Scientific Program Committees

Oscar Tamburis 

SPC Chair 

Researcher in Health Informatics at the National Research Council of Italy, and Lecturer of Processing Information Systems at the University of Naples Federico II.  Author of publications on the following topics: health-related process innovation, BPM, simulation, process mining, sensors implementation, aspects of data analytics, FAIRness, One Digital Health. Co–initiator of the One Digital Health (ODH) framework. External expert for national and international projects. EFMI Board Member as Young EFMI Officer, and Chair of the WG on One Digital Health. 

Arriel Benis 

SPC Co-Chair 

Associate Professor in Biomedical and Health Informatics, Digital Health, and Applied Artificial Intelligence. His research interests include: health informatics and digital health, decision support systems and digital epidemiology, terminologies and ontologies for innovation supprt and education. Co–initiator of the One Digital Health (ODH) framework and of the Medical Informatics and Digital Health Multilingual Ontology MIMO). EFMI Board Member as Executive Officer, and co-chair of the WG on One Digital Health. 

Maria João Feio 

SPC Chair 

Coordinator of the HE project ‘OneAquaHealth’ and of the Freshwater Ecology research group of the University of Coimbra. She is also the coordinator of the Marine Environmental Sciences Centre (MARE) national research centre at the University of Coimbra, and member of the directive committee of the Associate Laboratory Aquatic Research Network and of the board of the Iberian Society of Ecology. She has a PhD in Ecology and is a specialist in freshwater ecosystems. Her research topics include: ecological assessment, ecosystem services, restoration, urban ecosystems, predictive modelling, and One Health. She also coordinates the long-term environmental educational project, CresceRio. 

Frederic Bartumeus 

SPC Co-Chair 

Coordinator of the HE project ‘E4Warning’. ICREA Research Professor in Computational and Theoretical Ecology at the Centre for Advanced Studies of Blanes from CSIC (CEAB-CSIC). He also holds an associate research position at CREAF (UAB, Barcelona). His research lies at the intersection of computational and theoretical ecology, with a particular emphasis on movement and disease ecology. He works across disciplines to connect animal behaviour with spatial population dynamics at unprecedented resolution, addressing questions relevant to invasion biology, disease spreading, and fundamental ecological and behavioural processes. His broader interest is in developing innovative approaches to generate rich ecological datasets enabling the quantification of ecological interactions across spatial and temporal scales, a key step toward improving population dynamics and disease ecology predictions.   

Parisis  Gallos

Assistant Professor of Health Informatics, Departnment of Nursing, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece. His research focuses on biomedical informatics and eHealth systems.  

Elisavet Andrikopoulou

Senior Lecturer of computer science at the University of Portsmouth, UK. Her research is on health informatics. She is the ‘Events, publications and communications’ lead of the BCS Faculty of Health and Care. She also is EFMI Board Member as Publications Officer. 

Marie Anne Eurie Forio 

Scientific researcher affiliated with the Aquatic Ecology Research Group at Ghent University. Her interdisciplinary background lies in environmental modelling, monitoring, and assessment, with a focus on aquatic ecosystems within a sustainable development context.  

John Palmer

Associate professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He is co-director of Mosquito Alert and a member of the Sociodemography Research Group. His research explores human mobility, inequality, and health from the perspectives of sociodemography, ecology, and law  

Lacramioara Stoicu-Tivadar

Professor at the University Politehnica Timisoara (UPT), where she coordinates the Master in Healthcare Informatics and is PhD Coordinator in Computers and Information Technology. She is an EFMI Past President (2018–2020) and serves as Vice President for Europe in the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). Her current research domains include: Virtual Reality in healthcare education and clinical activity, IoT and AI applied in medicine, and active aging. 

Alfred Winter 

Emeritus Professor for Medical Informatics at Leipzig University, Germany. His research focuses on management of health information systems especially in street medicine environments. He chairs the EFMI workingroup Inclusion Health Informatics (IncHI).

Nadia Piscopo 

Holds a master's degree in animal production technologies and a degree in veterinary medicine. She holds as well a PhD in veterinary sciences and is currently a researcher at the University of Naples Federico II. Her research focuses on: biodiversity, farmed and unconventional animals, and agro-zootechnical systems. She has published several scientific studies on wildlife and buffalo farming, focusing her research on animal welfare . 

Cedric Marsboom 

Head of research and CTO at Avia-GIS. He is the current coordinator of VectorNet and WP leader in several Horizon projects. Cedric is specialised in spatial and mathematical modelling of infectious diseases. Cedric is also a scientific collaborator at the Spatial Epidemiology Lab (SpELL) at the ULB  

John Mantas

Professor Emeritus at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, where he served as Director of the Health Informatics Laboratory and Director of Postgraduate Studies. He is an EFMI Honorary Fellow and served as EFMI President (2010–2012). His research interests include: health information systems, patient safety, biomedical informatics, and healthcare management. He also served as an advisor and expert for European Commission panels. 

Patrick Weber 

Honorary Fellow of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) and is currently EFMI Managing Director. He has served in numerous leadership roles within EFMI, including Treasurer, Vice President, President, and Past President, as well as holding various leadership positions within the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). 

Carina Dantas 

Has a degree in Law, she is a PhD candidate on Biomedical Sciences (AI ethics) and is the CEO and Chief Investigator of SHINE 2Europe. She is Co-Director of the SHAFE Foundation  - Smart Healthy Age-friendly Environments, was the Chair of the COST Action NET4Age-Friendly (2020-2024), and Vice-President of the European Covenant on Demographic Change until 2023.

William Wint

 Entomologist and spatial data specialist. He is senior analyst at ERGO Ltd (Environmental Research Group Oxford) and a Senior Research Associate at the Department of Biology, University of Oxford.  William focuses on spatial data management, analysis and distribution modelling, especially for disease vectors, their hosts, and the diseases they carry.  He has also been involved with Bovine TB Analyses in the UK for >30 years, and global livestock distribution modelling for 20 years 

Mauro Giacomini

Professor of Digital Health at the University of Genova (Italy). He is currently president of the Italian Scientific Society of Biomedical Informatics (SIBIM). He also chairs the Translational Health Informatics Working Group of the EFMI. He is currently member of the EFMI Council. 

Christophe Gaudet-Blavignac 

Trained as both a physician and computer scientist, he holds a PhD in Global Health with a focus on medical semantics and interoperability. He is a physician in charge of medical semantics in the Division of Medical Information Sciences (SIMED) at the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG) and serves on the EFMI council as the academic representative of Institutional Members. His research interests include: AI applications in healthcare and clinical data interoperability. 

Sónia RQ Serra

Freshwater ecologist at the University of Coimbra and of the research centre MARE. She has two decades of experience studying river and stream ecological integrity, combining biomonitoring, trait-based frameworks, and R-based statistical analyses across national and European research projects. Her work centres on urban streams, blue-green spaces, and the links between freshwater ecosystems, human health, and citizen engagement — grounded in the conviction that environmental problems are inseparable from human ones.

Antonios Michaelakis 

Entomologist. Since 2007 he works as Research Director in Benaki Phytopathological Institute and currently he is the Head of Laboratory of Insects & Parasites of Medical Importance and served as alternate member of board of directors for Hellenic National Public Health Organization. He has been involved or participated in several research projects (eg LIFE, Horizon Europe, COST Actions, VectorNet, etc). He was the Project Manager for the European projects LIFE CONOPS, PEST PRACTICE, several projects for the mosquito surveillance and management in Greece and leader of the WG2: Conventional & Innovative Control Tools for the AIM COST Action. Finally, he collaborates with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as an export and he acted as Chief Technical Counterpart for the Technical Cooperation Program in Europe for the pilot application of Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) in Aedes albopictus control and currently is coordinated the pilot applications of SIT in Greece.

Emmanouil Alexandros (Max) Fotakis 

Biologist and medical entomologist. He is a research associate at Benaki Phytopathological Institute (Laboratory of Insects & Parasites of Medical Importance) and a research consultant at Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Rome). Max is a fellow of the European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET, ECDC). His research focuses on vector-borne disease epidemiology (descriptive, analytical studies), vector management (insecticide resistance and novel interventions), and strengthening resilience against VBDs (prioritization exercises, benchmarking analyses). His research experience spans field, laboratory, and analytical roles in diverse international settings (Southern Europe, Africa, West Asia).