Organisational structure

Jordi Garcia-Fernàndez graduated in Biology and got a PhD in Genetics from the University of Barcelona. After a postdoctoral stay at the University of Oxford, he came back to Barcelona as a senior lecturer and, since 2003, he is full Professor of Genetics at the UB. His research specialties are mainly Developmental Genetics and Evolution. He got the “Young Researcher” Catalan Prize, and the senior “ICREA Academia Prize”, sponsored by the Nobel laureate of Medicine, Prof. Edward Lewis, and the Darwin Prize of the Royal Society, Prof. Peter WH Holland. He is also Honorary Research Professor at the University of Oxford, Merton College. He has been Vice Dean of Research at the Faculty of Biology, and head of the Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics. Since January 2021, he is Vice Rector for Research at the UB.

Emma Stokes is Vice President for Global Engagement at Trinity College Dublin. She joined the faculty in the mid-1990s where she completed her PhD and was elected as a Fellow in 2012. While on leave between 2018 and 2021, she established the Department of Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation Science at Qatar University. In 2015, she was elected to serve as President of World Physiotherapy, she was re-elected for a further 4 years in 2019 and in 2018 she co-founded the Global Rehabilitation Alliance established to advocate for a UN resolution on rehabilitation.

Frank Miedema studied biochemistry at the University of Groningen, specializing in immunology. As Divisional Manager at the Central Laboratory of the Blood Transfusion Service (CLB) he was responsible for such things as education and research, before going on to become Director of Sanquin Research. Miedema was affiliated with the University of Amsterdam as professor of Immunology of AIDS. In 2004 he became head of the Immunology department at UMC Utrecht. Miedema is a member of various national and international scientific organizations and advisory committees. He has published hundreds of articles in medical journals, including Nature, Science and Lancet. He is currently Vice Rector for Research at Utrecht University. In this role he is active in the CHARM-EU alliance both for the educational focus of CHARM-EU and the Research and Innovation programme that currently implements the Horizon 2020 TORCH project. In TORCH, he also contributes to the Open Science work package.

Peter Sziklai is a professor of Mathematics at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest. He earned his PhD in 1998 and became Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2014. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Science at ELTE in 2018-19. He works in Computer Science, Discrete Mathematics, he is Head of Department of Computer Science since 2015. He was visiting researcher (supported by various grants) for several months in Eindhoven (TUE, NL), Ghent (University of Ghent, Belgium), Rome (La Sapienza, Italy), London (QMW, UK). He is serving as Vice-Rector for Research of ELTE since August 2021.

Patrick Caron is a veterinary doctor, PhD and HDR in development geography. He is a specialist of farming systems and territorial dynamics. He is International Director at Montpellier University of Excellence – MUSE and Vice President for International Affairs of the University of Montpellier since January 2019. He joined CIRAD in 1988 where he has been Director-General for research and strategy from 2010 to 2016. His works relate to the analysis of the role of agriculture and livestock in rural transformations, particularly in Brazil, Southern Africa and the Near East. In 2015 he chaired the Organizing committee of the Global Science Conference on Climate Smart Agriculture (Montpellier, France), in 2016 of the international conference Agrichains and sustainable development, in 2017 the international conference on Living Territories and in 2020 the International Conference on Global Food Security. He was the Chair of the High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) of the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) from November 2015 to October 2019. He is a Board member of the CGIAR since September 2020 and member of the Scientific Group of the UN Food System Summit programmed in 2021.