Flávio Azevedo is a Brazilian Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen. He is a pioneer in developing tools and practices in Open Science and advocates for a more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible Open Science movement. He is a recognized international leader in the field and has received prestigious awards such as the UKRN Open Science Dorothy Bishop Prize, Hidden-REF, and JISC Champion. He was also a finalist for the Einstein Foundation Award on Research Quality. Flávio co-founded and directs FORRT—A Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (forrt.org) — an award-winning, interdisciplinary, and international community of over 1000 early-career scholars aiming to integrate open scholarship principles into higher education and to advance research transparency, reproducibility, rigour, and ethics through pedagogical reform and metascience.

Joeri Tijdink is a Principal Investigator at Amsterdam UMC and affiliated with VU University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His main research focusses on research integrity, reproducibility, mental well-being in academia and research culture. He is currently involved  in several research projects, including the TIER2 project which explores the future(s) of reproducibility. He is also the author of the book “The Happy Academic”; a book that provides guidance for early career researchers navigating academia’s torments (2023). Apart from his work as a researcher, he works as a clinical psychiatrist. Recently, his appointment as member of the Young Academy from the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in the Netherlands underscores his commitment in improving research quality and making academia a better place.

Lex Bouter is Professor Emeritus of Methodology and Integrity at the Department of Epidemiology and Data Science of the Amsterdam University Medical Centers and the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Humanities of the Vrije Universiteit. He is involved research and teaching on research integrity and open science topics. He was appointed as tenured Professor of Epidemiology in 1992 and served his university as its rector between 2006 and 2013. Professor Bouter has supervised 78 PhD students, of whom to date 17 were appointed as professor. He is the founding chair of the World Conferences on Research Integrity Foundation.

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Andrea Kis, a PhD candidate at Eindhoven University of Technology, is passionate about understanding the experiences of researchers. Her work explores connections between psychological and environmental factors within academia, with a special focus on the sustainability of science and academic careers.
Andrea obtained her Masters in Environmental Psychology at the University of Groningen, after being trained as a Behavioral Analyst, Information Scientist, and Designer. Her interdisciplinary approach and commitment to (social) sustainability are reflected in her active contributions to a range of projects within organizations such as FORRT, the Low Carbon Initiative of TU/e, or SIPS as well as policy advocacy connected to her own research.

Jenny van der Steen, MSc, PhD, FGSA, is an epidemiologist and Associate Professor at Leiden University Medical Center and senior researcher at Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She studies how to improve care at the end of life, in particular for persons with dementia and their family. She has been awarded national and European prizes. She has a specific interest in research integrity, and aims at optimizing research design, employing rigorous quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods, preferably in international comparative and with parallel methodological work.

Tamarinde Haven is an Assistant Professor in Research Methodology for the Social Behavioural Sciences at Tilburg University. She has a background in psychology, philosophy and epidemiology. Her PhD focused on fostering a responsible research climate for integrity. Tamarinde’s research interests include research integrity, methodology, open science, and qualitative and mixed methods research.

Iris Lechner is PhD candidate at the philosophy department of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her PhD focuses on the question ‘what is a good university?’. After obtaining a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts and sciences she studied health sciences and bioethics. Recently, her interests have geared to social epistemology, philosophy of higher education, research integrity and the application of qualitative research methods in these fields.

Cristian Mesquida obtained a bachelor’s degree in exercise and health science and a master’s degree in exercise physiology. Currently, he is a PhD candidate in the Human-Technology Interaction Group at the Eindhoven University of Technology. His PhD focuses on the question “is exercise and health research replicable?”. Specifically, his PhD aims to assess the presence of the “troubling trio” –questionable research practices, publication bias and studies with underpowered designs– which are known to hinder the replicability of scientific literature. He is also interested in philosophy of science, computational reproducibility and research methods.

Tom is a postdoctoral researcher at the CWTS in Leiden, where he is currently part of a team designing a Delphi study to map disciplinary differences in responsible research practices. His PhD research at the Leiden University Medical Center focuses on the concept of researcher discretion, for which he conducted twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork at research groups to study the decisions researchers made during the execution of a research plan, how these decisions were made, and which considerations came up during this process.

Nina Schwarzbach is a PhD candidate at the University of Groningen. During her studies she focused on clinical psychology and psychometrics. Her current research is about science and practice in psychotherapy, specifically how the assumptions and methods of researchers and clinicians influence the applicability of research in practice. Her interests are furthermore in epistemology, the perceptions of objectivity and subjectivity in social research, and open science.

Jenny van der Steen, MSc, PhD, FGSA, is an epidemiologist and Associate Professor at Leiden University Medical Center and senior researcher at Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She studies how to improve care at the end of life, in particular for persons with dementia and their family. She has been awarded national and European prizes. She has a specific interest in research integrity, and aims at optimizing research design, employing rigorous quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods, preferably in international comparative and with parallel methodological work.

Lodewijk Pet is a physician and researcher in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). His projects are focused on the quality and integrity of biomedical sciences. Among other things, Lodewijk’s researches the perception of the Dutch Code of Conduct for Scientific Integrity, whether new aspects should be included in it, and the content of reports from the National Board for Research Integrity (LOWI) concerning scientific integrity.

Mohammad Hosseini holds a BA in business management (Eindhoven, NL), MA in applied ethics (Utrecht, NL) and PhD in research ethics and integrity (Dublin, IRE). Currently he is an assistant professor at Northwestern University’s Department of Preventive Medicine, a guest lecturer of research ethics, an associate editor of the journal of Accountability in Research and a member of the Global Young Academy. In his research, Mohammad explores the ethics of using emerging technologies in research, such as artificial intelligence and large language models, ethics of recognizing contributions in scholarly collaborations and gender and diversity issues in academia.

Joeri Tijdink is a Principal Investigator at Amsterdam UMC and affiliated with VU University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His main research focusses on research integrity, reproducibility, mental well-being in academia and research culture. He is currently involved  in several research projects, including the TIER2 project which explores the future(s) of reproducibility. He is also the author of the book “The Happy Academic”; a book that provides guidance for early career researchers navigating academia’s torments (2023). Apart from his work as a researcher, he works as a clinical psychiatrist. Recently, his appointment as member of the Young Academy from the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in the Netherlands underscores his commitment in improving research quality and making academia a better place.

Katharina Miller, LL.M. (Luxembourg) serves as Non-Executive Director of various corporate boards in Germany, Spain and USA. She has extensive expertise in Compliance & Ethics, Legal, ESG/CSR and Diversity-Equity-Inclusion. Since 2018, she has been investigating the sustainable compliance culture at the Observatory on Corporate Sustainable Culture of the Foundations IE and Elecnor. She is adjunct professor at the IE Law University. She is founding partner of the boutique law firm Miller International Knowledge (MIK) and Compliance consultancy 3C Compliance, with strong expertise in German and Spanish Corporate Governance and Good Data Governance and in the interface between Compliance & Ethics and business and academic sphere.
She is former Head of the EU Delegation at the G20/W20 as well as Ethics, Research and Innovation Expert and Appraiser for the European Commission. She is Advisory Board Member of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law of the Berkeley Law School and the co-founder of its Digital Equality working group. She is also founding member of the “Leading with AI” blog and is co-author of the book chapter Instructing AI Ethics & Human Rights (2021).

Serge P.J.M. Horbach works as assistant professor at the Institute for Science in Society, Radboud University. Trained as a mathematician, he obtained his PhD in Science and Technology Studies (STS), for work on scholarly publishing, peer review and research integrity. After working at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (Leiden University) and the Danish Center for Studies in Research and Research Policy (Aarhus University) he rejoined Radboud University in March 2024. Here, he continues his work on scholarly communication, science-society interactions, public trust in and perceptions of science, and innovations in knowledge production and dissemination models.

Jenny van der Steen, MSc, PhD, FGSA, is an epidemiologist and Associate Professor at Leiden University Medical Center and senior researcher at Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She studies how to improve care at the end of life, in particular for persons with dementia and their family. She has been awarded national and European prizes. She has a specific interest in research integrity, and aims at optimizing research design, employing rigorous quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods, preferably in international comparative and with parallel methodological work.

Krishma Labib is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She is also Coordinator of the Amsterdam Center of expertise for Research Integrity and Open Science (RIOS). Prior to this role, Krishma completed her PhD, focusing on institutional responsibilities for fostering research integrity. As part of the Horizon funded SOPs4RI project, Krishma developed guidelines on research integrity aimed at how research institutions can foster a positive research environment, strengthen supervision and provide good research integrity education and training. She has also been involved in delivering various trainings and courses related to research ethics and integrity at the VU and Amsterdam UMC, including coordinating some.

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 conceptualized 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. 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.

Jenny van der Steen, MSc, PhD, FGSA, is an epidemiologist and Associate Professor at Leiden University Medical Center and senior researcher at Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She studies how to improve care at the end of life, in particular for persons with dementia and their family. She has been awarded national and European prizes. She has a specific interest in research integrity, and aims at optimizing research design, employing rigorous quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods, preferably in international comparative and with parallel methodological work.

Dr. Dafna Feinholz is Director a.i. Division of Research, Ethics and Inclusion and Chief of Section Bioethics and Ethics of Science and Technology Section – Social and Human Sciences Sector at UNESCO.

Michiel de Boer is an Associate Professor in Epidemiology, who works as a methodologist at the Department of Primary and Long-term Care of the University Medical Center Groningen. He is co-founder and chair of the Dutch Reproducibility Network.

Joeri Tijdink is a Principal Investigator at Amsterdam UMC and affiliated with VU University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His main research focusses on research integrity, reproducibility, mental well-being in academia and research culture. He is currently involved  in several research projects, including the TIER2 project which explores the future(s) of reproducibility. He is also the author of the book “The Happy Academic”; a book that provides guidance for early career researchers navigating academia’s torments (2023). Apart from his work as a researcher, he works as a clinical psychiatrist. Recently, his appointment as member of the Young Academy from the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in the Netherlands underscores his commitment in improving research quality and making academia a better place.

Gowri Gopalakrishna is an epidemiologist by training who has spent the last four years working on the Dutch National Survey on Research Integrity. She is currently assistant professor at Maastricht University where she teaches research integrity, ethics and open science and conducts meta research on these topics. She is also research fellow at the Department of Epidemiology and Data Science, Amsterdam University Medical Center where she works on the same topics. Some of her most significant contributions include the control and prevention of the SARS epidemic in 2003 for which she received a national public service medal, in recognition for her contribution towards the control of the SARS outbreak in Singapore, and the rest of the world. She has coordinated and been involved in setting up several strategic and expert advisory committees in her career as an epidemiologist at the international level, working with the CDC in the US, WHO, Health Canada, NICE UK and various Ministries of Health.

Pauline Karega is a PhD student at the University of Manchester, specializing in the integration of health and environmental data. Her research aims to show the impact of climate change on health. An avid advocate for open science, Pauline is particularly passionate about the use of open data to advance research and knowledge sharing. She co-leads an initiative dedicated to raising awareness about bioinformatics and promoting open science practices in Kenya.

Joeri Tijdink is a Principal Investigator at Amsterdam UMC and affiliated with VU University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His main research focusses on research integrity, reproducibility, mental well-being in academia and research culture. He is currently involved  in several research projects, including the TIER2 project which explores the future(s) of reproducibility. He is also the author of the book “The Happy Academic”; a book that provides guidance for early career researchers navigating academia’s torments (2023). Apart from his work as a researcher, he works as a clinical psychiatrist. Recently, his appointment as member of the Young Academy from the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in the Netherlands underscores his commitment in improving research quality and making academia a better place.

Niek Brunsveld is Team lead, Research & Innovation policy, at the Executive Staff of the University of Amsterdam. In this role, Niek leads the team of policy advisors on research and innovation policy and coordinates university-wide initiatives on research priority areas, interdisciplinary research initiatives, cooperation with public and private partners, and research integrity and ethics. He is also the scientific secretary of the University Research Advisory Council. In addition to his work for the Executive Staff, Niek is a part-time assistant professor of ethics of economics and business at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Amsterdam.

Tamarinde Haven is an Assistant Professor in Research Methodology for the Social Behavioural Sciences at Tilburg University. She has a background in psychology, philosophy and epidemiology. Her PhD focused on fostering a responsible research climate for integrity. Tamarinde’s research interests include research integrity, methodology, open science, and qualitative and mixed methods research.

Rita Santos joined NRIN as a coordinator in 2023. In the past, she was a junior researcher in the H2020 INTEGRITY project. Her main tasks involved developing teaching modules on research integrity and responsible conduct in research for high school students. In 2022, Rita worked as Executive Director and Project Manager at the European Network for Academic Integrity. Her main tasks involved organising the networks’ events and activities and supporting the members. Rita was the coordinator of one project output of the Erasmus+ FAITH(Facing Academic Integrity Threats) project about raising awareness for victims of misconduct in academia and research. She coordinated the Victim Support Portal under this project. Rita also led ENAI’s involvement in the Erasmus+ ETHICS (Responsible Conduct of Research – Research Integrity and Ethics in Georgian Universities) project.

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