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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
