Licia Florio (Project Development Officer)

Licia Florio joined TERENA in October 2001 as one of the Project Development Officers to support TERENA's Task Forces and contribute to technical projects. She is currently responsible for the middleware area within TERENA.

Licia is the secretary for TF-Mobility, which focuses on testing and development of mobile technologies as well as the deployment of eduroam (one of the major results of the Task Force). She is also the secretary of TF-EMC2, the task force which focuses on the middleware developments in Europe. TF-EMC2 embraces projects like TACAR (the repository for roots Certification Authorities), SCHAC (the SChema Harmonisation Committee) and the Server Certificate Service (SCS) project, which provides low cost server certificates pop-up free for the NRENs involved. The latest new activity of TF-EMC2 is REFEDS to define procedures and guidelines to allow for peering of federations.

Licia also organises EuroCAMP (European Campus Architecture Middleware Planning), which aims to promote the use of middleware technologies on campuses. She is the TERENA liaison person for Grid activities and as such, represents TACAR/TERENA in the EuGridPMA.

Since 2005, Licia is also the secretary of the GLIF ControlPlane Working Group, which aims to agree on mechanisms and protocols to dynamically provisioning lightpath connections.

Licia, born in 1972, graduated in Computer Science at the University of Bologna and before joining TERENA, worked at an Italian IT company as analyst-programmer to develop Java-based secure web-applications. In her spare time she enjoys playing tennis and shoe shopping.