Anastasia Botsi is trained in European law, and has Professional University Certificate (ECPC-B DPO) from the European Centre of Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC) in Maastricht University. She has also been sponsored by the Dutch Science Foundation to conduct research on the legal issues of managing cyber-security risks and cyber-attacks.

Assess. iur. Eva Schlehahn is a senior legal researcher and consultant at the Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany (ULD, translated: Independent Center for Privacy Protection). Since 2010, she has been working in various EC-funded FP7 and H2020 R&D projects focused on European data protection law, privacy, and security.

Topics covered by her work entail e. g. methodologies for data protection requirements analysis per case basis, data protection risk assessments, cloud computing, identity management, accessibility, usability, IT security, cybersecurity, Big Data, consent management, criminal intelligence analysis, and data privacy vocabularies and semantics. Moreover, she conducted extensive work on surveillance oriented security technologies. Her research interest is involving interdisciplinary requirements analysis to achieve comprehensive and applicable Privacy by Design solutions, as well as compliance of IT solutions with the European data protection framework. Eva Schlehahn is currently involved in the European H2020-funded projects SPECIAL (https://www.specialprivacy.eu/) and CANVAS (https://canvas-project.eu/).

Mr. Raniero Rapone has over 14 years of experience in delivery or research and development projects related to networking, computer security and cyber defence solutions. His experience spans implementation of operational networking and cyber security systems in support of defence, critical infrastructures protection and smart cities.

His technical experience includes a wide range of cyber security related technologies including switching and networking, firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems and advanced threat protection. Within the context of the FP7 PANOPTESEC project, Raniero developed the simulation environment platform to be used for development, test and validation of the system.

Senior Surgeon of the Emergency and Trauma Surgery Unit at the Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Gemelli (FPG) and Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Rome Catholic University School of Medicine (UCSC). She is also an Associate Researcher of the Italian National Council of Research (CNR-IASI); Fellow of the American College of Surgeon, of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma and of the European Society for Trauma and Emergency Surgery (ESTES).

Her main interests focus on hospital surge plans, medical response to major incidents, emergency and trauma care system, decision support systems for major emergencies, training guidelines and standards in the framework of EU Programme projects (SICMA, EDEN, PULSE, REACHING OUT, ENCIRCLE, NO-FEAR). To all of these she actively participated as Investigator.