Theme: Open Science in the Light of Geopolitical Polarization
Where: Berlin, Harnack House
When: November 10 (start: 9:30) to November 11 (end: 12:00)
Format: Hybrid including a livestream
Language: English
Registration: Participation in person and online is possible. Find more information here!
Speakers: See the full list here.
Program 2025
Speakers
Prof. Dr. John P.A. Ioannidis
Professor in Disease Prevention, and Professor of Medicine, of Health Research and Policy, of Biomedical Data Science, and of Statistics at Stanford University
Prof. Dr. Ioannidis, a highly reputed physician-scientist trained at Harvard and Tufts, is a leading voice in meta-research and Open Science. Previously served as President of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology, Senior Advisor for Knowledge Integration at the National Cancer Institute (NIH), editorial board member of 30 leading international journals, and Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Clinical Investigation. He co-founded the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS) and the Meta-Research Innovation Center Berlin (METRIC-B), advancing the quality of scientific studies by creating multidisciplinary working groups. METRICS main focus areas are a wide range of stakeholders, including methods, reporting, evaluation, reproducibility, and incentives.
Dr. Johannes Fritsch
Head of Office of the Joint Committee on the Handling of Security-Relevant Research
After receiving his doctorate from the Institute of Microbiology at Humboldt University, Dr. Fritsch acted as a scientific officer in the Presidential Office of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in Berlin. There, he primarily supported the working groups of molecular and, microbiology, genetic engineering regulation, and the ethics of science. Since 2015, he has served as the head of the office of the Joint Committee on the Handling of Security-Relevant Research of the DFG and Leopoldina, and co-authored “Scientific Freedom and Scientific Responsibility”, recommendations for handling security-relevant research.
Jeroen Sondervan
Program Leader in Open Scholarly Communication (Open Science NL)
Jeroen Sondervan has 18 years of experience in Open Access and Open Science, beginning his career in academic publishing with Amsterdam University Press and Brill. Since 2015, he has been driving initiatives to promote open scholarly practices, first as a publishing consultant at Utrecht University Library and later as program leader in Utrecht University’s Open Science Program. In his current role at Open Science NL, he leads efforts in open scholarly communication, focusing on open access, open peer review, open research information, and innovative approaches to scholarly publishing.
Dr. Kamran Naim
Head of Open Science at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
Dr. Kamran Naim is the Head of Open Science at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), where he brings over 20 years of international leadership experience as an Open Science strategist. At the world’s largest research laboratory, Dr. Naim leads the development, implementation, and governance of Open Science policies, while also overseeing flagship initiatives, such as the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) – the world’s largest open-access publishing collaboration. He also serves as a Director of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Association, where he works to support the development of next-generation infrastructures and technologies to support European science and innovation. Before joining CERN, he served as Director of Partnerships & Initiatives at Annual Reviews and has pioneered equitable collective models for Open Access.
Dr. Mathijs Vleugel
Head of the Helmholtz Open Science Office
Dr. Vleugel is the head of the Helmholtz Open Science Office, where he supports the Helmholtz Association, its research centers, and the wider research community in shaping the cultural change towards Open Science. He is currently also serving as the chair of the German National Chapter of the Coalition on Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA). Previously, worked as a science policy expert at the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA), where he coordinated the 2023 revision of the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity and contributed to policy statements on Open Science, research integrity, and research Assessment.
Melissa Harrison
Team Leader of Literature Services at EMBL-EBI
Melissa Harrison is Team Leader, Literature Services, at EMBL-EBI, managing Europe PMC and a data science team. She is a science graduate with a background in STM publishing, open science policy and implementation, and persistent identifier use and propagation through FAIR principles. Her team collaborates with biological data infrastructure providers across EMBL-EBI and ELIXIR and beyond to enhance linking between the literature and the data outputs that underpin scientific research. Melissa is Chair of JATS4R and contributes to the community via working groups, presentations, and developing JATS4R recommendations.
Dr. Stephanie Jurburg
Deputy Group Leader at Helmholz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ)
Dr. Jurburg will be the moderator of the Open Science Days 2025 panel discussion. She has been working in the Department of Applied Microbial Ecology at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research. Previously, she held postdoctoral positions at the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (sDiv) and at the Wageningen Bioveterinary Research Institute. She is also co-lead of the Open Science Working Group of the Global Young Academy and a member of the Leopoldina working group on the future of academic publishing in Germany.
Prof. Dr. Anna Ahlers
Founder and Head of the Lise Meitner Research Group at the MPI for the History of Science (MPIWG); Professor II at the University of Oslo
Since 2020, Anna L. Ahlers has been leading the Lise Meitner Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, studying China’s rapid rise in the global science system and the influence of political systems on scientific development. She also serves as Professor II at the University of Oslo, teaching courses on China as a geopolitical actor. Her current projects include Wi-Wi-Ko-China (2023-2026), which integrates research on China’s science system with German-European research collaboration. Her work spans science policy, governance, and global-local structures of science.
Dr. Annina Sofia Lattu
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Researcher, Tampere University, Visiting Scholar, Fudan University
Dr. Annina Sofia Lattu is a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Lise Meitner Research Group “China in the Global System of Science” at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, a Researcher at Tampere University, and a Visiting Scholar at the Nordic Center, Fudan University. Her postdoctoral research focuses on China’s Open Science development in the age of knowledge security.
Prof. Dr. Burçak Başbuğ
Professor of Statistics at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara; Expert in Disaster Risk Management and Policy Development
Prof. Dr. Başbuğ is backed by two decades of international experience across disaster risk management, disaster risk reduction, disaster risk financing, insurance, resilience, disaster and development, policy development, emergency management, humanitarian crisis, and statistical analysis. Renowned for her interdisciplinary approach to policy development and crisis response, she has shaped strategies that bridge research, practice, and governance. In her talk, she will explore how Open Science can inform the development of data policies during times of crisis, using the 2023 Kahramanmaras earthquake as an example.
Dr. Andrea Merloni
Senior Scientist, High-Energy Astrophysics
Dr. Merloni is a senior scientist of the High Energy Group of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) and a fellow of the Excellence Cluster “Origin and Structure of the Universe”. The primary scientific activity centers on eROSITA, a wide-field X-ray telescope onboard the Russian-German “Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma” (SRG) observatory. He is an expert on observational properties of astrophysical black holes.
Petra Labriga
Head of Acquisitions and Inventory Management
Since 1994, Petra Labriga has been working in library services and has built extensive experience in the field. Currently, she supports the transition to Open Access as head of the consortium office at ZB MED, a national infrastructure and research hub for data and information in the life sciences. She specializes in strategic license management with primary responsibilities that include overseeing license management and leading consortium negotiations.
Dr. Adrin Jalali
Co-Founder and VP Labs of :probabl.
Dr. Jalali is a co-founder of :probabl., an open-source commons dedicated to advancing AI, Machine Learning, and Data Science through community collaboration and transparency. With a strong commitment to responsible and ethical AI practices, his work spans key open-source libraries like scikit-learn, fairlearn, and skops, where he has made significant contributions as a core developer to improving fairness, transparency, and accountability.
Matthew Cannon
Head of Open Research for Taylor & Francis
Matthew Cannon has extensive experience in academic publishing, having worked at Taylor & Francis Group since 2008 in various editorial roles. His expertise is in Open Science practices for journals, project management, and cross-stakeholder collaboration. In recent years, he has successfully led initiatives to introduce new article types focused on Open Science, implement research data policies, preprints, and manage pilots to test integrations.
Dr. Dagmar Meyer
Policy Adviser at European Research Council Executive Agency (ERCEA)
Dagmar Meyer joined the ERCEA as Policy Adviser in 2012, focusing on Open Science and research assessment. She regularly engages with research funders, publishers, and stakeholders across Europe, contributing to various international Open Science initiatives and working groups. Previously, she worked for three years as Policy Officer at the European Commission dealing mainly with researcher mobility and careers, and prior to that as National Contact Point for the EU’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions at the Irish Universities Association.
