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Panelist Spotlight: Gemma Modinos from King's College London
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Panelist Spotlight: Gemma Modinos from King's College London
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Panelist Spotlight Gemma Modinos
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Gemma Modinos is Professor of Neuroscience & Mental Health at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience of King’s College London (UK). She graduated from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the University of Barcelona (Spain), and completed a PhD at the University of Groningen (Netherlands). She then moved to the UK for her post-doctoral training at King’s, where she currently leads a translational neuroscience research lab working to identify early biomarkers and novel targets for schizophrenia spectrum disorders. She was Chair of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE) in 2020-2022, during which the YAE led several widening participation initiatives to support early-career researchers (ECRs) from EU13 countries, and co-founded YASAS, by which ECRs are now embedded in the European Commission’s Scientific Advice Mechanism (SAPEA). Gemma has been actively involved in the European research assessment reform over the past years, for example as part of the European Commission’s core group which subsequently led to the establishment of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA), and advising the ERC on reforming its research/researcher evaluation criteria. She was elected Member of Academia Europaea in 2024, and is member of its "HERCulES" Expert Group (Higher Education, Research and Culture in European Societies) since 2022.
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Session outline for Research Assessment as a Driver for Change
In this opening plenary panel, speakers take stock of current and future dimensions of research assessment to maximize the quality and impact of research and innovation. Urgent imperatives include the need for incentives and rewards that foster the production, transmission and implementation of knowledge and innovation by equipping individual researchers, universities, and funding agencies with the necessary infrastructures and frameworks to enable scientific leadership. Speakers represent a range of voices from the academic community and the science funding ecosystem. The panel explores evolving expectations of European and international research teams to play an active role in securing competitiveness, democratic values, and scientific autonomy. A prerequisite for a vibrant science and innovation system is sustainable research cultures that enable excellence and impact through flexible and diverse career paths, mobility in all its forms, and evaluations that properly acknowledge and support the many values at the core of our research systems.
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