As Director at the EGI Foundation, Tiziana Ferrari is responsible for the EGI Federation, the European distributed infrastructure for data-intensive scientific computing comprising hundreds of research data centres across the globe and delivering bespoke solutions for data-intensive science. As an open initiative, EGI is contributing to the implementation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) by operating the EOSC distibuted compute platform and federating services.

Her role as EGI Foundation Director is to provide strategic leadership and drive the Participants to achieve their goals, by helping the EGI Federation setting its vision and strategies for scientific computing.

Network engineer by training, Tiziana holds a PhD in Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications from the University of Bologna, Italy.