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Costas Charitidis

  • Name person: Costas Charitidis
  • Function description: Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering of NTUA and Director of RNanoLab
  • Organisation: School of Chemical Engineering of NTUA
  • Location - country: Greece
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  • Short teaser text: Extensive R&D experience through collaborations with international research centres
  • Full text: He has extensive R&D experience through collaborations with international research centres in the context of more than 60 projects funded by the European Commission and National funds, in many of them as Coordinator. He is a referee in International scientific journals, evaluator & scientific advisor of R&D projects. He is the author of several scientific books, chapters in international textbooks, and more than 400 scientific publications in peer-reviewed international journals and conference proceedings and his work has received ~7800 citations (h-index 44).

Lex Bouter (Chair)

  • Name person: Lex Bouter
  • Function description: Emeritus Professor of Methodology and Integrity
  • Organisation: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Amsterdam University Medical Centers
  • Location - country: The Netherlands
  • Picture of person: Lex Bouter
  • Short teaser text: Lex Bouter is Professor Emeritus of Methodology and Integrity at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Amsterdam University Medical Centers.
  • Full text: Lex Bouter obtained a MSc degree in Medical Biology at Utrecht University and joined Maastricht University in 1984, where he was trained as an epidemiologist and obtained his PhD.  In 1988 he published a textbook on epidemiology, the seventh revised Dutch edition of which appeared in 2016 and the first English edition in 2018. In 1992, he took up a tenured position as Professor of Epidemiology in Amsterdam. From 2006 until 2013 he was Rector Magnificus of his university.Subsequently, Professor Bouter prepared for a return to science during a sabbatical leave. In 2014 his tenured professorship was broadened to Methodology and Integrity. He is currently involved in teaching and research regarding responsible conduct of research, questionable research practices and research misconduct. In 2017, Professor Bouter organized and Co-chaired the 5th World Conference on Research Integrity in Amsterdam, the 6th World Conference on Research Integrity in Hong Kong in 2019, the 7th World Conference on Research Integrity in Cape Town in 2022, and is chair of the World Conferences on Research Integrity Foundation.
  • External link: https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/lex-bouter
  • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexbouter/?originalSubdomain=nl
  • Bio link: https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/lex-bouter
  • Youtube movie: https://youtu.be/PTP5Cd4-7YY

Maura Hiney

  • Name person: Maura Hiney
  • Function description: Adjunct Professor
  • Organisation: University College Dublin, Institute for Discovery
  • Location - country: Ireland
  • Picture of person: Maura Hiney
  • Short teaser text: Dr Maura Hiney is a qualified nurse, has a PhD in Molecular Epizootology and Diagnostics, and has worked as both a researcher and Head of the Research Office at the National University of Ireland Galway.
  • Full text: Maura is currently Head of International Cooperation, Evaluation and Targeted Programmes Health Research Board Ireland, which manages the HRB’s targeted funding portfolio to support health-relevant policy and practice-related research. The unit also conducts evaluations of funded programmes on an ongoing basis, develops and promotes policies for health research best practices, and hosts the National Delegate for Health, National Contact Point for Health for EC Framework Programmes, and the National Focal Point for the EU4Health Programme.Maura has a long-time interest in research Integrity (RI) and has been influential in raising awareness of RI issues in Ireland since 2007. She was deeply involved in establishing the National Forum on Research Integrity and developing a national RI policy framework for broad adoption. Internationally, Maura was, until recently, co-chair of the European Network of RI Offices (ENRIO), chair of the Science Europe Working Group on RI and was a key contributor to the European Competitiveness Council Conclusions on RI in 2015 on behalf of the Luxembourg Presidency.  She is currently chair of the All European Academies (ALLEA) Permanent Working Group on Science and Ethics, with whom she coordinated a revision of the European Code of Conduct on RI, launched by Commissioner Moedas in March 2017. She sits on the Policy Advisory Boards of several EU-funded SwafS projects that conduct research on various elements of ethics and RI, and is a partner on the SOPs4RI project, which is developing a suite of SOPs and guidelines for managing good research practices and RI promotion plan guidelines for adoption in the grant agreements in Horizon Europe.