Liette Vasseur,

Professor, Brock University

Dr. Vasseur is a full professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Brock University where she is also a member of the Environmental Sustainability Research Centre. Since 2014, she holds the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Chair on Community Sustainability: From Local to Global at Brock. Her research program is highly interdisciplinary and links issues such as community-based ecosystem management, climate change adaptation and resilience, and sustainable agriculture. Her research program is not only in Canada, but also in China, where she is a visiting scholar at Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, in Ecuador, and in West Africa, mainly in Burkina Faso and Senegal. She is also involved in women in Science (STEM) and former president of the Canadian Coalition for Women in Engineering, Science, Trades and Technology. She is President of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO. She also is the vice-chair for North America Region of the Commission for Ecosystem Management at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and leads the thematic group on Ecosystem Governance.

Mylène Deschênes,

Directrice des affaires éthiques et juridiques, aux Fonds de recherche du Québec

Mylène Deschênes est directrice des affaires éthiques et juridiques, aux Fonds de recherche du Québec.  Elle conseille le Scientifique en chef du Québec et les Fonds de recherche du Québec en ce qui a trait à l’éthique de la recherche, l’éthique organisationnelle, l’intégrité scientifique et les affaires juridiques. Parmi ses dossiers actuels, elle travaille sur la mise à jour de la Politique de diffusion en libre accès des FRQ, ainsi que la Politique sur la Conduite responsable en recherche des FRQ. 

Elle est diplômée de l’Université McGill en droit (civil et Common law) et détient une maitrise de l’Université de Montréal, axe «droit, biotechnologies et sociétés». 

Vincent Larivière

Professor, Information Science, Université de Montréal; Associate Vice-President (planning and communications), Université de Montréal; Canada Research Chair, Transformations of Scholarly Communication, Université de Montréal

Vincent Larivière holds the Canada Research Chair on the Transformations of Scholarly Communication at the Université de Montréal, where he is professor of information science and associate vice-president (planning and communications). He is also scientific director of the Érudit journal platform, associate scientific director of the Observatoire des sciences et des technologies (OST) and member of the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST). His research focuses on 1) science policies and characteristics of research systems, 2) transformations, in the digital world, of the modes of production and dissemination of scientific knowledge, 3) diversity and equity in science.

Dylan Roskams-Edris

Open Science Alliance Officer for the Tanenbaum Open Science Institute, The Neuro

Dylan is the Open Science Alliance Officer for the Tanenbaum Open Science Institute at The Neuro. As Alliance Officer, Dylan interfaces with the national and international neuroscience research community, funders, and policy makers to promote the uptake of open science. Using his background studying neuroscience, health ethics, and intellectual property, Dylan advocates for openness, collaboration, and transparency from the earliest fundamental studies to the translation of discoveries into innovations.

Laura Rovelli, PhD

Representing the Latin American Forum for Research Assessment (FOLEC), from the Latin American Council of Social sciences (CLACSO)

Laura Rovelli is a political scientist and PhD in Social Science from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Adjunct researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and faculty at La Plata National University (UNLP) in Argentina. She coordinates the Latin American Forum for Research Assessment (FOLEC) from the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) and is a member of the Advisory Board of DORA. Recently, co-authored with Dominique Babini, the book “Recent trends in open science and open access in scientific policies in Ibero- America” and has been an observer on behalf of CLACSO at the UNESCO intergovernmental meeting to elaborate a draft Recommendation on Open Science. At present, is conducting at FOLEC a research project funded by the IDRC and called: "Research quality and allocation of research funds in the Global South: “Research assessment in change: inclusivity in science systems and mission-oriented projects in research funding initiatives from theGlobal South. Reshaping quality evaluation through grounded and progressive methodologies.

Kaitlin Thaney

Executive Director of Invest in Open Infrastructure

Kaitlin Thaney is the Executive Director of Invest in Open Infrastructure, a nonprofit initiative dedicated to increasing investment, adoption, and sustainability of open infrastructure for research and scholarship. Her career has been centered around open infrastructure organizations; helping organizations including Creative Commons, Digital Science, Mozilla, and Wikimedia think strategically about program design, participatory engagement, and sustainability.

Sonya Dumanis, PhD

Deputy Director of Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s

Dr. Sonya Dumanis is the Deputy Director of Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s, a research funding initiative that coordinates targeted basic research and resources to uncover the roots of Parkinson’s disease.

Previously, Dr. Dumanis was the Vice President of Research and Innovation at the Epilepsy Foundation. While there, she oversaw the growth of the Epilepsy Therapy Project, an entrepreneurship incubator providing seed funding and mentorship to epilepsy startups, launched the Epilepsy Innovation Institute, an innovation incubator tackling high risk projects in the epilepsy space, and supported early career research development through the Next Generation Programs. Dr. Dumanis has been with the Epilepsy Foundation since 2016. Prior to joining the Epilepsy Foundation, she worked at the Milken Institute Center for Strategic Philanthropy, tasked with identifying key philanthropic opportunities poised to have a transformative impact on the state of research and developing research programs.

Dr. Dumanis completed her postdoctoral training at both the Johns Hopkins University and the Max-Delbrück Center in Berlin, Germany. She earned her PhD in neuroscience from Georgetown University. She has authored numerous scientific articles and received a number of honors, including an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, a National Science Foundation fellowship, a national research service award from the National Institutes of Health, the Harold N Glassman Award for best science dissertation at Georgetown University, and the Mark A. Smith prize from the Journal of Neurochemistry. Dr. Dumanis has demonstrated a strong commitment to science outreach, developing several educational initiatives such as the Georgetown Medical Center Graduate Student Research Grants program and the Epilepsy Foundation / Danny Did startup accelerator course.

Victoria Tsoukala

Policy Officer in the European Commission, Directorate General for Research & Innovation

Victoria Tsoukala is a Policy Officer in the European Commission, Directorate General for Research & Innovation since 2016 in secondment from the National Documentation Centre in Athens, Greece. In the Commission she works on the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies in open science. Most recently she has been working on the new open science policy of Horizon Europe, the new R&I framework programme of the European Commission for 2021-2027 and on the new publishing platform of the Commission, Open Research Europe. She holds a PhD and MA in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology from Bryn Mawr College, PA, USA; and a BA in History and Archaeology at Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece.