Dr. Monique Calisti

Dr. Monique Calisti is Partner and Director at Martel GmbH and she is directly involved in the management and dissemination activities of several ongoing EC funded projects, including SCAMPI, FIGARO, INFINITY, XIFI, FUSION and LEONE. From 2002 until 2010 she worked for Whitestein Technologies as VP R&D being responsible for participation and technical contribution to several research projects and other activities, such as business development, consulting, scientific editing and publishing. In the last 15 years, she has been involved in several EC projects (securing project affiliation, funding, management and technical contribution) and initiatives (as expert reviewer, evaluator and invited speaker), she has been serving as a PC member of many international scientific events in the area of artificial intelligence, software agents, autonomic computing and communication, she has given several tutorials in both academic and industrial fora, and she has worked on more than 50 publications in various conferences, journals, workshops and books. Dr. Calisti was a member of the Board of Directors for the Autonomic Communication Forum, ACF, and for several years, she has also been actively involved in the activity of the IEEE FIPA standardization body, where she has been member of the Board of Directors from 2001 to 2004. Monique holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from EPFL, and a Ph.D. in Telecommunications from the University of Bologna, Italy.