Anna Abalkina

• Name person: Anna Abalkina
• Function description: Research Fellow
• Organisation: Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
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• Short teaser text: Anna is a research fellow at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
• Full text: Dr. Anna Abalkina is a research fellow at Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). Her research focuses on corruption in higher education, academic misconduct, plagiarism, and predatory and hijacked journals, as well as on explaining their costs and consequences. In 2022, Anna Abalkina, in collaboration with Retraction Watch, created The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker,” a regularly updated list of hijacked journals. She also studies paper mills in different roles: as a researcher, a sleuth, and a member of United2Act working groups. She received Nature’s 10 award in 2024 for her work on exposing fraud.

Carmen Penido

• Name person: Carmen Penido
• Function description: Researcher
• Organisation: Centre for Technological Development in Health/Institute of Drug Technology
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• Short teaser text: Carmen is a researcher at the Centre for Technological Development in Health/Institute of Drug Technology, at Fiocruz, Brazil.
• Full text: Carmen Penido has a PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology and is a researcher at the Centre for Technological Development in Health/Institute of Drug Technology, at Fiocruz, Brazil. Carmen is a faculty member engaged in intra- and extramural teaching and research regarding Research Integrity. Chair of the Research Integrity Committee at Fiocruz, Board member of the Brazilian Reproducibility Network, former member of the Institutional Review Board at UFRJ, co-chair of the Program Committees for the VI and VII Brazilian Meeting on Research Integrity, Science and Publication Ethics (BRISPE), and member of the International Advisory Committee of the 8th WCRI.
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carmen-penido-5ba628112/

Chien Chou

• Name person: Chien Chou
• Function description: Chair Professor, Senior Vice President, and Chief Ethics Officer
• Organisation: National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
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• Short teaser text: Chien is Chair Professor, Senior Vice President, and Chief Ethics Officer at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
• Full text: Dr. Chien Chou earned her Ph.D. in Instructional Design and Technology from The Ohio State University, USA. She is currently Chair Professor, Senior Vice President, and Chief Ethics Officer at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. Her research interests include e-learning, digital literacy and ethics, and integrity education. She has made significant contributions to the promotion of research integrity in Taiwan's research community and higher education, including establishing a national RCR curriculum, formulating relevant policies and regulations, implementing education and training systems, and handling misconduct cases. She is the recipient of the Ministry of Education’s Academic Award (2023) and the National Excellent Teacher Award (2025).
• Bio link: https://education.nycu.edu.tw/en/cchou/

Chris Graf

• Name person: Chris Graf
• Function description: Research Integrity Director at Springer Nature
• Organisation: Springer Nature
• Location - country: United Kingdom
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• Short teaser text: Chris Graf is the Research Integrity Director at Springer Nature and Chair of the World Conference on Research Integrity Foundation Governing Board.
• Full text: Chris Graf is the Research Integrity Director at Springer Nature, in charge of leading the continued development and implementation of Springer Nature’s research integrity strategy, leading a team accountable for assuring the highest standards for research integrity in all of Springer Nature’s publications, working with many good colleagues inside Springer Nature and with many good academic partners outside Springer Nature. Chris also serves the publishing sector with a voluntary role at the STM Association, the global trade association for academic and professional publishers, where he chairs a committee of senior publishing industry executives overseeing governance of the STM Integrity Hub, and the STM Research Integrity Committee. In 2023 Chris was appointed to a position as committee member of the UK Committee on Research Integrity, a new organisation hosted by UKRI, that promotes research integrity across the UK and internationally.

De Ming Chau

• Name person: De Ming Chau
• Function description: Senior Lecturer
• Organisation: Universiti Putra
• Location - country: Malaysia
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• Short teaser text: De-Ming is a senior lecturer from the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia.
• Full text: Dr. De-Ming Chau is a senior lecturer from the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia. He is the co-founder of the Young Scientists Network-Academy of Sciences Malaysia (YSN-ASM) Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Programme, and a member of the National Committee on Research Integrity of Malaysia. He is also a governing board member of the World Conference on Research Integrity. De-Ming has led the Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN) RCR Project and the YSN-ASM Science Integrity Working Group.

Gowri Gopalakrishna

• Name person: Gowri Gopalakrishna
• Function description: Assistant Professor Research Integrity and Epidemiology
• Organisation: Maastricht University
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• Short teaser text: Gowri is an epidemiologist and public health scientist with expertise in research integrity, open science, and responsible conduct of research.
• Full text: Dr. Gowri Gopalakrishna is an epidemiologist and public health scientist with expertise in research integrity, open science, and responsible conduct of research. She led the Dutch National Survey on Research Integrity, one of the most comprehensive studies globally on research misconduct and questionable research practices. Currently, she coordinates efforts around research integrity and certification of journals in Elsevier with a research affiliation at Maastricht University where she conducts empirical research on issues of research integrity. She has also contributed to advisory bodies and international guideline development, promoting transparency, equity, and reproducibility in research.

Jennifer Byrne

• Name person: Jennifer Byrne
• Function description: Director of Biobanking
• Organisation: NSW Health Pathology
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• Short teaser text: Jennifer is Director of Biobanking-New South Wales Health, and Professor of Molecular Oncology at the University of Sydney, Australia.
• Full text: Jennifer Byrne is Director of Biobanking-New South Wales Health, and Professor of Molecular Oncology at the University of Sydney, Australia, where she leads the PRIMeR group (Publication and Research Integrity in Medical Research). Jennifer was one of Nature’s 10 people in 2017 for highlighting repetitive human gene research papers with critical reagent errors, and she was one of 3 experts who testified before US Congress at their 2022 congressional hearing into paper mills and research misconduct. Jennifer holds the Australian Academy of Science’s Professor David Vaux Research Integrity Fellowship award for 2025-2026.

Jonas Åkerman

• Name person: Jonas Åkerman
• Function description: Research Integrity and Ethics Coordinator
• Organisation: Stockholm University
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• Short teaser text: Jonas Åkerman is Research Integrity and Ethics Coordinator at Stockholm University (Office of Research, Engagement and Innovation Services).
• Full text: Jonas Åkerman is docent (≈associate professor) in philosophy. He currently works as Research Integrity and Ethics Coordinator at Stockholm University (Office of Research, Engagement and Innovation Services). He was co-chair of EARMA’s Ethics and Research Integrity Officers Network (ERION) 2018-2022 and has been member and secretary of the expert group on ethics within the Association of Swedish Higher Education Institutions since 2019. He is the author of the Swedish Research Council’s guidance document Good Research Practice (2024) and has been involved in several EU-funded projects and initiatives on research integrity and ethics.
• External link: https://www.su.se/english/profiles/joke1268-1.184242
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonas-%C3%A5kerman-a30a7b190/

Jonathan Soeharno

• Name person: Jonathan Soeharno
• Function description: Professor of Administration of Justice and Legal Philosophy
• Organisation: University of Amsterdam
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• Short teaser text: Jonathan is full professor of administration of justice and legal philosophy at the University of Amsterdam.
• Full text: Jonathan Soeharno (PhD, LLM, LLB in law; MA, BA in theology and MA, BA in philosophy) is full professor of administration of justice and legal philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. He is also a practicing lawyer, (deputy) judge) and former senator. Soeharno has specific expertise on scientific integrity. He currently chairs the Academic Integrity Committee of The Dutch Research Council (NWO) and chaired the UvA Committee for Scientific Integrity. After having been part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) evaluation committee, he forms part of the current (re)writing committee of the Dutch Scientific Integrity Code.

Julia Priess-Buchheit

• Name person: Julia Priess-Buchheit
• Function description: CEO and Scientific Director
• Organisation: Zentrum für Konstruktive Erziehungswissenschaft (Centre for Constructive Educational Science)
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• Short teaser text: Julia leads the Zentrum für Konstruktive Erziehungswissenschaft (Centre for Constructive Educational Science) and conducts research at Kiel University.
• Full text: 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 study programs at Coburg University. She coordinates major EU-funded projects on responsible conduct of research, 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.

Kirsten Hüttemann

• Name person: Kirsten Hüttemann
• Function description: Legal expert with focus on research integrity.
• Organisation: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)
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• Short teaser text: Kirsten Hüttemann is a lawyer at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation).
• Full text: Kirsten Hüttemann is a lawyer at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation). Dr. Kirsten Hüttemann is a legal expert at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) with a particular focus on research integrity. She also conducts training sessions and workshops on good research practice. In the context of the DFG's funding activities, she is responsible for managing and overseeing procedures concerning scientific misconduct from a legal point of view. She also provides support for the DFG’s statutory bodies on related matters. As a member of international working groups, she has contributed to the development of guidelines and recommendations on this topic at European level.

Klaas Sijtsma

• Name person: Klaas Sijtsma
• Function description: Co-chair of the Committee on Research Integrity
• Organisation: Erasmus University Rotterdam
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• Short teaser text: Klaas is the co-chair of the Committee on Research Integrity of Erasmus University Rotterdam.
• Full text: Klaas Sijtsma is a statistician, with a specialization in psychometrics. His research has resulted in a few hundred articles in renowned journals such as Psychometrika and Psychological Methods, and three monographs. In addition, he publishes about research integrity and questionable research practices as well as policy discouraging such practices. Recently, Klaas has published a monograph called Never Waste a Good Crisis: Lessons Learned from Data Fraud and Questionable Research Practices. As Dean and Rector Magnificus at Tilburg University, Klaas has managed a few notorious research integrity fraud cases. Currently, Klaas is the co-chair of the Committee on Research Integrity of Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Li Tang

• Name person: Li Tang
• Function description: Professor of Public Policy
• Organisation: Fudan University
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• Short teaser text: Li is a Professor of Public Policy at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University in Shanghai, China
• Full text: Li Tang is a Professor of Public Policy at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University in Shanghai, China. Her research focuses on research integrity, science and innovation policy, and program evaluation. Her work has been published in leading journals, including Science and Nature. She currently serves as an Associate Editors of Quantitative Science Studies, Technological Forecasting and Social Change.
• Bio link: https://faculty.fudan.edu.cn/tangli/zh_CN/index.htm

Limbanazo Matandika

• Name person: Limbanazo Matandika
• Function description: Vice Chairperson Elect
• Organisation: African Research Integrity Network
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• Short teaser text: Limbanazo is a bioethicist and social scientist serving as Vice Chairperson Elect of the African Research Integrity Network.
• Full text: Limbanazo Mindiera Matandika, PhD, is a bioethicist and social scientist serving as Vice Chairperson Elect of the African Research Integrity Network. She co-founded Africa’s first network on responsible research conduct and has contributed to advancing research integrity across Africa and globally. Dr. Matandika holds a PhD in Bioethics, an MScoSci in Health Research Ethics, and an MPH. She is a Lecturer in Bioethics/Social Science at the Kamuzu University of Health Science, Research Integrity Ambassador for Malawi, and guest editor with the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. Her research interests include authorship, conflict of interest, equitable partnerships, decolonization of global health.

Malcolm Macleod

• Name person: Malcolm Macleod
• Function description: Professor of Neurology and Translational Neuroscience
• Organisation: University of Edinburgh
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• Short teaser text: Malcolm is Professor of Neurology and Translational Neurosciences and co-director of Edinburgh Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh.
• Full text: Malcolm Macleod is Professor of Neurology and Translational Neurosciences and co-director of Edinburgh Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh.  He co-founded the Collaborative Approach to Meta-Analysis and Review of Animal Data from Experimental Studies (CAMARADES) in 2005, and since then he has been at the forefront of the application of evidence synthesis tools to pre-clinical research. This has included using systematic approaches to selecting drugs; Living Systematic Reviews; evidence synthesis. He was an author on the Lancet Series on Research Waste, spends a day a week as an NHS Neurologist, and is a keen runner. Most of 'his' success can be attributed in large part to the work of others.
• Bio link: https://edwebprofiles.ed.ac.uk/profile/professor-malcolm-macleod

Mohammad Hosseini

• Name person: Mohammad Hosseini
• Function description: Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine (Biostatistics and Informatics)
• Organisation: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
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• Short teaser text: Mohammad is an Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine (Biostatistics and Informatics) at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
• Full text: Mohammad Hosseini is an Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine (Biostatistics and Informatics) at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. His work focuses on research ethics, AI ethics, and open science. He is a member of the Global Young Academy, serves as an editor for Accountability in Research and the Research Ethics Forum book series, and is a member of Springer Nature’s US Research Advisory Council and Advarra’s AI Ethics Council. As a researcher and educator, he advocates for the responsible use of AI in science, helping researchers anticipate risks, uphold integrity, and consider societal impacts.

Nancy Chescheir

• Name person: Nancy Chescheir
• Function description: Chair of COPE
• Organisation: Committee on Publication Ethics
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• Short teaser text: Nancy Chescheir is the Chair of COPE.
• Full text: Nancy Chescheir is the Chair of COPE. She is an emeritus professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has served as Editor-in-Chief of two journals, Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproducitive, Female and Child Health. She has a career-long interest in the way complex systems work and how they try to maintain themselves. This started with human physiology and has extended now to publication ethics.

Paula Saner

• Name person: Paula Saner
• Function description: Research Integrity Manager
• Organisation: University of Cape Town
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• Short teaser text: Paula Saner is the Research Integrity Manager at the University of Cape Town’s Office of Research Integrity.
• Full text: Paula Saner is the Research Integrity Manager at the University of Cape Town’s Office of Research Integrity. She holds master’s degrees in Classics and Higher Education Studies from UCT and is a certified VIRT2UE RI trainer. Paula coordinates ORI operations, liaises with government stakeholders, advises Senate-level Ethics Committees, and leads UCT’s responsible conduct of research programme. She supports the UCT community on research integrity queries and ensures policy robustness. Paula has actively contributed to the 7th and 8th World Conferences on Research Integrity and is pursuing a PhD on research integrity in research-intensive African universities at Maastricht University.

Rachael Gooberman-Hill

• Name person: Rachael Gooberman-Hill
• Function description: Co-chair
• Organisation: UK Committee on Research Integrity
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• Short teaser text: Rachael is Professor of Health and Anthropology at the University of Bristol, and Co-Chair of the UK Committee on Research Integrity.
• Full text: Rachael Gooberman-Hill is Professor of Health and Anthropology at the University of Bristol, and Co-Chair of the UK Committee on Research Integrity. She leads interdisciplinary research on pain, intervention development and evaluation, health technology, and clinical decision-making. She has led initiatives to improve processes that underpin high-quality research, including in funding processes and career development. Through her role on the UK Committee on Research Integrity, she promotes a research system grounded in the five principles set out in the UK’s Concordat to Support Research Integrity: rigour; transparency and open communication; honesty; care and respect; and accountability.

Renee Hoch

• Name person: Renee Hoch
• Function description: Head of Publication Ethics
• Organisation: PLOS
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• Short teaser text: Renee is the Head of Publication Ethics at PLOS.
• Full text: Renee is the Head of Publication Ethics at PLOS. She has a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology, and before specializing in publication ethics she conducted research in developmental genetics, cell signaling, and neuroscience, and served as a staff editor for PLOS One. Renee is a member of COPE Council and has contributed to several cross-industry initiatives addressing publication ethics issues, including with COPE, STM, FORCE11, NASEM, and United2Act. She has authored articles and blog posts discussing integrity and editorial policy issues, and co-authored industry guidance on addressing paper mills, data ethics, and other publication ethics issues.

Serge Horbach

• Name person: Serge Horbach
• Function description: Assistant Professor
• Organisation: Radboud University
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• Short teaser text: Serge is an assistant professor at the Institute for Science in Society, Radboud University, the Netherlands.
• Full text: Serge P.J.M. Horbach is an assistant professor at the Institute for Science in Society, Radboud University, the Netherlands. With a background in mathematics, he obtained his PhD in sociology of science, studying research integrity and editorial peer review practices. His main research interests including scholarly communication, particularly innovations in editorial peer review practices, and science-society interactions, particularly open science and public trust in science. He is currently one of the PIs of the DISAPEER project, studying how developments in interdisciplinarity, automation and public representation are affecting matters of expertise and identity in editorial practices and procedures.
• Bio link: https://www.ru.nl/personen/horbach-s

Tamarinde Haven

• Name person: Tamarinde Haven
• Function description: Assistant Professor in Research Methodology
• Organisation: Tilburg University
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• Short teaser text: Tamarinde is an Assistant Professor in Research Methodology at Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
• Full text: Tamarinde Haven is an Assistant Professor in Research Methodology at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. She has a background in psychology, philosophy, and epidemiology. Her PhD focused on fostering a responsible research climate to support research integrity. Tamarinde conducted postdoctoral research at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, where she began developing the concept of responsible supervision—an area for which she received a Rubicon grant. She recently received a VENI grant to strengthen methodological rigour in mixed methods research. Tamarinde is part of the EC-funded iRISE (improving Reproducibility In SciencE) consortium and a steering committee member of the Dutch Reproducibility Network
• Bio link: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4702-2472

Willie Koh

• Name person: Willie Koh
• Function description: Director of the Research Integrity & Ethics Office
• Organisation: Nanyang Technological University
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• Short teaser text: Willie Koh is the Director of the Research Integrity & Ethics Office at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
• Full text: Dr Willie Koh is the Director of the Research Integrity & Ethics Office at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, where he leads initiatives in research governance and the proper conduct of research. He is dedicated to strengthening institutional frameworks that uphold research integrity, data management, and regulatory compliance, ensuring NTU remains at the forefront of responsible and trustworthy science. With a strong track record in shaping policies and guiding best practices, he plays a central role in supporting faculty, researchers, and students in building a culture of trust in research. Dr Koh’s background is in the life sciences, with a PhD in Virology from University College London and a B.Sc from the National University of Singapore.