SOBIGDATA | Gateway
A multi-disciplinary research infrastructure aimed at using social mining and big data to understand the complexity of our contemporary, globally interconnected society
What is SoBigData?
SoBigData RI is built on a common “digital laboratory” of agreed services and tools. All RI services converge towards this unified vision, featuring a central entry point where users can navigate the catalogue and access the RI gateway. This gateway provides researchers and practitioners a collaborative environment, promoting responsible open science practices.
Key Personnel Staff
The effective operation and strategic direction of the SoBigData e-infrastructure are guided by a dedicated team:
Pasquale Pagano - Infrastructure Manager: Pasquale leads and directs the e-infrastructure, ensuring its effective operation and alignment with its mission and vision. He is responsible for strategic decision-making, overseeing the performance of all divisions, and managing talent acquisition and recruitment processes. He also drives the research and innovation agenda for the e-infrastructure, fostering advancements and ensuring the continuous evolution of its capabilities.
Massimiliano Assante - Head of the Management Division: Massimiliano ensures the effective operational management and strategic execution of SoBigData's infrastructure activities. This includes overseeing all aspects of service delivery, day-to-day operations, research, development, testing, and release activities related to the services offered by the infrastructure, ensuring alignment with SoBigData's mission and vision. He is responsible for the performance of the division and for ensuring the efficient and effective delivery of services to users.
Andrea Dell'Amico - Head of the Security Division: Andrea is responsible for the infrastructure’s hardware, connectivity, and security. His focus is on planning, procuring, and maintaining computing resources and networks, ensuring availability, capacity, and performance to meet the needs of SoBigData services and users.
Luca Frosini - Head of the Service Division: Luca is responsible for the design, development, integration, and management of SoBigData services and products. He focuses on the enabling technology and information systems that power the infrastructure, driving innovation in data management solutions and related offerings, ensuring their functionality, usability, and alignment with infrastructure objectives, and overseeing the underlying technology architecture and its evolution.