Slinger Jansen is an associate professor at the Department of Information and Computer Science at Utrecht University. He is one of the leading researchers in the domain of software ecosystems and co-founders of the International Conference on Software Business and International Workshop on Software Ecosystems. He is lead editor of the book “Software Ecosystems: Analyzing and Managing Business Networks in the Software Industry” and of several others. Besides his academic endeavors he actively supports new enterprises and sits on the boards of advisors of several start-ups.

Kate Labunets is an Assistant Professor in Cyber Security at the Department of Information and Computer Science at Utrecht University. Before joining Utrecht University, she was a Cyber Security postdoc for the VSNU Digital Society track on Safety and Security and H2020 CYBECO projects at the Delft University of Technology. During her PhD, she studied the effectiveness of existing security methods and whether current security methods are worthy of being adopted. The main goal behind these studies was to help practitioners save time and money in selecting the most appropriate security method among dozens of existing approaches. Her research focuses on cyber risk management, security behaviour, human aspects, and empirical methods. She combines quantitative and qualitative research methods to empirically explore problems in the intersection of cyber security and human factors fields.

Dr. Nishant Saurabh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Previously, he worked as a Postdoc Researcher in the Distributed & Parallel Systems (DPS) Group at the Institute for Informatics, Universität Klagenfurt (AAU), Austria. His research interests span the concepts of resource and data management, application scheduling and placement, performance modeling, optimization, and observability in large-scale distributed systems (e.g. Cloud and Edge). Recently, he also developed an interest in distributed ML (e.g. federated learning) scheduling and applications of learning paradigm (e.g. causal performance attribution, performance diagnosis, prognosis, and prediction) across the Cloud-Edge Continuum. In the past, he was associated with multiple EU H2020 projects in various roles (i.e. Scientific Coordinator, WP Leader, Researcher). Currently, he also serves as an Associate Editor for Springer’s Journal of Cloud Computing, and a program committee member at various conferences and workshops.

Siamak Farshidi is an assistant professor at the Department of Information and Computer Science at Utrecht University. From 2020 to 2022, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at University of Amsterdam on cross-domain search engines in the context of the ENVRI-FAIR project to advance the findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability (FAIRness) of the data and services offered by the ENVRI Cluster research infrastructures. During his Ph.D., Siamak carried out research on multi-criteria decision-making problems in software production, such as blockchain platform selection. Currently, his research focuses on recommender systems, search engines, and decision-making in ICT.

Fang Hou graduated with a bachelor’s in computer science and technology and a master’s in business information systems. She has experience in system testing and business integration at Citibank and UBS. Now she is working on the trust data analysis on the TrustSECO project.

Elena Baninemeh is a research assistant and senior developer. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees in computer software engineering. Her master's degree was entitled "ETL process optimization in business intelligence". Elena is currently working on decentralized autonomous organization selection to build a decision model for this decision-making problem.

Casper van Schothorst has always been intrigued by positive collaboration, so he spent 25 years specializing in business partnerships & channel organizations resulting in an in-depth understanding how to build & manage a partner channel, continuously grow partner contribution, increase the opportunity for & with partners, in effective partnership with developers, technical sales, account management and marketing. Trust between the different stakeholders in a software ecosystem like software vendors, IT partners and customers, has always been a key differentiator in the success, or failure, of the collaboration so always have been an important focus area in the work of Casper. The evolution of software propositions from on-prem to cloud-based solutions opens a new spectrum of possibilities to provide trust to the ecosystem and Casper will research the different innovative options with a focus on the business side of the ecosystem.

Paul van Vulpen is a researcher of the SecureSECO project. He received a BSc in Innovation Management and an MSc in Business Informatics. His research interests include software collaboration, software ecosystems and decentralized collaboration. He is currently engaged in understanding the governance mechanisms of DAOs. Next to a researcher, Paul is a product manager blockchain governance at Centric

Deekshitha is a researcher and a software developer. She received her Master of Philosophy and Master of science in computer science, specializing in Artificial Intelligence. She has experience in front-end and back-end development. She worked on Natural Language Processing and Machine learning Projects during her studies. An enthusiastic researcher who loves to teach Programming Languages. She will work on SecureSECO projects.

Hi, my name is Chris, a part time developer, MBI Student and Entrepreneur. I love to face new challenges which is why I joined the searchSeco team to research algorithms in searching and ranking code results. Hoping to make the world of software development a better place

Krishna Kaipa is a Bachelor's student at the Indian Institute of Information Technology and a software developer. As part of the GreenSECO project, he is working on a paper to understand and engineer methods for developers to find and fix energy inefficiency in software.

Floris Jansen is a research assistant at Utrecht University. He is working on the TrustSECO project concerning how software developers trust certain packages.

Roy Schenk is an Information science bachelor student at Utrecht University. He is currently exploring the world of quantum computing and quantum software ecosystem to create requirements for a quantum software ecosystem health dashboard for his bachelor thesis.

Gal Mrvar graduated with a bachelor's in computer and information science and is currently an MBI student and researcher at SecureSECO. He has an experience in software development and is currently working on a software cost estimation decision model using big data.