Mr. Yannis Ioannidis is the President and Director of the “Athena” Research and Innovation Center and a Professor at the Dept. of Informatics and Telecom of the Univ. of Athens. He has been the coordinator and legal entity head of OpenAIRE and a key partner in the Human Brain Project. Mr. Ioannidis is a vice chair, an Executive Board member and the Greek delegate of ESFRI.