Speakers and Session Organisers
Marie Alavi, Kiel University
Marie Alavi is a research associate at Kiel University. Her main research focus is the intersection of Responsible Conduct of Research, Open Science, Intellectual Property and AI. She is the co-developer of the GATE and member of the Network for Education and Research Quality (NERQ), co-leading the special interest groups on Open Science (where GATE has its origins) and Open Science & Intellectual Property. Marie is currently involved in the IP4OS project. Prior to that, she was involved with Path2Integrity and HAnS, where she conducted research focused on research integrity and the role of AI in higher education.
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.
Felix Bach, FIZ Karlsruhe
Head of Research Data Department, FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure
Dr Felix Bach is Head of the Research Data Department at FIZ Karlsruhe and Scientific Coordinator of the Leibniz ScienceCampus DiTraRe (Digital Transformation of Research), where he coordinates interdisciplinary efforts to advance digital research workflows across the sciences and humanities. He serves as co-spokesperson of the NFDI4Chem consortium and leads Task Area 3 (Repositories). He is also involved in several other NFDI consortia, including NFDI4Memory, NFDI4Objects, and NFDI4Culture. His work focuses on research data infrastructures, repository development, electronic lab notebooks (ELN), semantic data modelling, and interoperability as well as open
Prof. dr. René Bekkers
René Bekkers is full professor of Philanthropy at the Department of Sociology at VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His current research combines surveys, experiments and administrative data to study causes, correlates, and consequences of prosocial behavior and research integrity. Webpage, Mastodon, Picture
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.
Aysa Ekanger, Arctic University of Norway
Aysa Ekanger is the coordinator of Septentrio Academic Publishing, a diamond OA journal publishing service at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. In the Septentrio team, she works with user support and editor training. She is also one of the university library’s experts on Creative Commons licenses, and works with other Open Access related issues. Aysa has a PhD in Theoretical Linguistics from the University of Groningen, Netherlands.
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.
Jo Havemann
Jo Havemann, PhD is the Founder & CEO of Access 2 Perspectives, where she delivers training and consulting in Open Science communication and digital research management. She holds a PhD in Evolution and Developmental Biology and is a certified trainer recognized by the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce. Jo is also co-founder and lead coordinator of AfricArXiv, the open scholarly repository enhancing the visibility of African research. Her expertise—including global research equity, Open Science workflows, and science communication—is informed by experience with NGOs, a science startup, and the UN Environment Programme.
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.
Anna Jacyszyn, FIZ Karlsruhe
Anna Jacyszyn is a postdoctoral researcher in the Information Service Engineering (ISE) group at FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure. She holds a PhD in astrophysics. Anna is working mostly as a coordinator of the Leibniz Science Campus “Digital Transformation of Research”, where she navigates collaborative efforts between interdisciplinary working groups. A special focus of her work is AI4DiTraRe: studying and applying different AI methods in four DiTraRe use cases.
Tobias Kerzenmacher, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Research Scientist in the Research Data Management Group at the Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMKASF) at KIT. Dr. Tobias Kerzenmacher’s work centers on atmospheric physics and chemistry, with a particular focus on understanding stratospheric processes using a combination of Earth system models and observational data. His scientific interests include large-scale atmospheric circulation, in particular the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO). He is also co-author of a forthcoming chapter on zonal mean climatology in the Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences (Elsevier, 2025). As a member of the data management team at KIT’s Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Trace Gas and Remote Sensing Division (IMKASF), Dr. Kerzenmacher supports the full data lifecycle—from acquisition and processing to quality control, documentation, and open-access publication. He is a key contributor to the DiTraRe project, promoting FAIR data principles and reproducibility. In support of open science, he is publishing and updating the monthly QBO dataset of tropical stratospheric winds on Zenodo, widely used in climate research.
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.
Anika Müller-Karabil, Bremen University
Anika Müller-Karabil works as research staff at Bremen University / the Language Centres for the Universities in Bremen. She is an expert in the field of language teaching, learning and testing, and her research interests include academic language requirements in higher education, language education in the context of AI, and Open Science. Anika is a co-developer of GATE and member of the Network for Education and Research Quality (NERQ).
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).
Mahsa Vafaie, FIZ Karlsruhe
Mahsa Vafaie is a PhD student and a researcher in the Information Service Engineering group at FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure. She is currently working on a digitalisation project that aims to create a knowledge graph for contextualisation of historical knowledge derived from collections of documents, records, and materials directly linked to the compensation process for the atrocities of the National Socialist regime in Germany (“Themenportal zur Wiedergutmachung nationalsozialistischen Unrechts”). She is also involved in scientific and teaching activities in the fields of Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web, at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and in other conferences and venues relevant to these fields.