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Lidia Borrell Damian 1B scaled
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Lidia Borrell-Damián is Secretary General of Science Europe, the association representing national public organisations based in countries in the Council of Europe that fund and perform research. She holds overall responsibility for the organisation’s strategic development and implementation.
Her areas of experience cover a wide range of Research and Innovation (R&I) policy priorities, namely EU Framework Programme; European Research Area; International Cooperation; research infrastructures; research ethics and integrity; research assessment processes; university–business co-operation; regional innovation; gender and diversity; Open Science; doctoral education; energy science policy. Concerning international research co-operation, she is engaged in diverse policy fora including: the Global Research Council (GRC), supra-national bodies (UN; OECD-GSF; CoARA; DORA), and well-established international conferences (STS; FAPM; World Science Forum).
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Adrian Curaj is the General Director of the Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding – UEFISCDI, and professor at the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration. He had been working as a consultant for the World Bank, UNESCO, UNIDO, ETF and EC for studies in Tertiary Education, Science and Innovation, and Foresight. Adrian CURAJ is a fellow of the World Academy of Art & Science (WAAS). Since July 2021 he is the President of the Romanian Advisory Council for Sustainable Development.
Adrian Curaj is also a former minister of education, science and innovation.
Jean Emmanuel Faure
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Jean-Emmanuel Faure is team leader for Research Assessment at the European Commission, in the Directorate General for Research and Innovation. He led the preparation of the Commission scoping report on reforming research assessment (2021), contributed to drafting the Agreement on reforming research assessment (2022) as well as the governance of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA). He currently co-chairs the CoARA Working Group on “Improving practices in the assessment of research proposals”.
In the Commission, he previously worked on various other subjects: developing research infrastructures in the life sciences, developing synergies between the R&I and Regional policies, as well as implementing the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 and developing its successor, the Innovative Health Initiative.
Alina Irimia
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Alina Irimia is leading the Open Science related projects part of the Open Science Knowledge Hub at the Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI). Open Science has been the focus of her activity in the past 8 years, while she had the chance to collaborate with extraordinary initiatives and people at the international level, such as UNESCO, Science Europe (OS WG), OpenAIRE, EOSC, CoNOSC of which she is part of the Board starting 2023, and recently joined the IAU WG on OS. In the period 2019 – 2022, she has coordinated the process of developing the National Strategic Framework for Open Science in Romania, embodied in the White Paper on the Transition to Open Science 2023-2030. In 2020 Alina obtained her PhD in sociology at the University of Bucharest, focusing her research on the sociology of science, the new era of scientific communication, and the Mode 3 of knowledge production. Currently, she is also an Open Science policy expert at the UNESCO Chair for Science and Innovation Policy at SNSPA-Bucharest.
natasha
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Nataša Jakominić Marot, MBA, is Head of the University of Rijeka Centre for Research and Innovation and an experienced leader in research and innovation. Over two decades in the sector, she has demonstrated expertise in EU project preparation, implementation, and supervision, managing and supervising a portfolio exceeding 100 mEUR. Nataša's dynamic career includes representing Croatia in the European Union Visitors Programme (EUVP), receiving prestigious fellowships such as the Council of Europe for Young Leaders, and completing an MBA in Vienna followed by participation in a Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education programme as a Lukšić Fellow and is currently a PhD candidate in Sustainable Development.

She’s a trainer in project and research management, EU funding, and leadership. She is an expert in EU higher education and R&I policy and international peer reviewer in her fields of expertise. Since 2010, she has served as an external expert in project evaluation for various funding schemes. Currently, she is part of the 10th INORMS World Research Management Congress to be held in Madrid in 2025 and has been at the forefront of the efforts to reform research assessment in Europe, also by strongly promoting the principles of Open Science.

Hans WEB
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Hans de Jonge is director of Open Science NL, part of the Dutch Research Council (NWO). Open Science NL is the national (funding) program for Open Science in the Netherlands. Hans has worked at NWO overseeing its Open Science policies since 2018. Before working at NWO Hans worked as program manager at the academic affairs unit of Utrecht University and at the Dutch Association of Universities (UNL) where he headed the research policy unit. Hans is a historian by training and specialised in the history of science.
Ana Lebre
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Ana Lebre is Head of the Quality, Accreditation, and Employability Office, with over a decade of experience in higher education. She has expertise in developing academic programmes and fostering continuous improvement. As NOVA’s Quality Director for the "Community of Practice" within the EUTOPIA Alliance and an active contributor to the European Degree Label and OPUS projects, Ana is dedicated to supporting higher education institutions in implementing quality assurance policies that promote Open Science. Her role includes guiding departments in developing effective performance evaluation frameworks that incentivise fair researcher assessments and open academic collaboration.

James
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James Morris is a Senior Policy Officer at Science Europe working broadly on the topics of Research Culture, Research Assessment, and Research Infrastructures. He joined Science Europe in 2019 and has a background in marine and molecular biology and an interest in science communication. Before joining Science Europe, he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions post-doctoral fellow at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. He holds a PhD in Marine Science from the University of Southampton, UK.
At Science Europe, he leads activities aimed at improving the conditions for high-quality research and the evolution of research cultures. He has led the development of recommendations on research assessment processes and was a member of the drafting team of Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA).
gareth
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Gareth O'Neill is a Principal Consultant on Open Science at Technopolis Group specialising in Open Science, European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), Research Careers, and University Alliances. He is an ambassador for Plan S under cOAlition S, is developing a new researcher assessment framework (including indicators for Open Science) in the OPUS project, is developing a new research career framework (to improve research careers) in the SECURE project, and is developing the Open Science Observatory in the EOSC Track project. Gareth has recently published reports on the Pilot 1 and Pilot 2 University Alliances for the European Commission.
Sylvie Rousset
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Dr Sylvie Rousset, Director of Open Research Data Department (DDOR), French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), is a senior researcher in physics at CNRS. From 1997 to 2007 she was a research group leader in nanosciences at the Quantum Materials and Phenomena (MPQ) laboratory, (CNRS / Université Paris Diderot). She headed the MPQ laboratory from 2007 to 2010, before being the leader of the Nanosciences Center (Priority Research Area) of the greater Paris region (2010-2014) which became the Nano-K Center “From Cold Atoms to Nano sciences” in 2012. In 2014, she was elected as a Vice President of Research at the Université Paris Diderot (now University of Paris Cité), and in November 2018 she took over the role of Director of the CNRS Scientific and Technical Information Department (DIST), now being the Department of Open Research Data (DDOR). She is member of the CoARA Steering Board since December 2022.
Pil Maria Saugman
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Pil Maria Saugman is President of the European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers (Eurodoc). She holds a PhD in theoretical physics from Stockholm University. She co-chairs the CoARA working group on Ethics and Research Integrity Policy in Responsible Research Assessment for Data and Artificial Intelligence (CoARA- ERIP). She represents Eurodoc in the Council of Europe’s conference of International NGOs and in the Steering Committee for Education (CDEDU). She is a member of the Bureau of CDEDU as a representative of the academic community.

Radu Silaghi
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Prof. Silaghi-Dumitrescu received his PhD degrees from the University of Georgia in Athens, GA, U.S.A. (2004, experimental chemistry) and from the “Babeș-Bolyai” University in Romania (2005, computational chemistry). After a postdoctoral stage at the University of Essex (Colchester, England), he returned to the “Babeș-Bolyai” University in 2007, where he teaches biochemistry, computational chemistry and related subjects, while also serving as president of the Scientific Council (2012-) and director of the Center for University Strategies (2020-).
Ioana Spanache
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Ioana Spanache, PhD is a Policy and Evaluation Expert within UEFISCDI and a Research Assessment Expert within the UNESCO Chair for Policies in Science and Innovation at SNSPA, whose activity revolves around research assessment practices and processes, evaluation and funding of research organizations and infrastructures, as well as the use of foresight tools and methodologies in different contexts. She has previous experience in program evaluation and teaching.
She currently leads activities related to the development of performance-based research funding mechanisms and scenarios at national level, the development of a comprehensive template for an Openness Researcher profile to be tested as part of the GraspOS project, and of other initiatives.
Dr. Spanache is UEFISCDI’s representative within CoARA and an active member of different Science Europe Working Groups and Task Forces. Her strong interest in the topics of Research Culture and Research Assessment is also endorsed by the fact that she has conducted postdoctoral research on new approaches in research assessment and their potential implications for the Romanian research ecosystem.
Clifford Tatum
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Clifford Tatum is a Researcher at CWTS, Leiden University, working in the social studies of science, focusing on Responsible Research Assessment. He leads development of an 'Open Science Assessment Framework' in the GraspOS project and is co-leading CoARA working group: Towards Open Infrastructures for Responsible Research Assessment. He serves as reviewer of CoARA Boost proposals. Clifford is also Advisor in the Innovation Team, at SURF (collaborative IT for Dutch education and research). At SURF he leads development of the EOSC RAiD service in the FAIRCORE4EOSC project. He is a member of the (ARDC) RAiD advisory group.
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