Statutory Seat

The Statutory Seat and ICT e-Infrastructure Offices of LifeWatch ERIC are located in Seville, Region of Andalusia, Kingdom of Spain.

The Statutory Seat and the ICT e-Infrastructure Technical Offices jointly assist the functioning of the infrastructure, the former being the coordinator of all legal, administrative and institutional activities, and the latter responsible for managing the distributed ICT e-Infrastructure operations and implementation.

Activities

The Statutory Seat and the ICT e-Infrastructure Technical Office are responsible for the coordination and management of the day-to-day institutional relationships, administrative, legal, and financial issues, technology transfer and distributed ICT infrastructure operations.

Specifically, they coordinate procurement and IPR matters, formal agreements with external data and e-Services suppliers, and Service Legal Agreements (SLA) with local, regional, national and international entities, including decision-makers and environmental managers.

In addition, they coordinate and manage the construction, maintenance and deployment of the distributed ICT e-Infrastructure, including coordination of the design and implementation of the e-Services required by the Service Centre and the Virtual Laboratories and Innovations Centre, as well as the other Distributed Facilities.

Contact details

Statutory Seat

Chief Executive Officer
Christos Arvanitidis

Email
ceo[at]lifewatch.eu

ICT e-Infrastructure Technical Office

Chief Technology Officer
Juan Miguel González-Aranda

Email
cto[at]lifewatch.eu

Postal address
Plaza España SN, SECTOR II-III
41071 Seville (Spain)

Inmaculada Figueroa's Bio

Inmaculada is an electrical engineer with more than 17 years’ experience in the Space domain (Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial), being responsible for the Assembly and integration of scientific satellite payloads. 

Since 2009, she has been working in the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain and its predecessors in the field of Research Infrastructures and e-Infrastructures. Currently, she is the Deputy Vice Director General for Internationalization of Science & Innovation in the Spanish Ministry of Science & Innovation and ESFRI Vice Chair.