Jan Andersen, Senior Executive Officer, University of Southern Denmark, former EARMA Chair and current member of the steering committee for the EARMA Leadership Program. He was a DARMA Board member and founder and chair of BESTPRAC, Head of the INORMS WG on Organisational Development. He worked in RMA since 1994, whereof 20 years with the University of Copenhagen. Jan was conceptualising the Research Information System PURE. Jan is part of the EARMA Pasta Making Event, and received the EARMA Lifetime Achievement Award 2022.

Evelina Brännvall is a current Chairwomen of EARMA. She is working as an external funding specialist at Grants Office of Luleå University of Technology (LTU) in Sweden, in her everyday work supports the university's leadership and researchers in external funding issues, in creating and maintaining good relationships with national and EU funders. She has one PhD in Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management (Lithuania, 2006) and another one in Waste Science and Technology (Sweden, 2013). Evelina transitioned into research management in 2014. Since then, she has been on various EARMA Committees, graduating the first cohort of the EARMA Certificate Programme in Research Management. She has been on the Annual Conference Programme Committee since the very beginning and chaired it for two years. She is a co-organiser of EARMA Leadership programme.

 
John Donovan is the Head of Research at the Technological University Dublin, Ireland. John is a PhD molecular biologist and has worked in various research support roles for more than 25 years. He has served on several national and international committees and was, for 4 years, the chairperson of EARMA. He continues an active engagement with the Association on the Board, the Annual Conference Committee and on the staff of the Leadership Programme and the Early RMA Career Master Class.
 

Aurelija Povilaikė is Head of National Contact Point (NCP) division at Research Council of Lithuania, national expert on two European Commission programme committees for Horizon Europe, leading informal Research Managers and Administrators Association (L-ARMA), member of EARMAImpact group and expert on research impact. Aurelija has previously worked as Head of Research Development at Social Sciences and Humanities Faculty Queen Mary University of London and University of Kent in the UK.

Ragnar Lie is Senior Advisor at Universites Norway, the Norwegian “rectors conference”, working with topics like research policies, open science, research administration and management, career policies and leadership development. He has worked in the higher educational sector for more than 30 years; first at The Research Council of Norway, then at University of Oslo, (both at center,- faculty, and central level), and, since 2011, at Universities Norway. In EARMA he has previous been engaged in in the Professional Development and Recognition Committee and in the Board, and presently in the Annual Programme Conference Committee as well as the organizing committee for the Leadership Event. He holds a degree in Political Science from Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen.

Stefania Elisabeth Grotti is a passionate and energetic professional involved in the field of Academic Research with strong competencies in the creation of Strategic Path and Management for hiring processes in the Research Office. More than 22 years of experience as a Research Manager at Politecnico di Milano, most of it as a Manager and Coordinator, with strong leadership and negotiation skills. With her involvement, Politecnico di Milano reached the first position at national level for EU projects granted. Great knowledge of funding and financial management with remarkable experience and ability to negotiate and mediate at any level and stage since 1995. Thanks to a national and international experience on complex projects, she has developed extensive knowledge in the Organisational HR Field suitable for transnational and diverse Research Contexts (academic and industry).

Doris Alexander is Assoc Director of European Engagement at Trinity College Dublin. She has worked in RMA since 1994. She has been involved in several EC stakeholder groups including the development of the European Universities initiative and aspects of the ERA. She was an EARMA board member and inaugural vice chair of the Coimbra Group Research Officers grouping and is currently on the LERU ERPM steering Group as well as chairing the FOR EU1 R&I subgroup.

Daniel Bangert is Ireland’s National Open Research Coordinator, based at the Digital Repository of Ireland. He coordinates the National Open Research Forum (NORF), a broad group of stakeholder representatives who developed Ireland’s National Action Plan for Open Research. He serves on task forces and working groups of the EOSC and Research Data Alliance and is a Board member of the Council for National Open Science Coordination. His background is in arts and humanities research, academic librarianship, and European Open Science projects.

Massimo Busuoli is Director of  NTNU Brussels office and EARMA Board Member.
Physicist, he started his career in ENEA (Italy) becoming the Head of the European Affair Unit located in Brussels.
Active in Brussels since 2006, he is an expert in EU policies and strategies and he has been instrumental in the creation of some important EU initiatives such as the European Energy Research Alliance, the Italian Node in the KIC Raw Materials, the UnILiON network (www.unilion.eu).