Dimitris Koureas
Managing Director For Digital Strategy & Innovation Chief Information Officer
Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolDimitris Koureas is a strategic technology and research infrastructure leader with 11 years of experience delivering large, multi-partner digital transformation programmes for museums and collection-holding research centres. As Managing Director for Digital Strategy & Innovation and CIO at Naturalis and Executive Director of the pan-European DiSSCo research infrastructure, he blends policy-savvy stakeholder management with hands-on delivery of multi-million euro initiatives across governments, funders, universities and industry. He has a strong academic grounding (PhD) and an MBA, and has lectured at Oxford while leading standardisation efforts as former TDWG President. Known for translating complex scientific collections needs into interoperable digital services, he builds partnerships that unlock research data at continental scale. Colleagues value his rare mix of museum domain expertise, programme rigour and comfort operating at both technical and executive levels. Based in Leiden, he continually bridges research, technology and policy to make biodiversity data findable, accessible and reusable.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, PhD at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
English, German, Greek
Github Skills (10)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tdwg/website
Mar 2018 - Sep 2018
TDWG website
Contributions:3 commits, 3 PRs, 3 branches in 5 months
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