Leonie Schäfer

Senior Manager Global Liaison, DFN, Germany

 

Léonie Schäfer is Senior Manager Global Liaison at the German National Research and Education Network (DFN).  At DFN, she is responsible for coordinating the DFN contribution to international projects and joint developments. 

Prior to joining DFN, Léonie spent several years in Science where she conducted own research and later was responsible for managing EU research projects. She served as Scientific Officer at the EU Commission, DG Information Society & Media, seconded as National Expert by the Fraunhofer Society. In the unit 'Future & Emerging Technologies' she dealt with innovation policies, new research trends and emerging research communities in respect to ICT-related technologies.

Léonie was co-organiser of several workshops at international conferences and member of a number of conference and program committees. Léonie graduated and received her PhD in Computer Science from the Technical University of Berlin.