Andrei Morgan is a paediatrician / neonatologist, an epidemiogist, and a free software and open science advocate. He trained in the UK but since 2017 has been based in Paris, France, where he works as a researcher at INSERM (Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale - the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research), and also does some work as a doctor. His main interest is focused on understanding differences between countries in the organisation of health care and their consequent impact on long-term population health. In his spare time, he enjoys being with friends, good conversation, cooking, reading, cycling and fire juggling.

Angela is an epidemiologist at the University of Copenhagen, where her research focuses on how early-life exposures influence the gut microbiome, the development of the immune response and the risk of asthma and allergy. Since 2017, she has been actively involved in the Horizon2020 LifeCycle Project, a collaboration that is bringing together data from multiple birth cohorts across Europe and Australia to establish a FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) data resource known as the EU Child Cohort Network. In this project she has helped to develop protocols for data harmonisation and establish the infrastructure for the federated analysis of data using DataSHIELD. Angela is now using DataSHIELD to conduct her own research into how early-life exposure to pets influences the risk of allergic sensitization, asthma and impaired lung function in childhood.

Artur has been a senior researcher at INESC TEC, Portugal since 1998. He is assistant coordinator of the Centre for Information Systems and Computer Graphics (CSIG). Current research interests include platforms and methods for collaborative research, privacy-preserving distributed computation, the semantic sensor Web (IoT) and Big Data processing. From October 1996 to December 1997, he was an associate member of CERN - European Laboratory for High Energy Physics, IT Division/Web Office. His research is applied in two major areas: Personalized Health Research (PHR) and Earth and Ocean Observation Science (EOOS). The PHR area currently subdivides into: a) personalised Internet-based treatments; and b) human data storage, privacy-preserving processing and controlled FAIR data sharing. In this area, he participates in several European projects, including ICT4Depression (FP7), E-COMPARED (FP7), STOP Depression (EEA Grant), iCare4Depression (FCT), RECAP Preterm (H2020), EUCAN-Connect (H2020) and iReceptor Plus (H2020). In these projects, he often undertakes the responsibility for the system’s architecture, platform implementation, or technical coordination.

Becca Wilson is an interdisciplinary researcher with a career spanning the space, atmospheric and health sciences. She is currently at University of Liverpool developing open source software for the sharing, access and immersive data visualisation of sensitive health data. Becca holds significant expertise in science communication and public engagement – working with schools, museums and funders nationally. She is passionate about increasing diversity in STEM, particularly amongst ethnic minority groups and people with disabilities, and is a disability activist committed to improving inclusivity in the academic sector. She blogs for AccessAble about accessibility and is a massive whisky geek!

Juan R Gonzalez is an Associate Research Professor at ISGlobal where he leads the Bioinformatic Group in Genetic Epidemiology (BRGE). He has co-authored more than 160 scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals and has extensive experience in large international research projects. As an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Mathematics at Autonomous University of Barcelona, his educational activities focus on providing graduate lectures on advanced statistical methods and post-graduate lectures in biostatistics and in omic data analyses based on his book “Omic association studies with R and Bioconductor”. His work focuses on the development of statistical and computational methods for the analysis and comprehension of different omic data motivated by a wide range of questions of biological and clinical relevance. These include genomic (CNVs, inversions, mosaicisms, loss of chromosome Y), transcriptomic (RNA-seq and alternative splicing) and proteomic among others. The analysis of the exposome, its characterization and how to integrate it with different omic layers is also another active line of research of his group as part of an FP7 European project called HELIX whose aims are going to be further investigated in the H2020 project called ATHLETE to which Juan R Gonzalez is a WP leader. His group is also very active in developing tools to perform non-disclosive data analyses using DataSHIELD (https://github.com/isglobal-brge).

Kim is a physician and specialist in healthcare management. She is a PhD candidate at Generation R, Erasmus MC, The Netherlands. Her area of interest is the relation of substance abuse during pregnancy, and metabolic, psychological or psychiatric disorders in childhood and adolescence.