The Speakers
Tracey Weissgerber
Tracey Weissgerber is the team leader for the EXCELScIOR ERA Chair meta-research team, and an Invited Research Coordinator, at the University of Coimbra. Her teams’ work on data visualization has led to policy changes in many journals. Other research priorities include enhancing the reproducibility and reusability of methods and protocols, creating automated tools to detect common problems and beneficial practices in research publications, and developing programs to reward graduate students for implementing reproducible, reusable and open practices in their thesis. She is known for her hands-on courses, where participants conduct meta-research studies or apply open research practices in their own research.
tracey.weissgerber@uc.pt
Jorge Pimenta
Jorge Pimenta is Director of Innovation at IPN, where he coordinates the ESA BIC Centro and participates in several international consortia and organisations. He is a member of the Board of Directors of EBN (www.ebn.eu) and a member of the Supervisory Board of EIT Health (https://eithealth.eu). Between 2014 and 2021, he was responsible for providing support to technology‑based companies, managing funding applications and negotiating financing through venture capital instruments, with a focus on internationalisation, innovation, and R&D. Since 2017, he has been an Assistant Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and Entrepreneurship and Business Management at FCTUC/University of Coimbra, as well as in the Executive MBA at FEUC.
jpimenta@ipn.pt
Joana Branco
Joana Branco is a biochemistry scientist with a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Porto and Baylor College of Medicine (USA). After completing her PhD, she co‑founded the biotechnology company GenePreDiT, where she worked as a Researcher and Scientific Director for nearly 15 years. She is currently Director of Innovation and Ecosystem Development at Biocant Park, President of P‑BIO, a Board Member of the National Council for Science and Innovation.
joana.branco@biocantpark.pt
Gautam Sharma
Gautam Sharma is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Karolinska Institutet, where he is part of the Metascience research group and works on the Horizon Europe project IP4OS. He is also an Affiliate Researcher at the Centre for Innovation Research (CIRCLE) at Lund University, where he previously held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship. With over 10 years of experience in science, technology and innovation policy studies, his research focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship for development, research assessment, and open science.
gautam.sharma@ki.se
John Ioannidis
John Ioannidis is Professor of Medicine, Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health, and Professor (by courtesy) of Biomedical Data Science at the School of Medicine and co-Director, Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS). His work aims to improve research methods and to enhance approaches to integrating information and generating reliable evidence. “Science is the best thing that can happen to humans, but doing research is like swimming in an ocean at night. Science thrives in darkness.”
jioannid@stanford.edu
