Ambassadors (National Contact Points)
| Country | Name | Organization | |
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Albania | Edlira N. Martiri | University of Tirana |
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Austria | Andreas Uhl | University of Salzburg |
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Croatia | Miroslav Bača | University of Zagreb, Faculty of Organization and Informatics |
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Cyprus | Andreas Lanitis | Cyprus University of Technology |
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Czech Republic | Martin Drahanský | Touchless Biometric Systems |
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Denmark | Jakob Glynstrup | Danish National ID Centre (NIDC) |
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Germany | Christoph Busch | TTT Biometrics Working Group |
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Hungary | Csaba Benedek | Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA SZTAKI) |
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Italy | Alessandro Alessandoni | Digit PA |
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Lithuania | Evaldas Borcovas | Neurotechnology |
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Luxembourg | Andreas Braun | PricewaterhouseCoopers |
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Netherlands | Luuk Spreeuwers | University of Twente |
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Norway | Magnar Aukrust | Norwegian Biometrics Forum |
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Poland | Wojciech Wodo | Wroclaw University of Science and Technology |
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Slovakia | Matus Kapusta | Innovatrics |
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Slovenia | Vitomir Štruc | University of Ljubljana |
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Spain | Raul Sanchez-Reillo | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
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Sweden | Fernando Alonso-Fernandez | Halmstad University |
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Switzerland | Sebastien Marcel | IDIAP |
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United Kingdom | Richard Guest | University of Southampton |
Requirements and Duties for Ambassadors
A person interested in becoming an Ambassador has to have substantial experience in the field of biometrics.
The person will have to become an EAB member and then needs to inform the EAB secretariat that he/she wants to serve as Ambassador. If he/she is the first person requesting to become a national contact point and if his/her qualification is deemed sufficient by EAB through its Supervisory Board then he/she will be appointed by EAB through its Supervisory Board. If there are multiple candidates, then the most suitable person will be selected in an EAB board meeting.
- An Ambassador has the following duties:
- The main duty of the Ambassador is to support EAB, inform interested local biometric people about EAB activities and to report (via the EAB newsletter) about the activities/projects in the local country.
