Board of experts
Ivana Versic
Dr. Versic is an experienced professional (+20 years in academic and public sectors). She is part of the academic system, establishes and leads international relations and EU project, and is a member of working groups at the university and national level.
Her formal qualifications include a MSc in Social Psychology, a postgraduate degree in Economic Sciences (international economics, general management) and a PhD in Experimental Psychology. Her area of interest are decision-making processes, especially in uncertain and risky environments.
Since 2015, she has assumed various roles for distributed research infrastructures at both management and executive levels, with responsibilities spanning from operational oversight of administration and finances, overall coordination, supervision of external (EU funded) and internal projects, to strategic direction and planning as part of the management boards. Her scope of work also includes governance of research infrastructures, impacts and performance assessment, and outreach to communities of stakeholders.
Expertises: Research infrastructures operations, European programmes and project coordination, Strategic planning, Business management and planning
Dr. Francesca di Donato, PhD in History of Political Philosophy, is a researcher at the Institute of Computational Linguistics “A. Zampolli” of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR). Her researches focus on Science Communication.
Francesca is a member of the G7 Open Science working group, and of the group nominated by the Italian Ministry of Research to implement the Italian National Plan on Open Science. In 2022 she was part of the core group who drafted the Agreement on reforming research assessment. Since 2008, she has been holding training courses on Open Science.
Expertise: Open Science training, Scholarly communication, Research on Research Assessment, Political Philosophy
Yannick Rivera is a results-driven professional with progressive experience in revenue growth and market expansion in the EdTech, HRTech and education sectors.
What sets him apart are his strong skills in leading cross-functional teams, achieving performance targets and delivering exceptional educational experiences. He is passionate about delivering exceptional educational experiences through transformational initiatives and innovative technology solutions.
Expertise: Success and revenue growth across EdTech & HRTech sectors
Stephanie Armangau
Stephanie Armangau is the founder and director of Arcom Swiss, a Swiss-based company specializing in behavioral performance at work.
Arcom Swiss provides services and training to enhance talent development, cooperation, and individual valorization within organizations. Using tools from behavioral sciences and cognitive neuroscience, Arcom offers predictive analyses to support executive decision-making. Arcom Swiss aims to improve workplace interactions and overall performance through a deeper understanding of human behavior.
Expertise: Behavioral analysis, talent development
Emilie Blotière
Emilie Blotière started her career in banking and insurance companies where she managed a portfolio of French, Swiss and Italian institutional clients. After a master’s degree in digital humanities, she reoriented her career and worked in French public research institutions (CNRS, INRIA) as a European project manager.
Emilie has a big experience in submitting and coordinating H2020, Horizon Europe and national funded-projects, such as France 2030: a national investment plan to invest massively in innovative technologies and support the ecological transition. Emilie is currently working for a French company that develop automated vehicles and helps them to integrate funded projects in their technical roadmap. She has a great experience in coordinating and managing large-scale European projects, and she is experienced in the exercise of developing international strategy and coordinate European networks of partners. She carried out research on open science issues and its European dimension, notably on the user engagement strategy for open access research digital tools (gotriple platform).
Her interest lies in bringing public and private players together towards the same goal, in an international context. She believes in Open Science and in sharing knowledge across geographical and technological boundaries, democratising access to knowledge; making science more cumulative, more strongly underpinned by data, more transparent; increasing the efficiency of research by avoiding duplication of effort.
Expertise: management of large-scale projects, coordination of international networks, European strategy, user engagement, Open Science