUBITAK	Turkey	Dr. Fuat Oktay Dr. Murat Nurlu	President of the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency of Turkey (AFAD) Earthquake Department Presidency, AFAD
12. GSI	Ireland
13. IST	Portugal
14. CSIC	Spain	José Ramón Sánchez Quintana	Subdirección General de Instalaciones y Organismos Internacionales, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
15. NOA	Greece
16. UU	Sweden
17. IGFPAS	Poland
18. UCPH	Denmark
19. IGASCR	Czech Republic	Dr. Jan Hrusak	Director of the Section for Research and Development, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
20. KNMI	The Netherlands	- as VUA -	- as VUA -