Advisory, Ethics and Security Board

Jan Hrušák is a senior research fellow (c. 100 scientific papers, 3500 citations) at the Czech Academy of Sciences. He completed studies in physical chemistry and received PhD (Dr.rer.nat) in 1987 at the Technical University Leuna-Merseburg (Germany), before joining the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. In 1990, he moved to TU Berlin to work with H. Schwarz in theoretical chemistry. In 1995, he accepted a position at the J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry, where, after spending one year as a visiting professor at the Institute of Molecular Science at Okazaki (Japan), he has been working since.

Jan Hrušák served two terms in the executive body of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and he has been appointed for two years as Director General for research at the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports of the Czech Republic (MEYS). He is a longstanding ESFRI member (currently chair) and the Czech delegate to ERAC. Recently, he was appointed as a member/expert of the EOSC Steering Board. He acts as Special Envoy on Research infrastructures at the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports of the Czech Republic.

Michael Ryan is Head of the International Division at Research Ireland where he leads the agency’s international strategy and its EU & global operational activities. Prior to this he coordinated the agency’s European and EU Framework Programme activities as well as having responsibility for a diverse portfolio of awards representing a total investment of €150 million. He was founding chair for the creation of the organisation’s internal Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) strategy and action plan.

Michael has served on several international review panels and European Commission Expert Groups. He is a Board member to the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) and on the Advisory Board to the European Commission R&I Partnership platform, ERA-LEARN. Prior to this Michael worked in the private sector, which included partnering with global corporations in the US and Asia. His experience spans across a variety of activities that include global partnership creation, advising on policy development for government, scaleup of translational research facilities, and raising venture capital funds. Michael holds a PhD in Physical and Analytical Chemistry from University College Dublin.

Hanifeh Khayyeri has a PhD in Bioengineering from Trinity College Dublin. She has conducted research in several European universities before she started working with research policy and funding. Hanifeh has worked as special advisor at the largest public funder of research in Sweden with a specific focus on national and international research infrastructures, including e-infrastructures. She has been the Swedish delegate in several large-scale European RI's, such ESRF, Euro-XFEL and PRACE. As Sweden is the host of European Spallation Source, Hanifeh has also been working with the Swedish commitments around ESS as well as the national synchrotron infrastructure, MAX IV.

E-infrastructures for research is another focus area for Hanifeh where she has been the co-chair of European Open Science Cloud (2019-2021) and the Swedish delegate in the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking. Last year, Hanifeh was asked by the Ministry of Research and Education in Sweden to join a Commision of Inquiry on the governance, organisation and financing of research infrastructures. This Commission is part of the legislative process in Sweden when the government wants to make larger reforms; it submitted its report to the minister of research and higher education in July 2021. Today, Hanifeh is Vice-President of Computer Science at the RISE - Research Institutes of Sweden and is working closer with the industry needs, including test and demonstration facilities for Cybersecurity, AI and green data centers.

Olga Iermakova is a Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Department of Economic and Ecological Development of Seaside Regions, and Head of the Council of Young Scientists at the State Organization “Institute of Market and Economic & Ecological Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine”. She also serves as a part-time Professor at Odesa National Economic University and is a Member of the Scientific Committee of the National Council of Ukraine for Science and Technology Development.

She holds a Master’s degree in Management of Research Infrastructures from the University of Milano-Bicocca (2024), obtained under the EURIZON Fellowship Programme for Ukrainian Research Infrastructure Leaders. She is the initiator and author of the concept for the Blue Economy National Node of the Ukrainian Black Sea Region – UKRMARI.

Sanshiro Hosaka is a Research Fellow at the International Centre for Defence and Security in Tallinn, Estonia. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Tartu. Previously, he served as a project management officer for  Japan-funded intergovernmental committees, gaining extensive experience in international cooperation projects in the fields of nuclear legacy,  nonproliferation, and security in post-Soviet countries, including Ukraine. He is also a certified expert in the handling of radioactive materials.

Sanshiro worked at Japanese diplomatic missions in Tajikistan and Ukraine. In Kyiv, he monitored the situation on the front line in Donbas, as well as national elections, including as a short-term observer with the OSCE/ODIHR election observation mission in 2019.

His articles have been published in numerous international journals in the fields of intelligence and security studies and post-communist area studies. He received research awards from the Japanese Association for Russian and East European Studies in 2017 and the Japanese Association for Ukrainian Studies in 2022. His monograph on Russian intelligence history and tradecraft won the 32nd Yamamoto Shichihei Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences Publications in 2023. 

Henri Schasmin is an experienced information security, data protection, and defence research professional with more than 20 years of expertise in the public sector and academia. He currently serves as Defence and Security Coordinator, Head of the Centre for Defence and Security Technologies, and Personal Data Protection Officer at Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech). Since joining TalTech, he has held several increasingly responsible roles, including Defence and Security Research and Development Coordinator, Information Security Officer, and Information Security and Data Protection Manager. Previously, he served as an Information Security Officer within the administrative area of the Estonian Ministry of Defence. He has also contributed to the development of information security expert systems and has played an active role in promoting data protection awareness and professional training. He was involved in organizing Data Protection Officer training programs and has supported the activities of TalTech’s defence and security research initiatives.

Henri has studied Information Systems Analysis and Design and Digital Transformation in Business at Tallinn University of Technology. 

Among his qualifications is the Certified Data Protection Officer (Expert Level) certification awarded by Tallinn University of Technology. He has also completed the Security Manager Course organized by the United States European Command. In recognition of his professional contributions, Henri received a Letter of Appreciation from the Commander of the Estonian Defence Forces.