German Council on Foreign Relations Georgios Kolliarakis is an advisor for research strategy at DGAP. He serves as the principal investigator of the EU’s MEDEA (“Mediterranean Practitioners’ Network Capacity Building for Effective Response to Emerging Security Challenges”) and of the pilot Preparatory Action on Defence Research SOLOMON (“Strategy-Oriented anaLysis Of the Market fOrces in EU defeNse”). Kolliarakis has more than 15 Read more about Georgios Kolliarakis[…]

Aerospace Center Project Management Agency, Germany Nina Braun is National Contact Point Society/ Cluster2 and/ or Net4Society Project Coordinator. Nina Braun has worked at the German Aerospace Center Project Management Agency (DLR-PT) since 2009, where she coordinates the international network of National Contact Points for Societal Challenge 6 (SC6) —“Europe in a changing world: inclusive, Read more about Nina Braun[…]

The Vrije University Brussel, Belgium John Pearson is Policy Officer for Ethics and Research Integrity at the Vrije University Brussel. He has previously been involved in Framework Programme projects on Responsible Research and Innovation. 

University of Copenhagen, Denmark Mathias W. Nielsen is an associate professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a sociologist by training and holds a Ph.D. in social science from Aarhus University. Nielsen’s research focuses on career trajectories and social stratification in the science system. 

Aarhus University, Denmark Niels Mejlgaard is professor of political science and associate dean at the School of Business and Social Science at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is interested in research policy and practice and the interactions between science and society. He has been involved in several collaborative projects about responsible research and innovation.

Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Eileen Focke-Bakker is a sociologist of non-western countries with a major in education. She has lived and worked in many countries across the world teaching and supporting schools in new areas. She has worked in various roles and across many sectors at Delft University of Technology (DUT) and Read more about Eileen Focke-Bakker[…]

Center for Social Innovation, Austria  Katharina Handler is working as researcher and project manager at ZSI.  She studied sociology at the University of Vienna and is involved in research and co-ordination projects, mainly covering participation, social inclusion and science communication. She is experienced in working with qualitative, quantitative and participatory methods and also in the Read more about Katharina Handler[…]

Arizona State University, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, USA Erik Fisher is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University’s School for the Future of Innovation in Society within the College of Global Futures, where he directs the Center for Responsible Innovation. He also serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Responsible Innovation. Fisher studies Read more about Erik Fisher[…]

United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) April Tash is an international lawyer, specialist in comparative public policy and law in the staff of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) with a doctorate in law from Columbia University, of New York, USA. She is currently the focal point for the Programme on the Recommendation Read more about April Tash[…]

Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering, Germany Martina Schraudner heads the Center for Responsible Research and Innovation of the Fraunhofer IAO and has been on the board of acatech- Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften e.V. since January 2018. After studying biology and biotechnology and obtaining her doctorate at the Technical University of Munich, she held various positions at the Gesellschaft für Umwelt und Gesundheitsforschung München (gsf), Read more about Martina Schraudner[…]