Dalia works as a Senior Researcher at SYKE. Her research interests include biodiversity-underpinned ecosystem services and the governance of socio-ecological systems as well as sustainability-solutions and organisational and societal transformations towards sustainability. In BioAgora, Dalia mainly focuses on the actors operating at the science-policy interface in the context of the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030, and their potential role in the Science Service for Biodiversity.

Elise works at SYKE as a Senior Coordinator focusing on land cover and land use monitoring, ecosystem accounting, and citizen science. Within BioAgora, she is working on the knowledge exchange network (WP1) and tasks on developing shared values with the public for transformational change (WP5).

Juuli supports the BioAgora Coordination in her role as a project manager. She works as a coordinator in her home organization (Finnish Environment Institute, SYKE).

Kaisa Korhonen-Kurki works as a head of unit and senior research scientist in the Finnish Environment Institute, as well as a co-coordinator of BioAgora. Her expertise includes not only biodiversity and climate policies, but also knowledge co-production methods, all topics on which she has published widely. Kaisa has a long experience in working on science-policy interfaces.

Kati Vierikko holds the titles of senior researcher, PhD and docent in urban ecology. She coordinates national and international projects related to urban environment, biodiversity protection, nature-based solutions, human well-being and sustainable land-use planning. She is experienced in research on human-nature interactions, place-based research and interdisciplinary studies by using a mixed-method approach. Kati is responsible for organizing BioAgora's cascade funding for Third parties.

Maria has worked for SYKE and its predecessors for almost 30 years. She has been the financial manager of a wide variety of EC-funded instruments since the late 1990s. Maria will guide you through the wild bureaucratic jungle of financial reporting and assist you with Commission portal issues.

Maria works at SYKE as a project manager focusing on research data management. Her role is to support research projects from the application phase to the end of the project until the final outputs are published/archived. For BioAgora, she acts as a data manager.

Miia Riihimäki is a technical coordinator of EU projects and a financial manager of the BioAgora project at SYKE.

Peter Kullberg is a conservation scientist working with topics related to biodiversity data and its use in decision-making context. He is the project manager of the Finnish Ecosystem Observatory that aims to enhance accessibility and use of nature data in Finland. Peter leads Task 1.3: Selection and Development of Further Demonstration Cases

Samuli Pitzén is a social scientist in the field of environmental governance. He works as a researcher in SYKE, currently pursuing his PhD on policy coherence and integration, focusing especially on forest, biodiversity and climate policies. He is currently using different methodologies and foci to approach the topic, e.g. conducting coherence analysis of EU-level policies in the Horizon Europe projects BioAgora and RESPIN.

For over 20 years, Adam Vanbergen is a senior researcher exploring how insect communities respond to anthropogenic environmental changes. He has extensive experience in relation to science-policy interfaces at national, European (EC) and international levels (IPBES, CBD, FAO). In BioAgora, he is engaged with the pollination knowledge exchange network (WP1).

Frédéric Gosselin is a researcher and engineer in ecology and biometry. His main applied themes of expertise are the impact of forest management – negative or positive – on forest interspecific biodiversity and the development & evaluation of biodiversity indicators. He will be involved in WP1 (the knowledge exchange network).

Juliette Young is a senior researcher at INRAE. She is a social scientist and has been working on understanding and improving the science-policy interface on biodiversity and ecosystem services in Europe for over 15 years. In BioAgora, Juliette is part of the core coordination team, is leading WP4 and co-leading WP5.

Léa Tardieu is an environmental economist at INRAE and has expertise in modelling and mapping ecosystem services, with a focus on enhancing their integration into spatial planning and understanding social preferences for conservation initiatives. In BioAgora, Léa contributes to WP1 and WP3 on habitat modelling/mapping and policy impact analysis.

Marion Gosselin is an engineer, specialised in forest ecology at the Research Unit in Forest Ecosystems of INRAE. Within her team, she is in charge of knowledge production and transfer concerning the relationships between forest management and biodiversity as well as forest biodiversity monitoring. In BioAgora, she is involved in WP1 and will take part in the knowledge exchange network.

Robin Dianoux is a postdoc at INRAE. He recently completed a PhD in Sociology exploring biodiversity knowledge and environmental ethics in Colombia's offset policies. He also has an extensive background in anthropology, qualitative methods, and multimedia storytelling. Through an interdisciplinary perspective to environmental policy, he aims at fostering inclusive science-policy interfaces that incorporate diverse knowledge and stakeholder voices, thereby supporting conflicts transformation.

Sandra Luque is a Research Director at INRAE (TETIS Lab). She was a NASA EOS Fellow, Global Change Program. Sandra is the current chair of the IUFRO Forest Environment Division and lead author for the IPBES Nexus Report. In BioAgora, she is working on WP3 on biodiversity indicators, remote sensing coupling modelling, ES & species habitat modelling and mapping.

Stanislas Rigal is a researcher focusing on two interconnected poles - conservation biology and ecological economics. He is currently pursuing a post-doctorate with INRAE, contributing to WP1 of the BioAgora project.

Anja is a research scientist at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ in Germany. She is the scientific project manager in BioAgora supporting the scientific co-coordinators.

Anna Salomaa holds a PhD in environmental change and policy from the University of Helsinki. She has done research on nature conservation policies, interaction between knowledge and policies, science-policy organisations, and sustainability transformations. Her research has involved collaboration with various practical partners.

Candice Pouget is a research scientist in the Department of Conservation Biology and Social-Ecological Systems at UFZ. She holds a Master in Public Health with a specialization in community health prevention and promotion and has a previous experience in event organisation and management. Since 2019, she has been involved in different projects at the biodiversity science-policy-society interface, in particular as a member of the Eklipse Management Body. She has a strong interest in rethinking transversal collaboration and efficient communication between knowledge systems and topical silos so as to improve processes, better facilitate the co-creation of knowledge in transdisciplinary expert groups and provide actionable results to policy. 

Harineeswari Meenakshi Sundaram is a research associate at the Alternet Association, a member of the Eklipse Management Team and a Guest Scientist at UFZ. Her current work focuses on the EU project ECO-READY, where she is actively involved in developing an ethical infrastructure to support project activities. She is also contributing to the BioAgora project, assisting in the development of its ethical framework.

Josef (Sepp) heads the Department of Conservation Biology and Social-Ecological Systems at UFZ. Within Bioagora, he is part of the coordination team and co-lead of WP1. He holds a PhD in agriculture which is based on agro-ecological research on biocontrol in tropical irrigated rice systems. He has extensive science-policy experience as a co-chair of the Global Assessment of IPBES from 2016 to 2019 and a coordinating lead author of the 5th IPCC Assessment Report.

Karla Locher is a researcher in the Department of Conservation Biology and Social-Ecological Systems / Environmental Politics at UFZ. She holds a PhD in landscape ecology with a focus on landscape transformations and socioecological systems, as well as a master's degree in forestry. Her research is connected to sustainability transformations, considering leverages for sustainability and transdisciplinary theory in applications such as biodiversity conservation. Since 2017, she has been working on understanding and implementing science-policy-society interfaces. Karla is also part of the Eklipse Science policy brokering mechanism. In BioAgora, she is involved in several tasks connected to transformative change and science-policy-society interfaces.

Marie is the head of the Eklipse Management Body and a senior researcher in the department of Conservation Biology and Social-Ecological Systems at UFZ, where she is leading a working group on the Biodiversity Science Policy Interface.
Marie is part of the co-coordination team of BioAgora. She is also on the leading team for WP1 in addition to co-leading WP2 and leading Tasks 3.4 and 4.2.

Roxanne Leberger is a postdoctoral researcher at UFZ. She has a background as a conservation ecologist and has been working on diverse topics ranging from protected area effectiveness to plant-pollinator networks. She is highly interested in science-for-policy and is currently involved in WP3 (State of knowledge) and WP1 (Knowledge exchange network).

Dr Constantin Cazacu is a senior researcher and lecturer at the University of Bucharest He is the head of the Department of Systems Ecology and Sustainability. Furthermore, he is a freshwater ecologist with knowledge on the structure and functioning of the ecosystems from the Lower Danube River. In BioAgora, he is involved in WP5 and Tasks 1.4 and 3.3.

Georgia Arhire, PhD in Environmental Sciences, is an affiliated researcher at UB-RCSES. Her field of expertise is systems ecology with a focus on identification of spatial and temporal landscape patterns, mapping and assessment of ecosystems and their services. In BioAgora, she is mainly involved in Task 1.4, T.2.2, and T.3.1.

Dr. Magdalena Bucur is a researcher at UB-RCSES, with a PhD in Ecology. She focuses on science-policy interfaces. Since 2003 she was involved in various EC- and nationally funded projects. In BioAgora, she represents UB in WP7 and also participates in other WPs as team member.

He is a senior researcher in systems ecology and coordinates national and international projects related to biodiversity protection, wetland restoration, human wellbeing and sustainability. He is experienced in research on complex human-nature interactions, transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies. Mihai is BioAgora’s national project coordinator and responsible for task 2.4. He is also involved in other WPs.

Relu Giuca, PhD in Ecology, is a Researcher at UB-RCSES. His expertise in in the fields of biodiversity and ecosystem services. In BioAgora, he is involved in WP1, 2 and 5.

Dr. Tudor Racoviceanu has a PhD in Ecology and is a researcher at UB-RCSES. His research is focused on ecosystem services assessment and mapping, wetland functions and services, remote sensing, and in-situ sensor networks for the monitoring of natural capital and ecosystem functioning. In BioAgora, he acts as the member of the University of Bucharest responsible for WP3.

Valentin Dinu is a junior scientist who focuses his research on freshwater ecosystems and multiple stressors. He has worked as an expert in the Biodiversa and Interreg projects. In BioAgora, he is mainly involved in developing shared values with the public for transformative change (WP 5.3).

Chiara Cortinovis is an assistant professor at the University of Trento, with expertise in spatial planning, ecosystem services and nature-based solutions. Formerly, she was a postdoc at Lund University and an Alexander-von-Humboldt fellow at the Humboldt University of Berlin. She has also worked as expert for the European Commission and consultant for public administrations. In BioAgora, she mostly contributes to WP1 and to the knowledge exchange network on nature-based solutions.

Davide heads the Planning for Ecosystem Services and Urban Sustainability Lab at UniTrento, where he teaches ecological planning and environmental impact assessment. Formerly a research fellow at Harvard University and a visiting scholar at Stanford University, he has extensive experience in EU-funded research projects on ecosystem services and land use decisions. In BioAgora, he co-leads WP1 and leads the knowledge exchange network on urban nature-based solutions.

Enzo Falco is an associate professor of urban planning at the University of Trento with expertise in spatial planning, planning law and nature-based solutions. He was formerly a post-doctoral researcher at TU Delft and GSSI, as well as a planning consultant for local planning authorities. In BioAgora, he mostly contributes to WP2 with a focus on the networks and actors operating at the science-policy interface in the context of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030.

Dieter Mortelmans is a senior research scientist at the Institute for Nature and Forest Research (INBO) in Brussels and part-time farmer. He has a background in forest and nature policy as well as a specific interest in policy coherence, policy mix assessments and policy instruments fostering nature-agriculture synergies (e.g. Payments for Ecosystem Services, result-based measures, etc.). He is mostly involved in WP1 within the Knowledge Exchange Network on multifunctional landscapes.

Jomme is a researcher at the Nature and Society team at INBO. He holds a Master in bioscience engineering and is pursuing a second degree in conflict & development. His research interests are political ecology and ecological economics. Central in his research are systems thinking and policy relevance. In BioAgora, he is involved in WP1, 3, and 5.

Maurice Hoffmann is director of (EV)INBO and present chair of the Alternet Association Council. He teaches nature management and ecosystem management & services at Ghent University. He primarily contributes to BioAgora through capacity-building activities and through mobilizing the expertise available in the Alternet Association.

Myriam Dumortier is a senior researcher at INBO, focusing on the relation between agriculture and biodiversity. She teaches forest and nature policy at Ghent University. She was policy officer for the European Commission, developing the policy on invasive alien species. In BioAgora, she is involved in WP1, 3 and 5.

Manuka Khan is a junior researcher at the Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving, with a background in spatial engineering. Her expertise is particularly focused on applying spatial analysis to support biodiversity projects. Past projects include utilising remote sensing to monitor agrobiodiversity, developing species distribution models and visualising spatial databases. In the BioAgora project, Manuka will support the development of a scenario database for the Science Service for Biodiversity.

Jiska is originally a large carnivore researcher, still doing otter research and responsible for otter monitoring in Norway. Nowadays, she is heavily involved in training and dialogue, interdisciplinary research and the science-policy interface. She is task leader for T3.3 and T5.2 and coordinating Alternet's work in BioAgora.

Katariina works as a researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, concentrating on applied ecology, transformative change, and environmental psychology. In BioAgora, she contributes to the tasks on horizon scanning and capacity building (T3.3, T5.2).

Kristin is a research director at NINA, specifically the department at Lillehammer, Norway. She is an ecologist and has a PhD in Applied Ecology. Her expertise has been research with emphasis on human - carnivore conflicts (HWC), and conflicts related to wolves, brown bears, wolverines and lynxes in particular. She has also worked on how to increase and build trust in research among the public.

Maja Vasilijević is a Senior Advisor and former Chair of the IUCN WCPA Transboundary Conservation Specialist Group. Her expertise lies in transboundary conservation processes and governance, capacity development, professional network leadership and science-based nature conservation policy development.

Matthew Grainger is a researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) with expertise in Systematic Evidence Synthesis. He develops methods and tools to improve the transparency, rigor, and usability of ecological evidence for decision-making.

Ben is an independent ecologist. He works at local to European levels, e.g. in biodiversity-related science-policy-practice interaction, communication, and meeting facilitation. In BioAgora, he co-leads WP7 and provides input for demo webinars, the launching event, harvesting knowledge, governance elements and structure. Additionally, he leads the development of the business plan.

Paul is General Manager of Oppla, the EU Repository of Nature-based Solutions (based in the Netherlands). He also serves as Creative Director of Countryscape, part design agency, part environmental consultancy based in the UK and Estonia. He has over 30 years’ experience in communications and knowledge exchange within the public and private sectors.

Phoebe Griffith’s research focuses on the conservation of freshwater megafauna, with a particular focus on their biocultural diversity, recognising the various cultural roles of freshwater species as a key aspect of their conservation. Her work explores biodiversity in all its forms (species, cultural, functional, and phylogenetic) and how these can be integrated into the conservation of freshwaters as socioecological systems. Phoebe is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries. She is also a National Geographic Explorer and an associate senior research fellow at Himalayan Nature, Nepal.

Sibylle is coordinator of sustainability and biodiversity research at the IGB and experienced in the science-policy interface as it pertains to light pollution. In BioAgora, she is engaged in the research on freshwater biodiversity and she will coordinate the input for the freshwater knowledge exchange network within all associated WPs and tasks.

Sonja Jähnig's research focuses on the impacts of global change in freshwater ecosystems, combining hydrology, community ecology, conservation, and ecological modeling approaches. Sonja is head of the Department Community and Ecosystem Ecology and leads a research group on Aquatic Ecogeography at IGB. In BioAgora, she is engaged in considering aspects related to freshwater biodiversity.

Twan's passion for fish ecology, biodiversity and nature conservation is a consistent thread throughout his scientific journey. Communication, dedication and perseverance form the foundation of his work. His expertise lies in conducting fundamental research, engaging with scientists and volunteers from diverse fields and offering constructive solutions that balance the needs of various stakeholders. Always on the lookout for innovative ways to foster collaboration among people and organizations, Twan is convinced that transboundary cooperation is key to the effective conservation of freshwater biodiversity.

Dani Villero is a researcher at CREAF. His work zeroes in on building bridges between landscape ecology and conservation policy. Its focus thus lies in understanding changes in spatial patterns of biodiversity over time with the aim of translating key findings for the development of more effective and evidence-based environmental decisions. In BioAgora, he is mainly involved in WP3 and WP1.

Helena Ramírez works for the Catalan Biodiversity Observatory which aims to enhance the organization, integration, accessibility and use of natural heritage and biodiversity data in Catalonia. In BioAgora, she is mainly involved in WP3 and WP1.

Lluís Brotons is a CSIC Research Scientist at CREAF in Spain. He is a landscape ecologists interested in the global impact on biodiversity and its implications to develop robust science-policy interfaces to deal with the current biodiversity crisis. He co-leads WP3 and is involved in WP1.

Attila Lenti is a political scientist and a PhD student in Economics with previous professional experience in Europe and Latin America and a strong background in governance issues. He works at the Environmental Social Science Research Group (ESSRG) as a researcher. In BioAgora, he is involved in WP1.

Eszter Kelemen is a senior researcher at ESSRG. She has a background in ecological economics. Her main research topic is the values and valuation of nature, with an emphasis on how diverse values can be taken up in policy processes. She leads WP5 and participates in WP1 and WP4.

Karmen Czett is a social science researcher with more than five years of experience and a keen interest in ecological issues and human-nature relations. She studied social science research at the Humboldt University of Berlin, where her research focused on ecofeminism and knowledge production. As a research fellow at ESSRG, she is working on projects related to biodiversity conservation and planetary health.

Zsófia Kollányi is a researcher at ESSRG, with a background in public health, public policy and economics. Her main interests are participatory methods and complexity in policy-making. She takes part in WP4 and WP5.

Alexandra is a Communications Officer at Pensoft, with experience in communications, policy, and academia. She is also an early-career researcher and PhD student, her thesis being in the field of environmental economics and new institutional economics. In her academic studies she explores the impact of digital technologies on crucial environmental indicators. In BioAgora, she is involved in WP7.

Peter Bozakov serves as a Communications Officer at Pensoft Publishers. His background involves the disciplines of international relations, European and East Asian policy, and public relations. Following an academic journey in the United Kingdom as well as Germany, he attained work experience spanning from Singapore’s start-up scene to the EU institutions in Brussels. This allowed him to familiarise himself with the tenets of targeted communication with a wide variety of stakeholders. His work on BioAgora revolves around WP7.

Kinga Krauzer is a senior researcher in ERCE PAN with a PhD in ecology. She has experience in: ecosystem service assessment, integrated water management in rural and urban areas; implementation of nature-based solutions; analysis of the impact of social, cultural and economic factors on environmental quality. In Bioagora, she is involved in different WPs: 1, 2, 4, 5 and several KENs. She is also active in Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) and ALTER-Net. 

Renata Włodarczyk-Marciniak is a researcher at ERCE PAN. She has a background in sociology, ecology and environmental protection. Her research interests mainly include social-ecological systems, ecosystem services and their socio-cultural valuation, transformation of the urban and rural landscapes and their causes and consequences. In BioAgora, Renata is mainly involved in WP1, WP2 and WP5.

Maëva Voltz is a Consultant in EU funding at Euronovia. She has a background in international communication and several years of experience with EU collaborative projects. Within BioAgora, she is part of WP7 to support BioAgora's communication and dissemination activities.

Marie Garcia is a consultant in EU funding at Euronovia. She has more than 10 years experience in coordinating and managing EU collaborative projects (Coordination & Support Actions and Research and Innovation Actions) in various fields (energy, environment, SSH, etc.). Within BioAgora, she takes part in WP6 to support SYKE in the management of this ambitious project.

Amy Wortel is a junior researcher at Wageningen Environmental Research. She has a background in ecology and nature conservation policy. In her work, she focusses on social ecological transitions. She contributes to BioAgora's task on the transformative potential of networks.

Dr Judith Westerink is senior researcher Landscape Governance at Wageningen Environmental Research. Her focus is on farming and ecology from a perspective of behaviour, farming systems, collaboration, governance and transformative change. She is involved in several science-policy-practice networks. In BioAgrora, she leads a task on Transformative Potential of Networks.

Socrates Schouten is a PhD researcher of Transformative Landscape Governance at Wageningen Environmental Research. In his research, he focuses on theories of change of networks, crossing across sociocultural boundaries as well as looking at landscape governance and science-policy-society interfaces.

Nikita Sharma, PhD is the project officer at the European Citizen Science Association. Her research interests include urban planning, urban governance and the circular waste economy. In BioAgora, she leads Task 5.4, reaching policy impact through citizen science. She is also involved in WP1 and WP6.

Jan-Claas Dajka is working at the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity in Oldenburg, Germany. There, his main focus is on marine biodiversity at the science-policy interface. He likes to work across disciplines so that marine biodiversity management and policy can be improved together.

Josie Antonucci di Carvalho is a postdoctoral researcher at the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB) in Oldenburg, Germany, working in the Marine Biodiversity Transfer Office. She contributes to the science-policy interface through her involvement in EU projects, with a focus on stakeholder engagement and knowledge synthesis.

Ana Elisa Lambert recently completed her PhD at the University of Manchester, focusing on how science-policy organisations represent the social dimensions of environmental change, with a specific focus on the Amazon Basin. She holds a BSc in Environmental Engineering from ITESO and a Master’s in Environmental Management from Yale University. Ana has worked on illegal wildlife trade, biodiversity conservation, climate adaptation, and environmental governance across Latin America, Africa, and Australia.

Claire Brown is a Principal Technical Specialist and has over 20 years experience working on the science-policy interface and provides strategic oversight to a portfolio of projects on ecosystem services, ecosystem assessments and natural capital accounting from a technical and policy angle. Claire also sits on a number of Advisory Boards for research projects and is an observer to the Monitoring and Assessment Subgroup to the EU.  

Lisa Norton is a senior scientist at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. She works on both long-term national ecological monitoring programmes and on interdisciplinary approaches alongside social and natural scientists. Her aim in this is to understand farming impacts on biodiversity and wider ecosystem service provision.

Michael Pocock is a researcher in biodiversity and citizen science. From co-design and innovation to engaging people with projects and using the data for environmental and biodiversity monitoring, he seeks to build the evidence base for best practice in citizen science.