Meet our editorial board

Ruth Morgan
University College London, United Kingdom

  • Dr. Ruth Morgan is a Professor of Crime and Forensic Science, Director of the Centre for the Forensic Sciences at University College London, and Co-Director of the UCL Arista Institute. She also currently serves as the Vice Dean (Interdisciplinarity Entrepreneurship) of the Faculty of Engineering Sciences at UCL. Her research addresses the accurate interpretation of forensic science evidence, the intersection of science and policy, and the need for innovative interdisciplinary approaches that transcend disciplinary and institutional borders. She is a regular speaker and advocate for innovative thinking that creates sustainable solutions to global challenges.

Anindita Bhadra
Indian Institute of Science Education & Research Kolkata, India

  • Dr. Anindita Bhadra is an Assistant Professor of Behavioural Biology. She previously acted as the Co-Chair and is now an alumnus of the Global Young Academy, as well as the Founding Chair and an alumnus of the Indian National Young Academy of Science. Her research focuses on stray dogs in India to map their behavioral evolution and the human-dog relationship. Recently, she has been highlighting the impacts of Covid-19 and the challenges that affect the move to Open Science in the Global South.

Connie Nshemereirwe
Uganda Young Academy, Uganda

  • Dr. Connie Nshemereirwe is the Director of the Africa Science Leadership Programme at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. She served as the former co-chair of the Global Young Academy, and hosts the podcast A is not for Apple. Dr. Nshemereirwe is trained as an educator, and is now an active science and policy writer, speaker, and trainer. She also works with the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research in Nairobi, Kenya.

Jean-Claude Burgleman
Vrije University Brussels, Belgium

Editor in Chief

  • Jean-Claude Burgelman is emeritus professor of Open Science at the Free University of Brussels. He retired in 2020 from the European Commission where he was in charge of Open Science policies. Till 2000 he was full professor of communication technology policy at the Free University of Brussels.

    He recently joined the advisory board of Open Knowledge Maps, Scimagine and became the editor in chief of Frontiers Policy Lab.

    In 2022 he became the director of the Frontiers Planet Prize, a global competition to stimulate science that can save the planet.

  • Professor Paolo Vineis serves as the Chair of Environmental Epidemiology at Imperial College, London. He leads the "Molecular Signatures and Pathways to Disease" theme of the MRC Centre for Environment and Health at Imperial College. His research interests focus on how environmental changes impact human health and molecules. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (Accademia dei Lincei) in Italy and of the Ethics Committee of the International Agency for Research on Cancer. Professor Vineis has coordinated several EU-funded projects on the exposome and environmental health.

  • Professor Nova Ahmed is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North South University. Her research focuses on human centered computing, as well as healthcare, Computing for Good, education, Cloud and Distributed Computing, Sensor and Systems, Feminist HCI, ICT for D, privacy, and social justice. She is an alumni of the Global Young Academy and a founding member of the National Young Academy Bangladesh and Kaan Pete Roi. Dr. Ahmed is also a Fellow of Sangat, as well as a member of the SIGCHI Cares Committee and Asian HCI. She volunteers for the Bangladesh Mathematical Olympiad, Children's Science Congress and Missing Daughter's Initative.

  • Salvatore Aricò was appointed as ISC’s Chief Executive Officer in January 2023. An oceanographer by training, he was in charge of ocean science at the UN Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, Executive Secretary of the UN Secretary-General’s Scientific Advisory Board, Senior Research Fellow at the United Nations University, Chief of Programme at the Convention on Biological Diversity. Salvatore’s academic  engagements and achievements include researcher University of Delaware, affiliate professor Parthenope University of Naples and Universiti Terengganu and UCSI University in Malaysia, and the supervision of graduate students. He has authored or co-authored close to 100 scientific publications and has been involved in journals’ editorial committees/acted as book editor.

Paolo Vineis
Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Nova Ahmed
North South University, Bangladesh

Salvatore Arico
International Science Council, France

Caroline Wagner
The Ohio State University, United States of America

  • Dr. Caroline S. Wagner serves on the faculty of the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at the Ohio State University. She also acts as an advisor to the Battelle Center for Science and Technology Policy, sits on the advisory board of the OSU ADVANCE program promoting women's advancement in science and engineering, and serves as a consultant to the United Nations on the Sustainable Development Goals. She studies science and technology, highlighting the relationships between these and policy, society, and innovation. Dr. Wagner spent much of her career as a policy analyst with the RAND Corporation and the Science & Technology Policy Institute and continues to speak on the importance of science and policy.

Luc Soete
Brussels School of Governance, Belgium

  • Dr. Luc Soete is a Professor and the Dean of the Brussels School of Governance. He is also an Honorary Professor of international economics at Maastrict University, The Netherlands and the Dean of the Institute for European Studies and Vesalius College. He also serves as the Vice-Chairman on the Supervisory Board of the Technical University Delft (TUD). He is on the Advisory board of the University of Sussex Business School and the UNU Institute on Comparative Reigonal Integration Studies. Dr. Soete is a member of the Economic and Social Impact of Research group within the European Commission, as well as the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research focus and career interests lie in innovation and technological change, as well as policy surrounding these areas.

Archana Sharma
CERN, Switzerland

  • Recently honoured with the highest civilian award for Indians living abroad, by the President, Government of India, the Pravasi Bhartiya Samman, and Bharat Gaurav at the British Parliament, Dr. Archana Sharma is a Principal Staff Scientist at the CERN Laboratory in Geneva active in the field since 1989 in high energy physics. A Ph.D. from Delhi University in 1989, a D.Sc. from the University of Geneva in 1996, and an MBA from International University in Geneva Archana has worked at CERN experiments on R&D and commissioning of large-scale radiation detectors. She is the founder and Project Manager of CMS GEM Collaboration since 2008, bringing a new technology GEM (Gas Electron Multiplier) - for exploiting one of the most sensitive detectors with the highest discovery potential. Archana also serves as Senior Advisor for Relations with International Organisations at CERN, in support of CERN's objective of integrating and highlighting fundamental research towards Science Diplomacy, and Sustained Development Goals. Dr. Sharma is Head of the Engagement Office for the ‘Compact Muon Solenoid’ Experiment at CERN which connects her with a collaboration spanning 57 countries and about 250 institutions. She is well known for her relentless efforts in mentoring hundreds of young students particularly girls in STEM, via her NGO based in New Delhi. Archana is also a patent owner of a family of gas detectors, an author of over 1200 publications and 3 popular science books

Mat Collins
University of Exeter, United Kingdom

  • Dr. Matthew Collins is a Professor of Climate Change at the University of Exeter, as well as the Joint Met Office Chair in Climate Change.. He is the Field Chief Editor for Frontiers in Climate, launching the section Predictions and Projections. His research interests lie in the physical science of climate and climate change, with the majority of his work in complex climate models.

Marga Gual Soler
GESDA, Switzerland

  • Marga Gual Soler is an international expert in science diplomacy recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. She is the founder of SciDipGLOBAL, a purpose-driven consultancy specialized in strategy, research, and training working with governments, universities, and international organizations to build bridges between science, technology, and global policy. She is a member of the 'Science in/for Diplomacy for Addressing Global Challenges' (S4D4C) project, an advisor to the EUHorizon 2020 Science Diplomacy Cluster, and an associate researcher in science diplomacy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Previously she served as Senior Project Director at the Center for Science Diplomacy of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Washington DC, and a high-level policy advisor to former European Commissioner for Research and Innovation, Carlos Moedas. She holds a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Queensland in Australia and was a Global Competitiveness Leadership Fellow at Georgetown University. In 2019 she participated in the largest-ever expedition of women in STEM to Antarctica. She is currently the Head of Science Diplomacy capacity building at GESDA.