The following people were registered at the BIH 2013 conference in Rome (3 - 6 September 2013).
Wouter Addink, Naturalis biodiversity center
Mr Bart Aelterman, Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
Donat Agosti, Plazi
Eva Alonso, University of Salento, IT
Salah AlSakiti, Nature reserve Department, Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs
Mrs Elizabeth Arnaud, Bioversity International
Christos Arvanitidis, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
Malcolm Atkinson, NESC & EUBrazilOpenBio SAB
Karl Baadsvik, Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (NBIC)
Thierry Backeljau , Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Dr Rosa M Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Ed Baker, UK Natural History Museum
Antonios Barbas, EC
Luca Bartolozzi, Museo di Storia Naturale - Università di Firenze
Alberto Basset, University of Salento
Dr Jose M. Becerra, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales - CSIC
Livia Bellisari, Comunità Ambiente
Walter Berendsohn, Botanic Garten & Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Freie Universität Berlin, BGBM
Koos Biesmeijer, Naturalis
Jordan Biserkov, Pensoft Publishers
Dr Ignacio Blanquer, Institute of Instrumentation for Molecular Imaging (I3M) - Universitat Politècnica de València
Palma Nicoletta Blonda, CNR-ISSIA
Prof. Klemens Boehm, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Mr Dimitri Brosens, Belgian Biodiversity Platform & Research Institute for Nature and Forest
Dr Richard Michael Bruskiewich , Bioversity International
Mr Thomas Burguiere, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Dr Neil Caithness, University of Oxford
Leonardo Candela, CNR-ISTI
Vanderlei Canhos, CRIA
Caterina Caracciolo, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
Professor Gianluigi Cardinali, University of Perugia
Donatella Castelli, CNR-ISTI
Mr Eric Chenin, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Professor Stavros Christodoulakis, Technical University of Crete
Fabio Cianferoni, Museo di Storia Naturale - Università di Firenze
Raffaele Ciasullo, La Sapienza
Mr Leandro Ciuffo, RNP - Brazil's NREN
Guy Cochrane, MPI
Dr Noel Conruyt, Computer Science and Mathematics Laboratory, LIM, University of Reunion Island
Dr Alastair Culham, i4Life, School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading
Professor Christian Damgaard, Aarhus university
Dr Neil Davies, Director, Gump South Pacific Research Station, UC Berkeley - Moorea
Dr Yde de Jong, ViBRANT - BioVel - PESI - FaEu
Dr Aaike De Wever, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Mr Peter Desmet, Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
Dr Viktoras Didziulis, i4Life, School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading
Bruno Fady, FRB-CESAB
Sarah Faulwetter, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
Professor Dawn Field, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and the University of Oxford
Nicola Fiore, University of Salento, IT
Dr Christina Flann, Wageningen University, Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, Netherlands.
Martin Forsius, Finnish Environment Institute
Bruno Fosso, University of Bari
Jiri Frank, Czech National Museum
Fabrizio Gagliardi, Independent Consultant & EUBrazilOpenBio SAB
Ulf Gärdenfors, Swedish Species Information Centre (ArtDatabanken), University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
Teodor Georgiev, Pensoft Publishers
Mr Falko Glöckler, Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Research
on Evolution and Biodiversity
Ms Carole Goble, The University of Manchester
Mlle Anaïs Grand, UMR7207 Centre de recherche sur la paléobiodiversité et les paléoenvironnements
Professor William Gray, Sp2000
Dr Quentin J. Groom, National Botanic Garden of Belgium
Dr Patrick Grootaert, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Anton Guentsch, Freie Universität Berlin - Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem
Christoph L Haeuser, Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity
Dr Gregor Hagedorn, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Mrs Tarja Hannele Vesalainen, The Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki
Mr Frank Hanssen, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Alex Hardisty, Cardiff University, UK
Mark Harfoot, UNEP-WCMC & Microsoft Research Cambridge
Francisco Hernandez, Flanders Marine Institute
Mr Donald Hobern, Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Dr Paul Jepson, University of Oxford
Anna Maria Johansson, European Commission
Dr Andrew Jones, Cardiff University
Mr Ackbar Joolia, IUCN - Global Species Programme
Karin Karlsson, Swedish Museum of Natural History
Mr Johannes Keizer, Team Leader AIMS
FAO of the United Nations
Ph.D. Oskar Kindvall, Swedish LifeWatch, Swedish Species Information Centre
Dr David King, The Open University
Tomas Kliment, CNR/ISMAR
Brigitta KoenigRies, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Science and University of Jena
Mrs Hanna Koivula, ICT-specialist
Mr Jacco Konijn, University of Amsterdam, LifeWatch, CReATIVE-B, ENVRI
Rebecca Koskela, Executive Director, DataONE, University of New Mexico
Renzo Kottmann, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Dimitris Koureas, Natural History Museum
Alexander Stephan Kroupa, Museum fuer Naturkunde Berlin
Dr Thomas Kunze, i4Life, School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading
Jiri Kvacek, Czech National Museum
Dr Pierre Larmande, Scientist at IRD (France)
Dr Daniele Lezzi, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Laurence Livermore, Natural History Museum
Wouter Los, University of Amsterdam
Professor Keping Ma, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Prof Giorgio Pietro Maggi, INFN & Politecnico di Bari
Dr Ioannis Manakos, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH),
Information Technologies Institute
Dr Nikolaos Manouselis, Agro-Know Technologies
Andrea Manzi, CERN
Dr Arnald Marcer, CREAF, UAB (Barcelona)
Aldo Marchetto , CNR Istituto per lo Studio degli Ecosistemi
Prof. Jesus MARCO DE Marco de Lucas, CSIC, National Research Council SPAIN,
Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria
Dr Stefano Martellos, University of Trieste
Luca Matteis, Bioversity International
Mr Chuck K Miller, Missouri Botanical Garden, Signature Chairman, TDWG
Dr Jeremy Miller, Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Dr Faezah Mohd Salleh, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310, UTM, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia
Miss Nurul Shakina Mohd Talkah, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor, Malaysia
Mr Norman Morrison, The University of Manchester, School of Computer Science
Dr David Morse, The Open University
Silvana Muscella, Trust-IT Services
Ivar Myklebust, Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre
Dr Stefano Nativi, Head of the CNR-IIA Division at the Area di Ricerca di Firenze
Nicky Nicolson, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Pasquale Notarangelo, Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare
Matthias Obst, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Alessandro Oggioni, Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment CNR - IREA
Ph.D. David Oren, Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação
Dr Pasquale Pagano, CNR-ISTI
Dr Larry M. Page, DigBio - Florida Museum of Natural History - University of Florida
Ms Sophie Pamerlon, GBIF France - MNHN
Stephanie Parker, Trust-IT Services
Dr Alan Paton, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Elisabeth Paymal, Foundation for Research on Biodiversity (FRB)
Dr Lyubomir Penev, Institute for biodiversity and ecosystem research & Pensoft Publishers
Johannes Peterseil, Umweltbundesamt GmbH
Dr Lars B. Pettersson, Swedish Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, Biodiversity Unit, Department of Biology, Lund University
JeanLuis Pham, Agropolis Fondation
Cataldo Pierri, University of Bari - CNR IBAF- LIFEWATCH
Ing Massimo Pistolese, IT free lance professional
Sara Pittonet Gaiarin, Trust-IT Services
Antonello Provenzale, ISAC-CNR
Mr Francisco Jose Quevedo Fernandez, Resarch assistant, Cardiff University
Julien Radoux, Université catholique de Louvain
Vinod Rebello, Université catholique de Louvain
Lucy Reeve, Natural History Museum
Greg Riccardi, Florida State University, iDigBio Project
Vincent Robert, CBS-KNAW
Dave Roberts, Natural History Museum, London
Sabine Roscher, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Dr Yury Roskov, i4Life, School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading
Veljo Runnel, University of Tartu Natural History Museum
Simon Rycroft, Natural History Museum, London
Dr Hannu Saarenmaa, Digitarium University of Eastern Finland
Mr Antonio Jose Saenz, Instituto Andaluz de Tecnología
Monica Santamaria, Istituto di Biomembrane e Bioenergetica - CNR
Miss Annapaola Santarsiero, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
Prof. Valerio Sbordoni, University of Roma "Tor Vergata"
Dr Peter Schalk, Species 2000, Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Herbert Schentz, Environment Agency Austria
Ms Katharina Schleidt, Umweltbundesamt Austria
Astrid SchmidtKloiber, University of Natural Resources & Life Sciences (BOKU, Vienna)
Soraya Sierra, Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Dr Cynthia Sims Parr, Encyclopedia of Life, Smithsonian Institution
Mr Jonathan Smith, Vizzuality/CartoDB
Vince Smith, Natural History Museum
Professor Isabel Sousa Pinto, University of Porto, Cimar - Centre for Marine and Environmental Research and Department of Biology, faculty of Sciences
Ivana Spasojevic , IPB - Institute of Physics Belgrade
Oliviero Spinelli, Comunità Ambiente
Mrs STAVROULA SPYROPOULOU, EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENT AGENCY
Dr MarieLucie SUSINI, Development cooperation and biodiversity team, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Franck Theeten, Royal Museum for Central Africa
Erik Torres Serrano, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia
Dr Lennert Tyberghein, Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
Dr Anton Van de Putte, Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences
Dr Isabella Van de Velde, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Peter Van den Besselaar, VU University Amsterdam
Bart Vanhoorne, Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
Ph.D. Saverio Vicario, Istituto di Tecnologie Biomediche - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Stephan Weise, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Germany
Dr Florian Tobias Wetzel, Museum fuer Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity
Professor Katherine Jane Willis, Biodiversity Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
Mr Selwyn Willoughby, SANBI - South African National Biodiversity Institute
Anna Maria Wremp, Swedish Species Information Centre and Swedish LifeWatch
Dr Luciana Zedda, BIO-Diverse Dr. Nicole Nöske, Dr. Luciana Zedda GbR
Francesca Zinetti, Museo di Storia Naturale - Università di Firenze
Wouter Addink, Naturalis biodiversity center
Mr Bart Aelterman, Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
Donat Agosti, Plazi
Eva Alonso, University of Salento, IT
Salah AlSakiti, Nature reserve Department, Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs
Mrs Elizabeth Arnaud, Bioversity International
Christos Arvanitidis, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
Malcolm Atkinson, NESC & EUBrazilOpenBio SAB
Karl Baadsvik, Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (NBIC)
Thierry Backeljau , Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Dr Rosa M Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Ed Baker, UK Natural History Museum
Antonios Barbas, EC
Luca Bartolozzi, Museo di Storia Naturale - Università di Firenze
Alberto Basset, University of Salento
Dr Jose M. Becerra, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales - CSIC
Livia Bellisari, Comunità Ambiente
Walter Berendsohn, Botanic Garten & Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Freie Universität Berlin, BGBM
Koos Biesmeijer, Naturalis
Jordan Biserkov, Pensoft Publishers
Dr Ignacio Blanquer, Institute of Instrumentation for Molecular Imaging (I3M) - Universitat Politècnica de València
Palma Nicoletta Blonda, CNR-ISSIA
Prof. Klemens Boehm, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Mr Dimitri Brosens, Belgian Biodiversity Platform & Research Institute for Nature and Forest
Dr Richard Michael Bruskiewich , Bioversity International
Mr Thomas Burguiere, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Dr Neil Caithness, University of Oxford
Leonardo Candela, CNR-ISTI
Vanderlei Canhos, CRIA
Caterina Caracciolo, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
Professor Gianluigi Cardinali, University of Perugia
Donatella Castelli, CNR-ISTI
Mr Eric Chenin, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Professor Stavros Christodoulakis, Technical University of Crete
Fabio Cianferoni, Museo di Storia Naturale - Università di Firenze
Raffaele Ciasullo, La Sapienza
Mr Leandro Ciuffo, RNP - Brazil's NREN
Guy Cochrane, MPI
Dr Noel Conruyt, Computer Science and Mathematics Laboratory, LIM, University of Reunion Island
Dr Alastair Culham, i4Life, School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading
Professor Christian Damgaard, Aarhus university
Dr Neil Davies, Director, Gump South Pacific Research Station, UC Berkeley - Moorea
Dr Yde de Jong, ViBRANT - BioVel - PESI - FaEu
Dr Aaike De Wever, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Mr Peter Desmet, Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
Dr Viktoras Didziulis, i4Life, School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading
Bruno Fady, FRB-CESAB
Sarah Faulwetter, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
Professor Dawn Field, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and the University of Oxford
Nicola Fiore, University of Salento, IT
Dr Christina Flann, Wageningen University, Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, Netherlands.
Martin Forsius, Finnish Environment Institute
Bruno Fosso, University of Bari
Jiri Frank, Czech National Museum
Fabrizio Gagliardi, Independent Consultant & EUBrazilOpenBio SAB
Ulf Gärdenfors, Swedish Species Information Centre (ArtDatabanken), University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
Teodor Georgiev, Pensoft Publishers
Mr Falko Glöckler, Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Research
on Evolution and Biodiversity
Ms Carole Goble, The University of Manchester
Mlle Anaïs Grand, UMR7207 Centre de recherche sur la paléobiodiversité et les paléoenvironnements
Professor William Gray, Sp2000
Dr Quentin J. Groom, National Botanic Garden of Belgium
Dr Patrick Grootaert, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Anton Guentsch, Freie Universität Berlin - Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem
Christoph L Haeuser, Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity
Dr Gregor Hagedorn, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Mrs Tarja Hannele Vesalainen, The Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki
Mr Frank Hanssen, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Alex Hardisty, Cardiff University, UK
Mark Harfoot, UNEP-WCMC & Microsoft Research Cambridge
Francisco Hernandez, Flanders Marine Institute
Mr Donald Hobern, Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Dr Paul Jepson, University of Oxford
Anna Maria Johansson, European Commission
Dr Andrew Jones, Cardiff University
Mr Ackbar Joolia, IUCN - Global Species Programme
Karin Karlsson, Swedish Museum of Natural History
Mr Johannes Keizer, Team Leader AIMS
FAO of the United Nations
Ph.D. Oskar Kindvall, Swedish LifeWatch, Swedish Species Information Centre
Dr David King, The Open University
Tomas Kliment, CNR/ISMAR
Brigitta KoenigRies, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Science and University of Jena
Mrs Hanna Koivula, ICT-specialist
Mr Jacco Konijn, University of Amsterdam, LifeWatch, CReATIVE-B, ENVRI
Rebecca Koskela, Executive Director, DataONE, University of New Mexico
Renzo Kottmann, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Dimitris Koureas, Natural History Museum
Alexander Stephan Kroupa, Museum fuer Naturkunde Berlin
Dr Thomas Kunze, i4Life, School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading
Jiri Kvacek, Czech National Museum
Dr Pierre Larmande, Scientist at IRD (France)
Dr Daniele Lezzi, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Laurence Livermore, Natural History Museum
Wouter Los, University of Amsterdam
Professor Keping Ma, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Prof Giorgio Pietro Maggi, INFN & Politecnico di Bari
Dr Ioannis Manakos, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH),
Information Technologies Institute
Dr Nikolaos Manouselis, Agro-Know Technologies
Andrea Manzi, CERN
Dr Arnald Marcer, CREAF, UAB (Barcelona)
Aldo Marchetto , CNR Istituto per lo Studio degli Ecosistemi
Prof. Jesus MARCO DE Marco de Lucas, CSIC, National Research Council SPAIN,
Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria
Dr Stefano Martellos, University of Trieste
Luca Matteis, Bioversity International
Mr Chuck K Miller, Missouri Botanical Garden, Signature Chairman, TDWG
Dr Jeremy Miller, Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Dr Faezah Mohd Salleh, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310, UTM, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia
Miss Nurul Shakina Mohd Talkah, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor, Malaysia
Mr Norman Morrison, The University of Manchester, School of Computer Science
Dr David Morse, The Open University
Silvana Muscella, Trust-IT Services
Ivar Myklebust, Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre
Dr Stefano Nativi, Head of the CNR-IIA Division at the Area di Ricerca di Firenze
Nicky Nicolson, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Pasquale Notarangelo, Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare
Matthias Obst, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Alessandro Oggioni, Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment CNR - IREA
Ph.D. David Oren, Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação
Dr Pasquale Pagano, CNR-ISTI
Dr Larry M. Page, DigBio - Florida Museum of Natural History - University of Florida
Ms Sophie Pamerlon, GBIF France - MNHN
Stephanie Parker, Trust-IT Services
Dr Alan Paton, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Elisabeth Paymal, Foundation for Research on Biodiversity (FRB)
Dr Lyubomir Penev, Institute for biodiversity and ecosystem research & Pensoft Publishers
Johannes Peterseil, Umweltbundesamt GmbH
Dr Lars B. Pettersson, Swedish Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, Biodiversity Unit, Department of Biology, Lund University
JeanLuis Pham, Agropolis Fondation
Cataldo Pierri, University of Bari - CNR IBAF- LIFEWATCH
Ing Massimo Pistolese, IT free lance professional
Sara Pittonet Gaiarin, Trust-IT Services
Antonello Provenzale, ISAC-CNR
Mr Francisco Jose Quevedo Fernandez, Resarch assistant, Cardiff University
Julien Radoux, Université catholique de Louvain
Vinod Rebello, Université catholique de Louvain
Lucy Reeve, Natural History Museum
Greg Riccardi, Florida State University, iDigBio Project
Vincent Robert, CBS-KNAW
Dave Roberts, Natural History Museum, London
Sabine Roscher, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Dr Yury Roskov, i4Life, School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading
Veljo Runnel, University of Tartu Natural History Museum
Simon Rycroft, Natural History Museum, London
Dr Hannu Saarenmaa, Digitarium University of Eastern Finland
Mr Antonio Jose Saenz, Instituto Andaluz de Tecnología
Monica Santamaria, Istituto di Biomembrane e Bioenergetica - CNR
Miss Annapaola Santarsiero, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
Prof. Valerio Sbordoni, University of Roma "Tor Vergata"
Dr Peter Schalk, Species 2000, Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Herbert Schentz, Environment Agency Austria
Ms Katharina Schleidt, Umweltbundesamt Austria
Astrid SchmidtKloiber, University of Natural Resources & Life Sciences (BOKU, Vienna)
Soraya Sierra, Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Dr Cynthia Sims Parr, Encyclopedia of Life, Smithsonian Institution
Mr Jonathan Smith, Vizzuality/CartoDB
Vince Smith, Natural History Museum
Professor Isabel Sousa Pinto, University of Porto, Cimar - Centre for Marine and Environmental Research and Department of Biology, faculty of Sciences
Ivana Spasojevic , IPB - Institute of Physics Belgrade
Oliviero Spinelli, Comunità Ambiente
Mrs STAVROULA SPYROPOULOU, EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENT AGENCY
Dr MarieLucie SUSINI, Development cooperation and biodiversity team, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Franck Theeten, Royal Museum for Central Africa
Erik Torres Serrano, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia
Dr Lennert Tyberghein, Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
Dr Anton Van de Putte, Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences
Dr Isabella Van de Velde, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Peter Van den Besselaar, VU University Amsterdam
Bart Vanhoorne, Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
Ph.D. Saverio Vicario, Istituto di Tecnologie Biomediche - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Stephan Weise, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Germany
Dr Florian Tobias Wetzel, Museum fuer Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity
Professor Katherine Jane Willis, Biodiversity Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
Mr Selwyn Willoughby, SANBI - South African National Biodiversity Institute
Anna Maria Wremp, Swedish Species Information Centre and Swedish LifeWatch
Dr Luciana Zedda, BIO-Diverse Dr. Nicole Nöske, Dr. Luciana Zedda GbR
Francesca Zinetti, Museo di Storia Naturale - Università di Firenze