Oliver Holtemöller
Vice President of the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH)
Oliver Holtemöller is Professor of Economics at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and head of the Department...
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Ângela Pereira
Joint Research Centre - European Commission
Ângela Guimarães Pereira works at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, holding a PhD on Environmental Systems and...
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Tolu Oni
GYA Co-Chair
Tolu Oni is a Public Health Physician Scientist and urban epidemiologist, and a Clinical Senior Research fellow with MRC Epidemiology Unit's Global Public Health Research...
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Irina Podgorny
Research Fellow at CONICET
Irina Podgorny is a permanent research fellow at the Argentine National Council of Science (CONICET). She studied Archaeology at the La Plata University...
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Cristina Blanco Sío-López
Assistant Professor in European Culture and Politics
Dr. Cristina Blanco Sío-López is Assistant Professor in European Culture and Politics at the University of Groningen. She holds a trilingual position...
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Howard Alper
University Professor at the University of Ottawa
Howard Alper is a distinguished University Professor at the University of Ottawa. The basic research Alper has been pursuing encompasses...
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Silke Beck
Acting Chair, Department of Environmental Politics (UFZ)
Silke Beck is an internationally recognized expert in the field of global environmental assessmentsas well evidence-based policy-making...
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Robert Lepenies
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Dr. Robert Lepenies is a research scientist at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research. Dr. Robert Lepenies is recipient of...
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Suraj Bhattarai
GYA Member
Dr. Bhattarai is a scholar of Tropical Medicine & International Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), UK. His research...
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Vladimír Šucha
Director-General of the Joint Research Centre
Vladimír Šucha is Director-General of the Joint Research Centre, the European Commission's science and knowledge service...
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Matthew Levy
GYA Member
Dr. Matthew C. Levy is a computational scientist working at the intersection of physics and artificial intelligence. He is widely-recognized for creating...
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Antonio Loprieno
President of ALLEA
Antonio Loprieno is a Professor of Egyptology, Linguistics and Semitology currently teaching the History of Institutions at the University of Basel. In May 2018...
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Koen Vermeir
Associate Research Professor at the French National Centre for Scientific Research
Koen Vermeir is an Associate Research Professor (CR1) at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)...
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Rees Kassen
Full Professor and Cystic Fibrosis Canada Researcher at the University of Ottawa
Rees Kassen is internationally recognized for his work with microbes as models for studying...
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Connie Nshemereirwe
GYA Co-Chair
Dr. Connie Nshemereirwe is an independent science and policy facilitator, and acts at the science-policy interface as a trainer, writer and speaker. She is on the...
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Amy Luers
Executive Director of Future Earth
Amy Luers is Executive Director of Future Earth. Having spent her career on issues related to science communication, data, sustainability...
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Anna Harris
Maastricht University
I pursue an approach to the social study of medicine that is grounded in ethnographic studies of contemporary medical practices, my clinical experience...
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Eva Alisic
Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne
Eva Alisic is Associate Professor, Child Trauma and Recovery at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where she leads the Trauma Recovery Lab...
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Alexander Kagansky
Director of Genomic and Regenerative Medicine, Vladivostok
Alexander Kagansky is a Director of a Center for Genomic and Regenerative Medicine, School of...
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David Mair
Head of Unit H.1 in JRC at European Commission
David has worked for the European Commission since 1995 and in the Joint Research Centre (the Commission's science and knowledge...
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Roula Inglesi-Lotz
Associate Professor at University of Pretoria
Professor Inglesi-Lotz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the...
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Martin Frick
Senior Director Policy and Program Coordination, UNFCCC
Martin Frick oversees as Senior Director UNFCCC’s work supporting the implementation of the Paris Agreement...
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Jacqueline Olang
Executive Director of NASAC
Jackie Olang Kado is the Executive Director of the Network of African Science Academies (NASAC). NASAC, whose secretariat is based in Nairobi...
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Orakanoke Phanraksa
National Science and Technology Development Agency
Dr. Phanraksa received Ph.D. degree in laws from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 2005. She is...
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Sir Peter Gluckman
Founding Chair of INGSA
Professor Sir Peter Gluckman ONZ FRS is the founding chair of the International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA), President-elect of the International Science Council...
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Clarissa Rios Rojas
Founder and Director of Ekpa'palek
A scientist with more than 13 years of experience in conducting and planning multilateral scientific and non-scientific projects. Worked at...
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Clifford Siskin
Director of The Re:Enlightenment Project
Clifford Siskin is the Henry W. and Alfred A. Berg Professor of English at New York University and the Director of The Re:Enlightenment Project...
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Ismail Serageldin
Emeritus Librarian of Alexandria
Ismail Serageldin was the Founding Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the New Library of Alexandria (2001-2017) and is currently...
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Adewale Adewuyi
Redeemer’s University, Nigeria
Adewale Adewuyi holds BSc (Chemistry), MSc and PhD in Industrial Chemistry from the University of Ibadan. Over the years, his research activities has been...
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Sameh Soror
Director of Helwan Structural Biology Research
Sameh Soror is an Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Faculty of Pharmacy Helwan University and Director of the...
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Martin Visbeck
Professor for Physical Oceanography
Martin Visbeck is head of research unit Physical Oceanography at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and...
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Detlev Ganten
Co-Chair of IAP for Health
From 2004 to 2008 Detlev Ganten was chief executive officer at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the joint medical faculty of the Free University and Humboldt...
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Chioma Daisy Onyige
Senior lecturer of Criminology
Dr Chioma Daisy Onyige is a Senior lecturer of Criminology at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria...
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Sietske Fransen
Max Plank Research Group Leader at the Bibliotheca Hertziana
Sietske Fransen works on the history of communicating science in both word and image. She has worked at the...
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Volker ter Meulen
InterAcademy Partnership President
Volker ter Meulen is a physician. His research focused on pathogenic aspects of viral infections, in particular infections of the central...
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Christiane Diehl
Executive Director of EASAC
After two years of social work in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Christiane Diehl studied at the Universities of Mainz and Oxford, getting a doctorate from Oxford...
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Pearl Dykstra
Professor of Empirical Sociology
I am a professor of Empirical Sociology at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, and deputy-chair...
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Jörg Hacker
Leopoldina President
Jörg Hacker is a microbiologist. His research focused on the molecular analysis of pathogenic bacteria and host-microbe interaction. From 1980...
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Elisabeth Décultot
Humboldt-Professor at MLU Halle-Wittenberg
Elisabeth Décultot is Humboldt Professor of Modern Written Culture and European Knowledge Transfer at the Martin Luther University Halle...
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Maarten van Herpen
Head of the Philips Africa Innovation Hub
Maarten van Herpen was appointed as Head of the Philips Africa Innovation Hub in September 2013, making him responsible for Philips’...
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Abdalhadi Alijla
Associate Researcher at Varieties of Democracy Institute at Gothenburg University
Abdalhadi Alijla is a Palestinian - Swedish academic and writer. He is associate Researcher at...
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Petra Sachse
City of Halle, Germany
Director of the department for Economy, Science and Digitization of the City of Halle (Saale), Germany
Lisa Herzog
Professor at the Bavarian School of Public Policy at the Technical University Munich
Lisa Herzog is Professor of Political Philosophy and Theory at the Bavarian School of Public Policy at the Technical...
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Shoji Komai
Associate Professor in NAIST
I got my Ph.D. from Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan (Biology). After that, I worked in Kobe Unviversity as a postdoc studying...
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Rainer Godel
Director of the Centre for Science Studies at the German National Academy of Sciences
Rainer Godel is the head of the Leopoldina Centre for Science Studies (since 2013) and adjunct Professor of German...
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Philipp Kanske
Professor at TU Dresden
Philipp Kanske is Professor for Clinical Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience at Technische Universität Dresden and a Research Associate at the Max Planck...
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