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.