Mariëtte van den Hoven is a full professor of medical philosophy and medical ethics and head of the Ethics, Law, and Humanities department at Amsterdam UMC. Her research focuses on professional ethics, responsible conduct of research and public health ethics. Mariëtte’s current work, supported by grants from ZonMw, Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe, focuses on evaluating and implementing training in the fields of responsible conduct of research and research ethics. Combined with chairing the Netherlands Research Integrity Network (NRIN) and co-chairing the NERQ network on educational quality, she is well-embedded in the field to support colleagues nationally and internationally on these topics.

Mariëtte is also the co-chair of the Center for Research Integrity and Open Science (RIOS). She aims to build RIOS as the central community hub in Amsterdam for everyone who does research on or teaches research integrity and open science.

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.

T. Honeysett is a Research Master’s student in the Humanities Department at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Graduating cum laude with a BA in Philosophy from the VU, they have extensive experience in creative content development and digital strategy for nonprofits in the arts, education, and cultural sectors. As a Project Assistant for the Netherlands Research Integrity Network (NRIN), they support NRIN’s online presence and live events, helping to foster engagement in research integrity initiatives.

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 in 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 79 PhD students, of whom to date 17 were appointed as professor. He is the founding chair of the World Conferences on Research Integrity Foundation.

Dr. Blom has a biomedical background with a focus on epidemiology, communication and policy making. After defending her thesis on periconceptional folic acid supplementation, she coordinated NRIN. Fenneke continued working in the field of research integrity as postdoc on the INSPIRE project and the VIRT2UE project, in which she develops online training and trains trainers to train virtue-based ethics and integrity training. At the HAN University of Applied Sciences she now works as a senior researcher on the TETRIAS project, designing tailored training for researchers in UASs. Fenneke is an experienced moral case deliberation moderator and has (re)designed the Research Integrity courses and training materials for various institutions.

Serge P.J.M. Horbach is an Assistant professor in Science and Technology Studies at the Institute for Science in Society, Radboud University. He has a background in Mathematics and obtained his PhD on research integrity and scholarly communication from Radboud University. After working at the Danish Center for Studies in Research and Research Policy, Aarhus University, and the Center for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, he returned to Radboud University for his current position in 2024. Serge’s main research interests include scholarly communication, particularly peer review practices and innovations in editorial processes, and science-society interactions, particularly open science and public trust in science.

Marcel Verweij is a professor of philosophical ethics and director of the Ethics Institute at Utrecht University. He has held previous positions in Wageningen, Amsterdam, and Nijmegen. Marcel’s research is focusing on ethics in public health, and he is involved in advisory work at Zorginstituut (adviescommissie pakket), Gezondheidsraad, RIVM and the Advisory Committee on Public Health Emergencies of the European Commission.

Claudia Pallise Perello – PhD Candidate at the Department of Ethics, Law and Humanities of Amsterdam UMC

Claudia is a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam UMC with a background in biomedicine, public health, and bioethics. Her research explores the role of epistemic injustice in the fields of research ethics (RE) and research integrity (RI), combining empirical and theoretical approaches to identify and address these injustices. She is involved in two EU-funded projects: PREPARED, which will develop an operational ethics and integrity framework to safeguard ethical values during crises, and irecs, which aims to develop and implement training on the ethical issues of emerging technologies. Claudia also teaches in the research integrity course at Amsterdam UMC and in the Master’s program in Philosophy, Bioethics, and Health at the VU Amsterdam.

Gerben ter Riet MD PhD is a clinical epidemiologist with a keen interest in topics at the intersection of methodology and research integrity. He currently works for the University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam, Faculty of Health, Sport & Exercise (AUAS-FHSE). He has a 0.05 appointment at AUMC (Dept. Cardiology). His main focus is transparent reporting and acknowledgment of study limitations, selective outcome reporting and open science methods. In his role as CEO of a small business at the intersection of methodology and research integrity, Soscientry, he chaired the Research Ethics Committee of the University of Applied Sciences in Rotterdam between 2021 and 2023. Gerben is currently a member of the Committee for Research Integrity at AUAS. In 2019, he co-founded the Open Science Support Desk at the AUAS, Faculty of Health, Sport & Exercise.

He was co-project leader of the National Survey of Research Integrity in the Netherlands. Finally, he actively supports Scientist Rebellion in their struggle to speed up implementation of effective climate policies, avert ecological breakdown and bring about climate justice. At AUAS-FHSE, he is project leader Circularity (program Sustainability).

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 such matters as research priority areas, interdisciplinary research initiatives, cooperation with public and private partners, research integrity and ethics. He is also the scientific secretary of the University Research Advisory Council. Next to his work for the Executive Staff, Niek is a part-time faculty member for ethics of economics and business at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Amsterdam.

Niek obtained an MBA (Bentley University, USA), a PhD in the Philosophy of Religion (Faculty of Humanities, Utrecht University), an Advanced Master in Theology and Religious Studies (K.U.Leuven, Belgium), a Master in Theology/Ethics (Utrecht University), and a degree in Ministerial Education (PThU, the Netherlands).

Niek has worked as a policy advisor at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, and at the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the Hague. Before becoming a part-time faculty member at the Faculty of Economics and Business at UvA, Niek was a (guest) lecturer at the Rotterdam School of Management, Utrecht University and Bentley University.

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 in 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 79 PhD students, of whom to date 17 were appointed as professor. He is the founding chair of the World Conferences on Research Integrity Foundation.

Dr. Blom has a biomedical background with a focus on epidemiology, communication and policy making. After defending her thesis on periconceptional folic acid supplementation, she coordinated NRIN. Fenneke continued working in the field of research integrity as postdoc on the INSPIRE project and the VIRT2UE project, in which she develops online training and trains trainers to train virtue-based ethics and integrity training. At the HAN University of Applied Sciences she now works as a senior researcher on the TETRIAS project, designing tailored training for researchers in UASs. Fenneke is an experienced moral case deliberation moderator and has (re)designed the Research Integrity courses and training materials for various institutions.

Ton Hol is Emeritus Professor Encyclopedia of Law and Philosophy of Law at Utrecht University. From 2003 to 2021, he was chairman of the Scientific Integrity Committee at this university. Additionally, he was chairman of the Scientific Integrity Committee of Tilburg University and was one of the authors of the Dutch Code of Conduct for Scientific Integrity of 2018. He is interim-chair of the Scientific Integrity Committee of the University of Amsterdam. He chaired the Policy Group Research Integrity of the League of European Research Universities (LERU). Furthermore, Ton is still active as a judge.

Frits Rosendaal is professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Chair of the department at Leiden University Medical Center. His research is mainly in cardiovascular disease, notably blood coagulation. He is co-chair of the Committee on Scientific Integrity of Leiden University and Leiden University Medical Center, member of the LERU Policy Group on Scientific Integrity and member of Council of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) as well as member of the Central Committee on Research involving Human Subjects (CCMO).

Evert van Leeuwen (1954) is emeritus professor in Medical Ethics. He studied philosophy and worked from 1982 in ethics and philosophy of medicine at the VU in Amsterdam. In 2007 he went to the Radboud University in Nijmegen. At the VU he organized, in the early nineties of the last century, courses in ethics and philosophy of science in which scientific integrity and publication strategy played a role. In Nijmegen he organized with his colleague Van der Wilt a course in scientific integrity, with special attention to the interactions between senior and junior scientists. At present he is chair of the national research program on pluripotent stem cells (Psider) as well of two foundations in psychiatry and psychiatry and philosophy. He is also serving in ethics advisory boards and moderator on a EU level in several programs.

Anthonie Meijers is emeritus professor in philosophy and ethics of technology at Eindhoven University of Technology, where he worked for 20 years. He has a double background in philosophy and engineering and has been active in scientific integrity for many years. At Eindhoven he has been the chair of the complaint committee on scientific integrity, the confidential officer for scientific integrity, as well as the chair of the board on scientific integrity advising the executive board on policy issues. He strongly believes that scientific integrity is not just an individual responsibility, but also a responsibility of (research) institutions to create the right research culture. At present he is the confidential officer for scientific integrity at the Dutch Research Council (NWO).