Ingo Frommholz is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Bedfordshire. He received his PhD from the University of Duisburg-Essen in October 2008. Prior to joining the University of Bedfordshire in 2011 he worked at Fraunhofer IPSI in Darmstadt, Germany, at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany and at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.
Frank Hopfgartner is a Senior Lecturer in Data Science at the Information School, University of Sheffield and Head of the Information Retrieval Research Group. He is a member of the editorial board of the Information Processing & Management Journal.
Udo Kruschwitz is Professor of Information Science at University of Regensburg and a Visiting Professor Visiting Professor at the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering. He is the co-author of Searching the Enterprise with Charlie Hull and is an Advisor to Signal AI.
Andy Macfarlane is Reader in Information Retrieval in School of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Computer Science at City University of London. His research interests currently focus on a number of areas including disabilities and information retrieval (dyslexia in particular).
Joao Magalheis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He acted as the Chair of the ECIR 2020 Conference Committee.
Stephanie Segura Rodas is an information security manager based in Lima, Peru. She studied for an MBA at the University of Sheffield in 2019, writing a dissertation on how multinational companies manage language diversity and the impacts on enterprise search implementation.
Martin White is Managing Director of Intranet Focus Ltd and a Visiting Professor at the Information School, University of Sheffield. He is the author of Enterprise Search (O’Reilly Media) and is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Information Management.