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The BBMRI-ERIC ELSI TEAM

The BBMRI-ERIC ELSI Headquarters Team

Head of ELSI Services and Research

Michaela Th. Mayrhofer

Her key responsibilities and fields of expertise include:

  • Setting and advancing the strategy of the ELSI department in line with the BBMRI statutes
  • Managing the ELSI Research and Services portfolio (core and projects)
  • Ensuring ELSI knowledge transfer across the National Nodes
  • Governance of the life sciences
  • The Code of Conduct for Health Research
  • Access Michaela’s research profile
  • Senior Scientist

    Melanie Goisauf

    Her key responsibilities and fields of expertise include:

  • ELSI aspects in biobanking and related questions of governance and data sharing
  • Research on ELSI matters in H2020 projects
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Coordinating the Ethics of AI Lab
  • Access Melanie’s research profile
  • Bioethicist

    Sara Casati

    Her key responsibilities and fields of expertise include:

  • Ethical expert
  • ELSI aspects in biobanking (esp. vulnerable populations and minors)
  • Coordinating the Expert Group on Research Ethics Committees
  • RRI, citizen science and engagement processes
  • Informed consent as a participatory process
  • Access Sara’s research profile
  • Senior Legal Expert

    Irene Schlünder

    Her key responsibilities and fields of expertise include:

  • GDPR expert
  • Research on legal expertise in H2020 projects
  • Anonymisation, pseudonymisation
  • Code of Conduct for Health Research
  • Access Irene’s research profile here
  • Scientist

    Kaya Akyüz

    His key responsibilities and fields of expertise include:

  • Providing guidance on ELSI matters in biobanking
  • Non-health related genomics research
  • Secondary use of genomic data
  • Science communication
  • Read Kaya’s interview here.

  • Access Kaya’s research profile
  • Senior Scientist and Gender, Equality & Diversity Specialist

    Mónica Cano Abadía

    Her key responsibilities and fields of expertise include:

  • Coordinating the ELSI Helpdesk and the ELSI Helpdesk Network
  • Developing and sustaining the ELSI Knowledge Base
  • Ethics of AI
  • Read Mónica’s interview here.

  • Access Monica’s research profile
  • Data Protection Specialist

    Ilaria Colussi

    Her key responsibilities and fields of expertise include:

  • Legal expert on privacy and compliance issues
  • Code of Conduct for Health Research
  • Providing support and complementing the work of the ELSI team on legal matters
  • Access Ilaria’s research profile
  • Services Officer (currently on leave)

    Jasjote Grewal

    Her key responsibilities and fields of expertise include:

  • Coordinating the ELSI Helpdesk and the ELSI Helpdesk Network
  • Writing and developing Impact Stories
  • Legal Expert

    Erdina Ene

    Her key responsibilities and fields of expertise include:

    Research Assistant

    Verena Borecky

    Her key responsibilities and fields of expertise include:

    • Supporting research tasks in H2020 projects
    • Literature and background research
    • Writing and developing agendas, minutes, and documentation
    • Access Verena’s research profile
    
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