DANTE General Management

DANTE's General Management is handled by:

• Its two General Managers (Dai Davies and Hans Döbbeling)
• The Secretaries and Administrators (Karin Bane, Janet Lipski and Jean Reynolds)

General Managers

Dai Davies

Dai Davies has been General Manager of DANTE for 14 years. He has degrees in engineering and computer science from Cambridge University, and has considerable experience of the translation between technology and service in a broad range of communications activities.

Dai has worked for various European telecoms operators for over 15 years, both in technical and commercial positions. Before coming to DANTE he was director of the COSINE Project Management Unit.

Hans Döbbeling

Hans Döbbeling joined DANTE as General Manager in August 2004. He studied physics, and obtained his PhD from the University of Heidelberg in 1981. He worked for twelve years as an experimental physicist in medium-energy nuclear physics at MPI für Kernphysik Heidelberg, at CERN in Geneva, at KEK in Tsukuba, and at PSI in Villigen.

In the early nineties, he became an IT services manager. He was head of the Analysis Software Development group at GSI in Darmstadt, and later in charge of the IT services of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg.