Valeria Ardizzone isAAI Solution Architect at EGI Foundation. She has expertise in many domains, moving from the Authentication and Authorization Federated infrastructure to the Operations in Distributed Computing, passing on IT Service Management, the integration of scientific research applications, user community training and project management. Before EGI, Valeria worked in GARR as a permanent staff of Compute and Storage Department, in the context of the GEANT4_2 project and as DECIDE project’s Technical Coordinator. Before GARR, Valeria worked for the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) division of Catania, where she was involved in several pillar e-Infrastructure projects co-funded by the European Commission and as National Coordinator of training activity spread over the INFN Committee for Computing and Network. Valeria holds a MSc in Computer Science from the University of Catania (Italy).