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Khalid Belhajjame (he/him) is an associate professor with habilitation to direct research at the University Paris-Dauphine, a member of the LAMSADE research laboratory. Before moving to Paris, he was a research fellow for several years at the University of Manchester and a PhD student at the University of Grenoble. His research focuses on information and knowledge management. In particular, he has made significant contributions to data preparation, data privacy and protection, eScience, scientific workflow management, provenance tracking and exploitation, and knowledge graphs. He has published over 70 papers on the above topics. Most of his research proposals have been validated by real-world applications in the life sciences. He has participated in numerous European, French and UK-funded projects. He has been an active member of the W3C Provenance working group, the NSF-funded DataONE Working Group on Science Workflows and Provenance. Since 2018, he has been a member of the steering committee of the GDR MaDICS, a national research network for interdisciplinary data science research, and since January 2022, co-leader of the Database Working Group for Remote Sensing Data in the Earth Science Informatics (IEEE GRSS).

Martin A. Musicante (he/him) is a professor at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte-UFRN (Natal, Brazil). He is part of the graduate program in Computer Science at UFRN. Martin was an associate researcher at LI – Université François Rabelais Tours (level 3), (2002-2013) and at LIFO – Université d’Orléans, France, since 2008. Martin A. Musicante’s current research topics are Graph Query Languages theory and Web Services.

Genoveva Vargas-Solar (he/him) is a Principal Scientist (CRHC) of the CNRS at the Database Group at the LIRIS lab. She is the principal investigator (PI) leading the project. She has more than 12 years of experience leading scientific international cooperation between France and countries in different regions, including Latin America, Asia and Europe. She has established long and successful cooperation with UFRN, UFPR and UdelaR through projects funded by Microsoft, the CNRS STICAMSUD and IEA programs and CAPES. From a scientific point of view, she works on data management problems like data curation and data processing at scale on different platforms. She has experience working in large-scale data processing for addressing multidisciplinary projects, notably through solid cooperation with the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre.