Scientific Committee

The role of the Scientific Committee

The Scientific Committee is an advisory body of the BBI JU established in accordance with BBI JU Regulation. The Scientific Committee assists the BBI JU in providing scientific advice on the areas of work undertaken by the BBI JU.

The Scientific Committee has two major tasks:

a) Advise on the scientific priorities to be addressed in the annual work plans;

b) Advise on the scientific achievements described in the annual activity report.

Moreover, the Governing Board can ask the Scientific Committee to provide advice on a specific matter of interest to the BBI JU such as the adjustment of the Strategic Innovation and Research Agenda (SIRA).

The composition of the Scientific Committee

Chair
Kevin O’Connor
Director
Bioeconomy Research Centre (UCD)
Bio

Vice-Chair
Lene Lange
Research Leader
Head of Enzyme Discovery Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Bio

Member
Bruno Jarry
Vice-President
French National Academy of Technologies
Bio

Member
Calliope Panoutsou
Senior Research Fellow
Imperial College London
Bio

Member
Christian Huyghe
Scientific Director Agriculture
INRA-France
Bio

Member
Dagmar Stengel
Senior Lecturer / Head of Botany and Plant Science
National University of Ireland Galway (NUI Galway)
Bio

Member
Helena Vieira
Invited Associated Professor
Faculty of Sciences of University of Lisbon
Bio

Member
Joe Gallagher
Head of Industrial Biotechnology
Institute Director of Knowledge Exchange and Commercialisation
Bio

Member
Lígia Rodrigues
Professor / Assistant professor
University of Minho, Portugal
Bio

Member
Lígia O. Martins
Assistant Professor
Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica – Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Bio

Member
Mariya Marinova
Ph.D., P.Eng. Adjunct Professor
Department of Wood and Forest Sciences, Laval University, Quebec, Canada
Bio

Member
Sigurjon Arason
Professor / chief engineer
University of Iceland / Matis ohf.
Bio

Member
Uffe Bundgaard-Jørgensen
CEO InvestorNet-Gate2Growth
Ph.D. / CEO
Bio

Member
Yvonne Van der Meer
Dr. ir. Associate / Professor
Maastricht University
Bio

 

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