Meet Our Team
Consortium members
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Prof. Dr. Dirk Lanzerath
Coordinator, Contributor to all work packages; Social Lab leader
Professor of Philosophy, Director of German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences, University of Bonn
Dirk Lanzerath is philosopher and biologist; Secretary General of the European Network of Research Ethics Committees (EUREC); Member of the Board of the Central Ethics Committee of the German Medical Association; Member of the Ethics Committee of the North Rhine Medical Association; Member of the Ethics Committee of Maastricht University; Member of the Committee for Safety-Related Research at the University of Bonn; Member of the Editorial Board of the journal "Research Ethics Review"; Co-Editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics; Visiting Professor of Ethics in the Study Abroad Programme at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, Ca. (USA); and specialist in medical ethics, research ethics, and environmental ethics. -
Fabian Fischbach
Member of Management and Coordination Team (WP6), Contributor to all work packages; Social Lab leader
Research Associate and PhD Student, German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences, University of Bonn
Fabian Fischbach is a PhD student and research associate in philosophy with a focus on applied ethics and ethical theory. His research interests include environmental and climate ethics, with a focus on non-anthropocentric values, as well as technology ethics, with a special interest in power relations embedded in artificial intelligence. -
Jan Mehlich
Member of Management and Coordination Team (WP6), Contributor to all work packages; Social Lab leader
Senior Research Fellow, Center for Life Ethics, University of Bonn
Jan Mehlich combines his educational background in chemistry and applied ethics in his research on science, technology, and innovation ethics. With experience in accompanying research on nanomedicine, green chemistry, and digital technologies, at his current position as Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Life Ethics at the University of Bonn, his academic focus is on the role of various actors in normative innovation discourses, strategies of empowering these actors to participate skillfully in those discourses, and options for integrating environmental and ecological–ethical knowledge into the research and innovation process. -
Lisa Tambornino
Contributor to all work packages
Senior Research Manager, EUREC
Lisa Tambornino is a Senior Research Manager at EUREC. With a PhD in philosophy and a background in psychology and law, she brings a deep understanding of ethical principles to her work, particularly in the field of biomedical ethics. During her time at EUREC, Lisa has been instrumental in several EU projects focusing on research ethics and integrity. -
Carly Seedall
Contributor to all work packages
Research Associate
Carly Seedall is a social scientist with a background in international relations, evaluation, and Eurasian studies. She brings experience from several EU-funded projects, including PREPARED and TechEthos. Carly's research interests include cross-national research ethics and integrity and research policy. -
Mathieu Rochambeau
Manager of the Stakeholder Advisory Board
Scientific Project Manager, EUREC – European Network of Research Ethics Committees
Mathieu Rochambeau is a Scientific Project Manager at EUREC where he contributed to multiple EU research projects. His academic background includes a Master in Political Science from the Charles University in Prague, as well as two Bachelors, in History and Sociology, from the Strasbourg University. Mathieu has experience in international relations, gender equality as well as international energy and climate. -
Anaïs Rességuier
WP3 Leader; Contributor to all work packages
Research Manager
Anaïs is Research Manager in the Ethics, Human Rights and Emerging Technologies cluster at Trilateral Research. She focuses on technology governance and ethics, especially AI ethics, as part of EU-funded research projects (such as SIENNA, TechEthos, and irecs). She analyses ethical issues related to AI and contributes to developing practical ethics guidelines to promote the responsible design and deployment of technology. She holds a PhD in Political Theory from Sciences Po Paris and publishes on different topics related to the ethics of AI and the governance of technology more generally. -
Dominic Lenzi
WP1 Leader; Contributor to all work packages
Assistant Professor in Environmental Ethics, University of Twente
Dominic Lenzi is an environmental philosopher whose research focuses on ethics and political philosophy in the Anthropocene, especially related to climate justice and environmental values and valuation. -
Michel Bourban
WP1 Leader; Contributor to all work packages
Assistant Professor in Environmental Ethics, University of Twente
Assistant Professor in Environmental Ethics, University of Twente
Michel Bourban works in moral, political, and legal philosophy. He carries out research in fields such as environmental ethics, environmental politics, climate justice, animal ethics, and responsible innovation. -
Dr. Michael J. Bernstein
WP2 Leader
Senior Scientst, Center for Innovation Systems and Policy, Austrian Institute of Technology
Michael is a senior scientist at the Austrian Institute of Technology, where he leads the strategic foresight team Societal Futures at the Center for Innovation Systems and Policy. He applies descriptive and participatory social science research methods to align innovation with long-term societal interests. In the RE4GREEN project, he leads WP2 on the Social Labs. In addition, he leads the formative evaluation component of the CCEIL AZ, on a consent-based siting approach to high-level nuclear waste management in the US. He has worked extensively on supporting researchers and R&I policy-makers to anticipate, reflect on, and respond to social and ethical challenges with technology development (e.g., TechEthos and NewHoRRIzon projects). His previous work includes developing foresight and strategic planning tools to support business innovation for social value (The Global KAITEKI Center, Arizona State University); staffing a participatory Technology Assessment (pTA) to inform US Department of Energy decision-making about siting nuclear waste (ECAST); and evaluating science policy STEM education programs (SOtL). He has experience contributing to policy and evaluation initiatives on climate preparedness, resilience, and adaptation for the US White House Council on Environmental Quality and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. -
Alexandra Csábi
WP2 Lead support
Junior Expert Advisor, Center for Innovation Systems and Policy, Austrian Institute of Technology
Alexandra is a Junior Expert Advisor at the Center for Innovation Systems & Policy at the Austrian Institute of Technology. She studied Molecular Bionics Engineering in Hungary and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society in the Netherlands. She also worked as a teaching assistant in ethics and philosophy education for engineering students at the University of Twente. She is currently focusing her effort on the RE4GREEN EU-funded project and more concretely on the Social Lab methodology. Earlier, she worked on the ethics of emerging technologies in the TechEthos project and was involved in the interim evaluation of Horizon Europe’s digital transitions initiatives. Alexandra combines her knowledge in philosophy of technology, science and technology studies, and medical biotechnologies. -
Prof. Mads P. Sørensen
Contributor to WP1, WP2, WP3, WP5, and WP6; Social Lab leader
Professor, Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy (CFA), Aarhus University
Mads holds a PhD in History of Ideas. His current research focuses on research on research (meta-research), including research integrity, questionable research practices (QRPs), and research ethics, as well as social theory, including risk and uncertainty. He has led and/or participated in multiple national, Nordic, and EU-funded research and development projects. The latest examples include EU-funded projects on research integrity (SOPs4RI) and research ethics (HYBRIDA). He often works with policy development and stakeholder engagement activities in these projects (expert workshops, deliberative workshops, focus group interviews, etc.). -
Prof. Carter Bloch
Contributor to WP1, WP2, WP3, WP5, and WP6; Social Lab leader
Professor and Center Director, Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy (CFA), Aarhus University
Carter holds a PhD in Economics from Aarhus University in Denmark. He has been employed at the Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy (CFA) since 2003 and has been Centre Director since 2018. His research covers a variety of issues related to innovation and research policy, including the relation between innovation and firm productivity, public sector innovation, research evaluation, research funding policy, and responsible research and innovation. -
Dr. Rachel Fishberg
Contributor to WP1, WP2, WP3, WP5, and WP6; Social Lab leader
Postdoctoral Researcher, Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy (CFA), Aarhus University
Rachel holds a PhD in the sociology of science, with a focus on science and technology studies (STS) and feminist perspectives. Her research centres on understanding how research policies work on different levels — globally, nationally, and within institutions — and how these policies shape the production of knowledge and collaborative research within the changing academic vocation. Recently, her work has focused on research integrity policies and training across Europe and within European universities. Her primary interests lie in the politics of global knowledge production, research funding, governance within higher education and universities, transnational and interdisciplinary collaborations, and policies concerning research integrity. -
Vana Stavridi
WP5 Leader; Contributor to WP2, WP3, WP4, and WP6
Junior researcher, School of Chemical Engineering of National Technical University of Athens
A philosopher by degree, with an MA in Philosophy focused on Science and Society. Her main research interests are in epistemology and ethics, methodology of social sciences, social determination of knowledge and the problem of analysing social relations in a philosophically informed way. She has participation in national and international conferences and she was member of ‘’Laboratory of Philosophical Research and Translation’’. She has translated into Greek, written in English papers in a collective volume on Critical Pedagogy. -
Dimitris Koulos
WP5 Leader; Contributor to WP2, WP3, WP4, and WP6
Junior Researcher, School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens
Dimitris Koulos is a PhD student. In his thesis, he examines the evolving relationship between labour, technology, and subjectivity. His work investigates the increasing prominence of scientific and creative labour, while also exploring different forms of labour organisation. A key aspect of his research is the ethical dimension of new knowledge production and its integrity within contemporary socio-economic contexts -
Lorenzo Molina
WP2, WP3, WP5 and WP6 member
EU Projects Officer & Research Analyst
Lorenzo Molina is an EU Projects Officer and Research Analyst at EARMA (the European Association of Research Managers and Administrators). He is involved in the design and implementation of initiatives and programmes focused on the professional development and recognition of research managers. He also plays an active role in the management and coordination of EU-funded projects in the areasof research management, ethics, research integrity, open science and sustainability, including RM Roadmap, RM Framework, iRECs, PATTERN and RE4GREEN. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in International and Diplomatic Affairs and a Master's Degree in International Economics. -
Teodora Konach
WP2, WP3, WP5 and WP6 member
Head of Professional Development
Teodora Konach is the Head of Professional Development at EARMA (the European Association of Research Managers and Administrators), where she leads the team responsible for professional development, recognition initiatives, and EU-funded programmes. She has an academic background in legal and cultural studies. Since 2019, Teodora has collaborated as an external expert and evaluator with the European Commission’s Research Executive Agency (REA), the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), and the Council of Europe. She has been actively involved in several EU-funded projects related to research ethics and integrity, open science, and training, including SOPs4RI, ROSiE, IRECS, RE4GREEN, and PATTERN. Currently, she is co-leading the EARMA-coordinated EU-funded projects RM Roadmap and RM Framework, which aim to advance a structured, community-driven approach to professionalising research management across Europe. -
Janina Bau
WP2, WP3, WP5 and WP6 member
EU Projects Officer& Research Analyst
Janina Bau is an EU Projects Officer& Research Analyst at theEuropean Association of Research Managers and Administrators (EARMA),with a background in social studies and linguistics. At EARMA, she is involved in the coordination and management of several EU-funded projects related to research management, ethics, research integrity, open science and sustainability, including RM Roadmap, RM Framework,iRECs, PATTERN and RE4GREEN. She studied European Studies with a major in English and Sociology in Germany and Sweden, Political Science in Belgium, and Cultural Studies in the U.S. -
Dr. François Jost
Contributor to WP1, WP2, WP3, WP4, WP5, and WP6; Social Lab leader
Project Officer, European Citizen Science Association (ECSA), Berlin, Germany
François holds a PhD in in Environmental Sciences (focus on climate change adaptation and mitigation) at the Faculty of Environmental Sciences at the TU Dresden. For more than 13 years François has been involved in research in the field of environmental science with a focus on urban and rural climate action and sustainability issues. In the past, François has gathered experience in citizen science and stakeholder engagement activities, conducting participatory action research, expert workshops, focus groups, interviews, participatory rural appraisals, among others. His current work as project officer in EU-funded projects are focused on assessing best-practices and innovative approaches to engage citizens and communities in climate adaptation (AGORA) and on open science (and citizen science) research integrity and research ethics (ROSiE). François Jost also delivers courses on research design, citizen science, landscape rehabilitation and adaptation for postgraduate students in Environmental Management (CIPSEM) in the TU Dresden. -
Prof. Dr. Asia Khamzina
Contributor to WP1, WP2, WP4, WP5, WP6
Professor, Korea University
Asia Khamzina is Professor (Agroforestry Systems and Ecology) at Korea University in the Division of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, College of Life Sciences and Biotechnology. She holds a PhD in Agricultural Sciences from the University of Bonn (Germany) and an Engineering degree from the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers (Uzbekistan). Her research focus is on ecological processes and sustainable management of complex forest and agro-forest ecosystems in conjunction with experimental field trials, landscape surveys, and modelling analyses. -
Dr. Florent Noulèkoun
Contributor to WP1, WP2, WP4, WP5, WP6
Research Professor, Korea University
Florent Noulèkoun is a research professor (Agroforestry Systems and Ecology) at the Division of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, College of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Korea University. He holds a PhD in Agricultural Sciences from Bonn University, Germany, with a specialization in Ecology and Natural Resources Management. He strives through his research works to improve understanding of ecological processes shaping the functioning of various agroecosystems to identify critical leverage aspects for their sustainable management under changing global environmental conditions. In this endeavour, he bridges ideas and theories from applied sciences and combined them with integrated modelling approaches to advance scientific knowledge and propose novel and actionable options for the management of natural resources. -
José Luis Molina
Contributor to WP1, WP2, WP3, WP5, and WP6; Social Lab leader
Full Professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
José Luis Molina is full professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain, and coordinator of the research group GRAFO (www.grafo.cat). He is an Economic Anthropologist interested in the emergence of socioeconomic structures, like migrant enclaves and transnational fields. Molina is interested in mixed-method approaches, combining ethnography and personal network analysis. He is conducting research in several countries in the Global South. Currently, he is the president of the Research Ethics Committee of the UAB. -
Karla Nahuelpan Sánchez
Contributor to WP1, WP2, WP3, WP5, and WP6; Social Lab leader
PhD student, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Karla Nahuelpan Sánchez is a PhD candidate in anthropology with a predoctoral grant from ANID (Chile) who investigates the political transnationalism of organisations for indigenous activism in the Americas. Karla investigates how these organisations coordinate across borders and nationalities, how the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted their functioning, and how social media played a role both during and after the pandemic. She is also interested in indigenous activism, focusing on social and climate justice and ethics in indigenous research. Karla also coordinates the cycle of seminars for the GRAFO research group and is a member of the editorial board of the journal Perifèria. -
Rachel Wynberg
Contributor to WP1, WP2, WP5, and WP6; Social Lab leader
Professor and Bio-economy Research Chair, University of Cape Town
Rachel Wynberg is a Professor in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa, where she holds a government-funded Research Chair focused on Environmental and Social Dimensions of the Bio-economy. With a background in both the natural and social sciences, her interdisciplinary research spans topics relating to bio-politics and the biodiversity-based economy; seeds, farmers’ rights and agrobiodiversity; knowledge politics, agroecology, and food sovereignty; the governance of wild species; just and biodiverse bio-economies; emerging technologies; and equity in science. Her publications include over 220 scientific papers, technical reports, and popular articles as well as six co-edited books and monographs. Her research outputs range from conceptual and theoretical frameworks to review articles and those consolidating global case studies, contributions based on empirical data, and practical and grounded research outputs that are accessible to varied actors in the bio-economy, including policy-makers. -
Jaci van Niekerk
Contributor to WP1, WP2, WP5, and WP6; Social Lab leader
Researcher, University of Cape Town
Jaci van Niekerk completed a Master’s degree at the University of Cape Town (UCT), where her thesis examined the contribution of the international trade in an endemic medicinal plant, Pelargonium sidoides, to rural livelihoods in South Africa and Lesotho. Upon graduation, she took up a position as researcher in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science at UCT. She has been closely involved in several projects relating to environmental and social justice and has actively participated in the multi-partner regional network – the Seed and Knowledge Initiative - since its inception in 2013. She is currently part of the Bio-economy Research Chair team and continues to conduct research into themes related to the Chair, such as the commercial use of biodiversity, access and benefit sharing, the conservation of agrobiodiversity, small-scale farmers’ rights, and the protection of traditional knowledge. She has a special interest in the ethics of conducting research as well as strengthening university–community relationships. -
Maya Marshak
Contributor to WP1, WP2, WP5, and WP6
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Cape Town
Dr Maya Marshak is currently a DSI/NRF Research Chair: Environmental and Social Dimensions of the Bio-economy Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science at the University of Cape Town. She is based in Eswatini where she co-runs an agroecological farm which has become a site for learning and participatory agroecological research. She has been involved in a wide range of food systems research and has worked on projects in the areas of food security, urban and rural food systems, changing agricultural systems and knowledge in agriculture, agroecology, agriculture and climate change, seed systems, and Agriculture and Science and Technology studies. Her PhD explored the impacts of Genetically Modified seed and its co-technologies on agroecological knowledge, research and practice in South Africa. Her current research interest is in ways to mobilise alternative agricultural research through interdisciplinary collaborations such as between farmers and scientists. -
Mariëtte van den Hoven
WP4 Leader; Contributor to all work packages
Professor in Medical Ethics, Department of Ethics, Law and Humanities, Amsterdam University Medical Centre
Mariëtte van den Hoven is Professor in Medical Ethics and Head of the Department of Ethics, Law and Humanities at Amsterdam UMC. She is Chair of the Netherlands Research Integrity Network (NRIN) and is active in multiple projects on research integrity (e.g. INTEGRITY, ETHICS, Catalisi, Embassy of Good Science) and research ethics (PREPARED and IRECS). She co-founded the Network for Education in Research Quality (NERQ), which has a reach of approximately 300 trainers in Europe. -
Natalie Evans
WP4 Leader; Contributor to all work packages
Assistant Professor, Department of Ethics, Law and Humanities, Amsterdam University Medical Centre
Natalie Evans is a Senior Social Scientist with a background in public health and anthropology and an enduring interest in ethics and research integrity. Her research interests lie in how responsible research practices are conceptualised and communicated within academic communities. In the last five years, she has led stakeholder engagement activities for the PREPARED and ENTIRE projects and was the Scientific Coordinator for the successful VIRT2UE project, which developed a research integrity programme from a virtue ethics perspective and trained nearly 500 trainers, and 4000 researchers, across Europe. Through VIRT2UE, Natalie has trained research integrity trainers from Europe, Africa, and North America. Natalie is also a co-founder of the Embassy of Good Science and leads the Research Integrity Programme within the Department of Ethics, Law and Humanities. -
Rosie Hastings
WP4 Leader; Contributor to all work packages
Junior Researcher, Department of Ethics, Law and Humanities, Amsterdam University Medical Centre
Rosie Hastings has a background in neuroscience and philosophy, and her research interests include philosophy of mind, philosophy of (neuro)science, feminist philosophy, phenomenology, epistemology, and research ethics and integrity. As a member of the Department of Ethics, Law and Humanities at Amsterdam UMC, she has previously published on research integrity guidance in Europe, with a focus on the role of learned societies in developing and disseminating guidance, and was also involved in the National Survey on Research Integrity and Embassy of Good Science. In the RE4GREEN project, she will work on reviewing and developing research ethics and integrity training for research and innovation in the context of environmental and climate science. -
Dr. Anke Stock
Contributor to all work packages
Senior Gender Expert and Board Member, Women Engage for a Common Future (WECF)
Anke is a qualified lawyer and holds a PhD in comparative antidiscrimination law. She is also a board member of Women Engage for a Common Future e.V. and the European Environmental Bureau. She is an expert on gender issues in sustainable development, provides gender expertise to partners of the WECF network, and works on projects promoting gender equality in the environmental sector. On the international level, Anke is very active in advocating for gender equality within multilateral environmental agreements as well as on the EU level within the European Green Deal. She also has long-standing experience in consulting international organisations, such as the UN. -
Rose Heffernan
Contributor to all work packages
Gender Expert, Women Engage for a Common Future (WECF)
Rose Heffernan (they/she) is a Gender Expert who has engaged in advocacy and communications work through various UN processes such as the Commission on the Status of Women, the High-Level Political Forum, and the Global People’s Assembly. They are currently working on the REAL DEAL project – fostering citizens participation in the European Green Deal – and finishing their research master's at Central European University, where their thesis explores constructions of transgender feminisms in relation to the Scottish nation-state. -
Takahiro Nakajima
Contributor to WP1, WP2, WP3, WP5, and WP6; Social Lab leader
Professor, University of Tokyo
Takahiro Nakajima is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia and the Department of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, at the University of Tokyo. His research focus is oriented towards East Asian philosophy in the comparative context of inter-East Asian and Western Philosophy, and World Philosophy by seeking the “universalisation” of indigenous concepts in philosophy. Previously, he was editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Asian Studies, an interdisciplinary, English-language forum for research in the humanities and social sciences. He was the director of the East Asian Academy for New Liberal Arts at the University of Tokyo, where projects on world philosophy, world literature, and world history are carried out with young talented scholars. He is now the director of the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia. -
Tomohiro Akiyama
Contributor to WP1, WP2, WP3, WP5, and WP6; Social Lab member
Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japan
Tomohiro Akiyama is Specially Appointed Associate Professor at the Uehiro Research Center for Japan Environmental Studies, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japan. He is also Visiting Professor at Miyazaki International University, Visiting Professor at Kobe Institute of Computing, Part-time Lecturer at Bachelor's Program in Global Issues, School of Integrative and Global Majors, University of Tsukuba, and Honorary Research Associate at University of Cape Town. His aspiration is to solve global environmental problems. He pursues integral studies and integral practices for humanity and nature. His representative publications include “Integral Leadership Education for Sustainable Development” (2012), “Perspectives on Sustainability Assessment” (2012), Environmental Leadership Capacity Building in Higher Education (2013), Sustainability Science (2016), and “Integral Studies and Integral Practices for Humanity and Nature” (2022). -
Dr. Elena Lazutkaite
Research Project Manager, European Network of Research Ethics Committees (EUREC)
European Network of Research Ethics Committees (EUREC)
Dr. Elena Lazutkaite is an interdisciplinary researcher with a background in animal sciences and a PhD in critical theory from the University of Nottingham. She conducts policy-oriented research in areas such as agriculture, AI, sustainable development, and climate change. -
Giulia Inguaggiato
WP4
Assistant Professor
department of Ethics Law and Humanities, AmsterdamUMC (NL)
Giulia Inguaggiato is a philosopher with a background in medical ethics and research integrity. She is Assistant Professor at the department of Ethics Law and Humanities, AmsterdamUMC (NL). Her research focuses on exploring the intersection between philosophical ethical reflection and the practice of moral reasoning, particularly within ethics education, health care, and research.
Stakeholder advisory board members
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Dr. Maruxa Martinez-Campos
Stakeholder Advisory Board member
Digital media and scientific affairs
Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB)
Maruxa Martinez is a biologist (PhD, University of Cambridge), an ex-editor in a scientific journal (Genome Biology, London, UK) and currently a science communicator (PRBB, Barcelona, Spain). Beyond her communications role, she coordinates the PRBB "Equality, Diversity and Inclusion" and the "Good Scientific Practice" working groups. She has been teaching research integrity and good scientific practices to young researchers for the last 10 years, as an associate professor at the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), and she is a core member of ERION, the European Research Integrity Officers Network, within EARMA. -
Dr. Andreas Nikolaus Kleinschmit von Lengefeld
Stakeholder Advisory Board member
Founder
Homo Silverstris Europae
Dr. Andreas Nikolaus Kleinschmit von Lengefeld founded Homo Silvestris Europae in Paris in 2021, leveraging over 25 years of experience in the European and international forest-based sector and the circular bioeconomy. His company provides expert advice to key stakeholders and initiatives such as the woodPoP and the Bio2REG project to advance forestry, wood-based products and the circular bioeconomy. Additionally, he organizes expert studies on climate change adaptation and moderates international thematic conferences, driving sustainable growth and meaningful discussions. Notably, he has held significant roles at FCBA, was director at the European Forest-Based Sector Technology Platform, and is a member of the French Academy of Agriculture. -
Adjunct Prof. Maura Hiney
Stakeholder Advisory Board member
Adjunct Professor
Institute for Discovery, University College Dublin
Maura is an Adjunct Professor of Research Integrity at University College Dublin and a former senior manager at the Health Research Board. She has been actively involved in advancing research integrity policy for many years, serving in various national and international leadership roles such as Treasurer of the World Conference on RI Foundation Board and Co-chair of the 8th WCRI. Maura is Chair of the ALLEA Permanent Working Group on Science and Ethics and has co-authored the ALLEA European Code of Conduct for RI 2017 and 2023. She also sits on several EU Policy and Stakeholder Advisory Boards for EU projects that research RI and ethics issues. -
Christian Patermann
Stakeholder Advisory Board member
Former dep. Director General in the German Federal Ministry of Research and Technology, spokesperson and Director of Cabinet of this Ministry, the last 11years until 2007 Director of Env. and Climate Research and then responsiblef for Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and Biotechnology, introducing the Bioeconomy in the EU, then retired and now eorking as a n advisor for public and private stakeholders. -
Prof. Sandy O’Sullivan
Stakeholder Advisory Board member
Professor
Centre for Global Indigenous Futures/Department of Critical Indigenous Studies at Macquarie University – Australia
Professor Sandy O’Sullivan (they/them) is a transgender Wiradjuri person. They lead the Intimacies theme of the Centre for Global Indigenous Futures and they work in the Department of Critical Indigenous Studies, both housed at Macquarie University. They are a 2020-2025 ARC Senior Future Fellow with the program titled: Saving Lives: mapping the influence of Indigenous LGBTIQ+ creative artists. This nationally funded work follows on from another major ARC project that explored representation and engagement of Indigenous peoples and communities across national museums – a program that ran for eight years and reviewed 470 museums. They were also Chief Investigator on a national project mapping creative practice across a large rural region (Creative Barkly). Since 1991 they’ve taught and researched across gender and sexuality, education, museums, the body, creativities and First Nations’ identity. Sandy has been a musician, performer and sound artist since 1982, holding national and international residencies. -
Jakob Feldtfos Christensen
Stakeholder Advisory Board member
Director
DIVERSIunity
Jakob Feldtfos Christensen is the director of DIVERSIunity, an international consultancy based in Denmark dedicated to making diversity and internationalisation work in research and research management. Jakob has previously worked within research management and internationalisation for almost ten years at Aarhus University. He has been active in both the DARMA and EARMA. Building on this and his foundation from studying comparative religion he founded DIVERSIunity in 2020. With Lachlan Smith he co-hosts “The Diversity in Research Podcast”. -
Dr. Sarada Krishnan
takeholder Advisory Board member
Director
Global Crop Diversity Trust
Dr. Sarada Krishnan is the Director of Programs at the Global Crop Diversity Trust based in Bonn, Germany, where she currently supervises a team of scientists and project managers overseeing the planning, development, and implementation of the overall programmatic technical framework of Crop Trust. She has an undergraduate degree in Horticulture from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India, master’s degree in Horticulture from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA and PhD in Conservation Biology from the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. Her research focus is on the conservation and use of coffee genetic resources. -
Maciej Chojnowski
Stakeholder Advisory Board member
Co-founder and Program Director
Center for Ethics of Technology at the Humanites Intitute
Maciej Chojnowski – Co-founder and Program Director of the Center for Ethics of Technology at the Humanites Intitute. Author of the first popular science introduction to responsible AI in Polish ("Etyka sztucznej inteligencji. Wprowadzenie"). Member of the Working Group on AI (GRAI) at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland, where he runs a project on practical realisation of AI ethics requirements according to the Ethics of Use approach. Member of Technical Committee 338 on Artificial Intelligence at the Polish Committee for Standardization (PKN). -
Fern Wickson
Stakeholder Advisory Board member
Professor
UiT the Arctic University of Norway
Committed to the interdependent flourishing of humanity/nature, my work is focused on facilitating inner and outer sustainability transformations through leadership, governance, and education. Currently, I am coordinator of the international executive master's program in Ocean Leadership at UiT the Artic University of Norway; a Coordinating Lead Author (CLA) for the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment; lead facilitator for Homeward Bound (a global leadership initiative for women in STEMM); and owner/operator of The Peaceful Wild studio for yoga and meditation. Awed by the spectacular array of biological and cultural diversity on this precious planet, I have dedicated myself to finding ways to care for our collective co-arising that allow all lifeforms to flourish. I adamantly believe that sustainability and resilience require weaving the threads of disciplinary and experiential knowledges together as we craft caring ways to be in partnership with the world. I have worked as an environmental activist, an academic researcher, and an intergovernmental advisor. I have campaigned against the logging of old growth forests, sought solutions for nature-friendly food systems, researched responsible regulation of bio- and nano-technologies, and provided advice on how many whales and seals may be sustainably harvested. I have a background in ecology and political science, with a BA/BSc from the Australian National University, an Honours degree in Environmental Politics from the University of Tasmania, and a PhD on Environmental Governance awarded by both the natural and social science faculties at the University of Wollongong. -
Marielle Feenstra
Stakeholder Advisory Board member
Scientific Director 75inQ
Dr. Mariëlle Feenstra is co-founder and scientific director of 75inQ, the Institute on gender and energy promoting more visibility for diversity in the energy transition. After 15 years as a policy advisor for municipalities in the Netherlands, she returned to academia with her PhD project “Gender Just Energy Policy: engendering the energy transition in Europe” graduated in 2021 at University Twente, the Netherlands. She has been working on gender and energy since 2000. Her contribution as a gender-energy pioneer has been acknowledged both in academia and in practice by invitations to participate in policy formulation activities for the European Union and the United Nations. Within TU Delft she has been the coordinator of the Delft Design for Values Institute. -
Ana Maria Hernandez Salgar
Stakeholder Advisory Board member
Consultant for the Colombian government
Internationalist from the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University (Colombia).28 years of experience in international environmental law, international negotiation on biodiversity and science-policy interface, with several publications on biodiversity policy and legislation. She worked, among others, as Head of the Office of International Affairs of the Ministry of the Environment of Colombia, Executive Director of the NaturaCert Foundation and Head of the Office of International Affairs of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute. Also, as a professor at the University of Rosario and Javeriana University. Negotiator in multilateral environmental agreements associated with biodiversity, especially the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, IPBES. She served as Vice-Chair of the Bureau of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and Drought (UNCCD) and representative of the Bureau to IPBES. Elected as Chair of IPBES from May 2019 to September 2023. Member of the advisory board of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration from 2021 to 2023. Since March 2024, she has served as a high-level advisor to the CBD COP16 presidency. -
Philipp Weber
Stakeholder Advisory Board member
Sustainability Officer at EMBO
Philipp is the Sustainability Officer at EMBO and co-founder of Green Labs Austria. He is a scientist by training and is active in a number of areas relevant to the sustainable development of life science research. One of his goals is to promote exchange between different stakeholders, such as funding organisations, research institutions and bottom-up initiatives. -
Dr. Magali Weissgerber
Stakeholder Advisory Board member
Postdoctoral Researcher
German Institute for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Dr. Magali Weissgerber works at the German Institute for Integrative Biodiversity Research as a postdoctoral researcher. Her main research topics are land-use changes, ecosystem restoration, and rewilding. She has been involved in local, national, and European NGOs advocating for better living and working conditions for early career researchers since 2018. She is currently a General Board Member of Eurodoc, the European Council for Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers.