Speakers and Session Organisers

Isabel Barriuso Ortega, Research Agora

Isabel is the COO and co-founder of Research Agora, a platform to foster a more accessible, transparent, and collaborative research ecosystem. She holds a PhD in Neuroscience (Heidelberg University). With over 8 years of experience working in Spain, France, and Germany, she authored important publications on Systems Neuroscience. She is an expert data analyst, passionate about science communication. Isabel is also an active member of AMIT-MIT and WomANDigital, where she works to advance gender equality and reduce discrimination in research and STEM.

Jan Bernoth, University of Potsdam

Jan Bernoth, M.Sc., is a computer scientist working as a researcher, team lead, and PhD candidate at the chair of Prof. Dr. Ulrike Lucke at the University of Potsdam. Guided primarily by his work in NFDIxCS, his research focuses on supporting research data and software management by designing the necessary architecture behind the Research Data Management Container, in collaboration with the consortium and the computer science community. His PhD research explores how to visualize research topics in non-scientific media to support scientists in their science communication efforts.

Tim Errington, Center for Open Science

Tim Errington is the Senior Director of Research at the Center for Open Science (COS) that aims to increase openness, integrity, and reproducibility of scientific research. In that position he conducts and collaborates with researchers and stakeholders across scientific disciplines and organizations on metascience projects aimed to understand the current research process and evaluate initiatives designed to increase reproducibility and openness of scientific research. These include large scale reproducibility projects such as the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology and the DARPA supported Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE), and evaluation projects of new initiatives such as open science badges, Registered Reports, and a novel responsible conduct of research training.

Vanessa Guzek , Miller International Knowledge

Vanessa Guzek Hernando is a lawyer admitted to practice in both Germany and Spain with over a decade of experience in intellectual property law, international legal frameworks, and policy development. She joined Miller International Knowledge (MIK) as the Legal and Policy Director for IP4OS, where she leads strategic legal initiatives at the intersection of intellectual property and open science. Since beginning her legal practice in 2013, Vanessa has specialized in cross-border legal strategies, compliance, and regulatory frameworks. Her deep knowledge of international private law, distribution law, and liability law uniquely positions her to support and shape innovative IP management within open research environments.

Pablo Hernández Malmierca, Research Agora

Pablo is the CEO and co-founder of Research Agora, a platform to foster a more accessible, transparent, and collaborative research ecosystem. He holds a PhD in Stem Cells Biology and Immunology (Heidelberg University) and has over 10 years of experience in research in Spain, UK, Switzerland, and Germany. He knows the ins and outs of academic and industry research, and has authored important publications. He always wanted to be a researcher, but now his passion is improving research culture worldwide.

Firas Al Laban, University of Potsdam

Firas Al Laban is an academic and researcher with a robust background in Computer Science and Mathematics. He holds a Ph.D. in Knowledge Management Systems and has international experience in higher education, including teaching diverse subjects, supervising student research, and contributing to international conferences and peer-reviewed publications. He currently works as a scientific staff member at the University of Potsdam, focusing on research data and software management within the NFDIxCS project. His work is driven by a deep commitment to innovation, open science, and the advancement of technology and education through research-based and sustainable practices.

Ilona Lipp , University of Leipzig

Ilona Lipp is the Open Science Officer at the University of Leipzig, promoting and supporting transparency and integrity in research. She has over 12 years of research experience in interdisciplinary neuroscience in Austria, the UK, and Germany. With additional training in coaching, mediation and didactics, she now helps scientists navigate academia and optimize their research practices.

Katja Mayer, University of Vienna

Katja Mayer is a sociologist and science and technology studies scholar at the University of Vienna, specializing in the politics of open science, digital infrastructures, and AI. Her research critically examines how data practices co-constitute and reflect social relations.

With experience in both academia and the IT industry, she integrates practical and theoretical perspectives in her teaching and policy engagement. She is also a senior scientist at the Center for Social Innovation (ZSI) in Vienna, where she collaborates on participatory approaches to evaluating citizen science.

Katharina Miller, Miller International Knowledge

Katharina Miller is a German-Spanish lawyer and founding partner of Miller International Knowledge (MIK), where she advises on intellectual property rights, open science, and responsible research, currently also in the Horizon Europe project IP4OS, as lead for its WP3. She is an expert in legal and ethical frameworks for innovation, with over 15 years of experience bridging compliance, EU policy, and sustainability.

Julia Priess-Buchheit, Kiel University

Prof. Dr. Julia Priess-Buchheit (Prof. Dr. phil.) is a specialist in open science, research ethics, and social technologies. She leads the Zentrum für Konstruktive Erziehungswissenschaft (Centre for Constructive Educational Science) and conducts research at Kiel University, having previously developed interdisciplinary programs at Coburg University. She coordinates major EU-funded projects on open science and intellectual property, including IP4OS and Path2Integrity. Recognised for her innovative teaching, she has won multiple awards, including the Genius Loci-Preis and prizes from national and EU hackathons.

Erik Schultes, Leiden University

Erik Schultes is senior researcher in the Metabolomics and Analytics Center at the Leiden Academic Center for Drug Research (MAC/LACDR), at Leiden University. At the MAC/LACDR Erik leads efforts to FAIRify a high-throughput mass spectrometry laboratory.  He is also lead in FAIR Implementation at the GO FAIR Foundation (GFF). In the GFF Erik has worked with a broad spectrum of stakeholders and technologies to develop scalable approaches to FAIRification.

Erik is motivated by the exciting opportunities emerging around FAIR infrastructures for both academic and other sectors. Using nanopublication-based FAIR Digital Objects as FAIR metadata tags to capture research objects.

Stefan Skupien, Berlin University Alliance

After positions as doctoral researcher and in university management, Stefan Skupien worked as a scientific project manager on African-European research relations in tropical medicine and engineering at the Berlin Social Science Center. The study led to an open-source project on science funding as a fellow of the Wikimedia Open Science Fellows Program in 2019/20. Since June 2020, Stefan Skupien has been working as scientific coordinator in Objective 3 of the Berlin University Alliance, combining his experience in research management, international science studies, and Open Science.

Peter Suber, Harvard Library / Harvard Open Access Project

Peter Suber is an American philosopher specializing in the history of philosophy and open access to knowledge. He is Senior Advisor on Open Access (in Harvard Library) and Director of the Harvard Open Access Project (in the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society).