Speakers

Ana Marušić is a Professor of Anatomy and Chair of the Department of Research in Biomedicine and Health at the University of Split, School of Medicine in Split, Croatia. She is also an Honorary Professor at the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at the University of Edinburgh in the UK, and a Visiting Professor at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technical University in Singapore.

Ana Marušić chairs the Research Committee of the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) and is Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Global Health. She is on the Steering Group of the EQUATOR (Enhancing the QUality And Transparency Of Health Research) Network. She is also the Co-Chair of the Cochrane Scientific Committee. Prof. Marušić was the President of the European Association of European Editors (EASE), Council of Science Editors (CSE) and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME).

Prof. Marušić has more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and was heavily involved with creating the policy of mandatory registration of clinical trials in public registries which helped change the legal regulation of clinical trials worldwide.

ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6272-0917

Ivan Marić is the Director of University of Zagreb Computing Centre – SRCE, where he began his career in 1990. During his time in SRCE, he played an important role in the creation and construction of the Croatian academic and research network at the beginning of 1990’s and has since then participated in numerous national initiatives related to building Croatian e-infrastructure. Currently, he leads the national strategic project Croatian Scientific and Educational Cloud (HR-ZOO), which aims to build a new generation of e-infrastructure for advanced science and modern education.

On the international level, he is actively involved in building and governing major pan-European e-infrastructures like GEANT and EGI. Mr. Marić holds several positions in international organisations as national representative for Croatia – he is an official Croatian delegate in the EOSC Steering Board and in EOSC Association General Assembly. He is the Croatian representative in the Future Internet Forum (FIF) from 2016, and an e-IRG delegate from 2006. He is also the Croatian representative in Horizon Europe Research Infrastructure Programme Committee.

Karel Luyben is Rector Magnificus Emeritus of the Delft University of Technology as off 2018. He was Rector Magnificus of the Delft University of Technology from 2010 till 2018. Before that he served as Dean of the Faculty of Applied Sciences for almost 12 years. In 1983 he was appointed full professor in Biochemical Engineering at the Delft University of Technology, and from there has gained experience in research, starting a SME, research leadership and leading European organisations like the European Federation of Biotechnology, CESAER and now the European Open Science Cloud Association.

Presently he is primarily active in the domain of Open Science. He is National Coordinator for Open Science in the Netherlands; Chairman of the Board of the Dutch Techcentre for Life Sciences; involved with the Open Science Taskforces of CESAER and EUA and since December 2019 he is President of the European Open Science Cloud Association (EOSC-A).

Throughout his career, he has provided and continues to provide consultation services to research organisations, industries and governments in the areas of Technology and Strategy & Policy.