Dr. Paola Grosso - Education and professional activities

Here you will find my education and working history, together with a list of my professional activities:

Education and employment history:

Associate professor; UvA (June 2016- present)
Assistant professor: UvA (Mar. 2011 - 2016)
Researcher: UvA (Sep.2004- Feb. 2011)
Network engineer: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) - Stanford, Ca USA (Jan. 2001- Aug. 2004)
Postgraduate researcher: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) - Stanford, Ca USA (Jan. 2000- Dec.2000)
Graduate: Physics - University of Turin, Italy (degree on Feb.2000)
Research fellowship: INFN - National Institute Nuclear Physics, Italy (Dec. 1995- Oct. 1996)
Undergraduate: Physics - University of Turin, Italy (degree cum laude on Nov.1995)

Organization and management

Current
Chair of the steering committee ICT with Industry workshop (2018-current)
Steering commiteee ICT.Open (2017-present)
Chair of the education committee (onderwijscommissie) for the SNE and SE Master (2012-present)
ASCI scientific committee (wetenschapcommissie) (2013 - present)
Past
Board member of the WIF - Women in the Faculty - committee (2012-2018)
Chair of the PIRE workshop 2014 (Amsterdam 16-20 June 2014)
Invited participant to the FNWI Ambassadeur Programma (2013/2014)
UvA contact for the Open Science Data Cloud (OSDC)/PIRE international collaboration (2012-2015)
Editor of High Speed Networks for Research special section in Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) journal (mid 2013)

Standardization activities

Conference chairs

Program chair of the 2019 INDIS workshop [Denver]
Program chair of the 2018 INDIS workshop [Dallas]
Program chair of the ICT.Open conference 2018 [Amersfoort]
Program committee chair of the 2017 INDIS workshop [Denver]
Program chair of the ICT4S conference 2016 [Amsterdam]
Organizing committee of the 2-16 INDIS workshop [Salt Lake City]
Chair of the NetCloud 2016 workshop [Luxembourg]
Organizing committee member of the "Collaborative research using eScience infrastructure and high speed networks" workshop, co-located with the IEEE International Conference on eScience on 9 October 2012 in Chicago, Illinois (2012)
Organizing committee member of the SuperComputing conference (2001-2005)

Conference committees

TCP of the IFIP conference 2018 [Zurich, Switzerland]
TCP of the ICT4S conference 2018 [Toronto, Canada]
TCP of the IFIP 2018 conference [ Zurich, Switzerland]
TPC of the annual ON*VECTOR workshop (2014-present) [San Diego, CA]
TPC of the ICT4S conference 2015 [Copenhagen, Denmark]
TPC of the 2014 IEEE CLuster conference 22-26 Sep. 2014 - Madrid
TPC of the ICT4S conference - 24-27 Aug. 2014 - Stockholm
Evaluation committee EU EYE-LabSurfing Jan. 2014
TPC of ASCI.OPEN2013 - Delft Nov. 2013
Technical program committee of the "CGC2013 (International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing 2013)" located in Karlsruhe, Germany, Sept. 30 to Oct. 2, 2013.
Technical program committee member GridNets2009 (Third International ICST Conference on Networks for Grid Applications) [Athens, Greece]
Technical program committee member GridNets2008 (Second International ICST Conference on Networks for Grid Applications) [Beijing, China]
Technical program committee member MG08 (Mardi Gras 2008 conference Distributed Applications) [Baton Rouge, LS, Usa]
Technical program committee member PFLDnet2007 (Fifth International Workshop on Protocols for FAST Long-Distance Net- works) [Marina del Rey, CA, Usa]

Optical Switching and Networking, top cited article. Jeroen van der Ham, Freek Dijkstra, Paola Grosso, Ronald van der Pol, Andree Toonk, Cees de Laat, "A distributed topology information system for optical networks based on the semantic web", Elsevier Journal on Optical Switching and Networking, Volume 5, Issues 2-3, June 2008, pp 85-93
Best paper award ABC:MI'10. Zhiming Zhao, Paola Gosso, Ralph Koning, Jeroen van der Ham, Cees de Laat, "An agent based planner for including network QoS in scientific workflows", Int'l workshop on Agent Based Computing: from Model to Implementation VII (ABC:MI'10)
2008 International award for Innovation in Networking' from CENIC - Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California
SLAC research division top performer 2004;
SLAC research division top performer 2003;
Della Riccia Fellowship 2000, awarded to outstanding young Italian Physics researchers to work abroad;
INFN (Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics) Research Fellowship 1996, granted to recently graduated promising Master students.