Professional Skills
Dr.
Monique Calisti is an ICT
professional with consolidated experience in leadership responsibilities,
including R&D management, product innovation, consulting, and market
development for innovative software products across several industry segments (business
process management, telecommunications, manufacturing, and logistics). Her major
expertise and skills include:
- Extensive domain knowledge in multi-agent systems, autonomic computing,
Internet technologies, and Telecommunication networks.
- Proven skills in developing and delivering efficient solutions to complex
technical problems and business cases.
- Dynamic, creative and pragmatic approach to team leadership and problem
solving.
- Strong communication and listening skills and sound large-scale international
project management capabilities.
- Authored and edited many professional publications (more than 50 scientific
papers, several books, etc.).
- Multicultural & multitasking: Italian, born in Belgium, transplanted in Switzerland, 3 children, speaking
5 languages and holding 2 Ph.D. degrees.
For more details you can also visit her LinkedIn profile.
Professional Services
As independent freelance, Dr. Monique Calisti offers the following professional services:
- Evaluation of European Commission funded Research and Innovation projects
- Finding and ensuring European grants and funds for Research and Innovation activities
- R&D project proposal writing, funding, management, evaluation and review
- Search and establishment of technical and/or business partnerships
- Organization and advertisement of R&D events, including trade shows, conferences, workshops, courses, etc.
- Exploitation/know-how transfer and dissemination of R&D activities' results
- Technical consulting/training on ICT technologies
- Business development & innovation management support for startups and SMEs
- Advisor for public authorities
- VC gathering
For more information, feel free to contact her at: monique (AT) calisti (DOT) ch
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Dr. Monique Calisti recently joined Martel Consulting as Senior Consultant and Project Manager. Starting from 1st October 2010, she will take responsibility for the Consortium Management activities of two 7th EU FP funded ICT projects, namely FIGARO, Future Internet Gateway-based Architecture of Residential Networks, and SCAMPI, Service platform for social Aware Mobile and Pervasive computing.
Previously, Monique worked for Whitestein Technologies that she joined in 2002 as Vice President of Research and Development. There, she bootstrapped the overall R&D team and activities by securing affiliation and funding for several national and international R&D projects. She has also been directly responsible for the management of these projects, as well as for IPR protection, professional publications, technical support and consulting and public relations.
From 2006 to 2009, as Head of Innovation and Technology Relations, Monique was responsible for strategic planning and development of technological innovations
for several innovative software products across several industry segments (business process management, telecommunications, manufacturing, and logistics)
as well as establishment of high level partnerships across various industry
domains. From January to August 2010,
Monique has been responsible for the assessment of marketing opportunities and target markets and generation of leads for sales as Whitestein's Head of Market Development.
From 1997 to March 2002, she was research scientist at the Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of
Lausanne, EPFL. Her main area of activity covered coordination and negotiation
techniques between distributed (and eventually self-interested) software agents
controlling distinct resources. During her period at EPFL, Monique has attended
the Doctoral School in Telecommunication Systems (1997), she obtained a
postgraduate diploma in multi-agent systems (1999) and she attended the
"CREATE - Course of Entrepreneurship" organized by the Branco Weiss
Chair of Entrepreneurship and Innovation (1999).
From
1996 until 1997, Monique was a research assistant at the Electrical and
Computer Science Department at the University of Bologna (Italy), where she
mainly worked on packet switching in optical networks.
In
the last 15 years, she has been actively involved in several ICT European initiatives (expert
reviewer and evaluator, invited speaker at various scientific and/or
industrial events), she has been serving as Program Committee member of many
international conferences and workshops in the area of artificial intelligence,
software agents, autonomic computing and communication networks, she has given
several tutorials in both academic and industrial fora, and she has worked on
more than 60 publications in various conferences, journals, workshops and
books.
For several years, Dr. Calisti has been member of the Board of Directors for the Autonomic Communication
Forum, ACF, and she has been actively involved in the
activity of the IEEE FIPA standardization body, where she acted as editor of
the FIPA Content Language Library specification, and she has been a member of
the FIPA Board of Directors and the chair of the FIPA Image Committee from 2001
to 2004.
Monique holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from EPFL, and a Ph.D. in
Telecommunications from the University of Bologna, Italy.