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Panelist Spotlight: Dr Sonja Ochsenfeld-Repp from German Research Foundation
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Panelist Spotlight: Dr Sonja Ochsenfeld-Repp from German Research Foundation
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Panelist Spotlight Sonja Ochsenfeld-Repp
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Sonja Ochsenfeld-Repp is Head of Division “Research Culture”, German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft | DFG). Before that, she served as Deputy Head of Division “Quality and Programme Management”. Her focus is on the promotion of equity, diversity, and inclusion, sustainability in research processes, research assessment and safeguarding research integrity. From 2012 to 2015 she was Deputy Director of the European Liaison Office of the German Research Organisations (Kowi) and Head of the Bonn office. She was co-coordinator of the National Contact Point for the European Research Council (ERC). Sonja is a member of the Science Europe (SE) Working Groups on Research Culture and Artificial Intelligence; she is engaged in the Coalition on Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA). Sonja is a fully qualified lawyer by training and has been awarded a doctoral degree from the University of Bonn. She has participated as a speaker or chair in many national, European and international conferences.
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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, inter-sectoral mobility, and evaluations that acknowledge academic entrepreneurship, innovation, and public engagement.
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