Stakeholder Advisory Board

Lex Bouter is Professor Emeritus of Methodology and Integrity at the Department of Epidemiology and Data Science of the Amsterdam University Medical Centers and the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Humanities of the Vrije Universiteit. He is involved research and teaching on research integrity and open science topics. He was appointed as tenured Professor of Epidemiology in 1992 and served his university as its rector between 2006 and 2013. Professor Bouter has supervised 83 PhD students, of whom to date 17 were appointed as professor. He was the founding chair of the World Conferences on Research Integrity Foundation.

Stephan Guttinger is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Exeter, UK. He is co-lead of the Data, Knowledge and AI research strand at the Egenis Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences and also serves as the head of research for the Exeter strand of the Ethical Data Initiative, a project jointly hosted by the University of Exeter and the Technische Universität München (TUM). Stephan’s work focuses on knowledge production in the biological laboratory, with a particular focus on issues such as experimental control, reproducibility, and the increasing use of AI-driven automation.

Maura is an Adjunct Professor of Research Integrity at UCD, helped establish the Irish National Research Integrity Forum and contributed to Irish RI policies (2019, 2024, 2022). She has worked with ESF, Science Europe, and ALLEA to foster RI. Maura chairs the ALLEA Research Ethics and Integrity Council and led revisions of the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity in 2017 and 2023, now a key document in EU grants, curricula, and policies across Europe. She is Treasurer of the World Conferences on RI Foundation and advises EU-funded RI and ethics projects. In 2025, she was elected to the Royal Irish Academy for her contributions to RI policy.

Neil Jacobs is Associate Director of the UK Reproducibility Network, leading its Open Research Programme and work to establish UKRN on a sustainable footing. He has previously worked at UKRI in the research integrity strategy team, contributing to the design of the UK Committee on Research Integrity, and as co-lead for open science policy in the UK Government during the set-up of UKRI. During 2005 to 2020 he worked for Jisc on infrastructure and open research innovation programmes and led a team delivering services and policy advice on open access. He is chair of the Directory of Open Access Books supervisory board, on the academic advisory board of the Global Research Initiative on Open Science, and plays a leading role in the Global Federation of Reproducibility Networks.

Sabine Kleinert is Deputy Editor at The Lancet and Research Integrity and Risk Management Lead for The Lancet Group of journals. She is a member of the Leadership Team of The Lancet Group. She served as Vice-Chair of the Committee on Publication Ethics from 2006 to March 2012 and was involved in the Conferences on Research Integrity from their beginning in 2007. She was a member of the Governing Board of the World Conferences on Research Integrity Foundation until 2025 and was Co-Chair of the 3 rd (Montreal, Canada, 2013), 4 th (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2015) and 7 th World Conference on Research Integrity (Cape Town, South Africa, 2022). Her background is qualification as a medical doctor in Germany and training as a Paediatrician and Paediatric Cardiologist in the UK, Belgium, Australia, the USA, and Australia.

Brian Nosek co-developed the Implicit Association Test, a method that advanced research and public interest in implicit bias. Nosek co-founded three non-profit organizations: Project Implicit to advance research and education about implicit bias (http://projectimplicit.net/), the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science to improve the research culture in his home discipline (http://improvingpsych.org/), and the Center for Open Science (COS; http://cos.io/) to improve rigor, transparency, integrity, and reproducibility across research disciplines. Nosek is Executive Director of COS and a professor at the University of Virginia. Nosek’s research and applied interests are to understand why people and systems produce behaviors that are contrary to intentions and values; to develop, implement, and evaluate solutions to align practices with values; and, to improve research credibility and cultures to accelerate progress.

Janne Pölönen is Secretary General for Publication Forum at the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies (TSV). Since 2010, Pölönen has participated in the development of community-curated national classification of peer-reviewed journals and book publishers (Publication Forum). Lic.Phil. in history, specialising in ancient Roman law and society research, his recent research work is in the fields of scholarly communication, bibliometrics, research assessment, open science and learned societies. He is also an advocate for the Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication, coordinator of CoARA WG on Multilingualism and Language Biases in Research Assessment, and a member of the CoARA Steering Board (currently a vice-chair).