Johannes Klumpers leads the Scientific Advice Mechanism Unit (SAM) in the European Commission since its establishment in October 2015. The Unit supports the Commission’s Group of Chief Scientific Advisors who, as their name suggests, give science advice to the European Commissioners. The Group of Advisors– with support by the Unit- collaborates in this endeavour with five European Science Academy Networks.

The Unit also supports the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE), which also advises the Commissioners. Finally, the Unit develops policies on research integrity and assesses Horizon 2020 applications and projects according to their ethical and some legal characteristics.

Silvia Curado, Ph.D. holds a position as Research Assistant Professor at the New York University (NYU) and is the Scientific Program Manager of the NYU Nanomedicine Center (NYU Medical Center, Columbia Univ. and Univ. of Pennsylvania) and Europe (Weizmann Institute, ETH Zurich, Imperial College of London, Stuttgart Univ.) aiming at improving cell therapy by manipulating cell differentiation through mechanical stimuli. Previously she carried out her postdoctoral work at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) on regenerative medicine. She holds a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Genetics and Molecular / Developmental Biology (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany). Throughout her career she has, in parallel to her research, been involved in multiple leadership activities and has received a Certificate in Business Administration (University of California, Berkeley), co­founded the Business Club at UCSF and served as consultant at the UCSF QB3 New Ventures Consulting Program.

João Rocha is, since 1999, Professor at the Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, Portugal, and Director of CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials. Ph.D. in 1991 from the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, followed by a one year post-doc in the same department. He has published ca. 500 research papers and 4 patents, which have received over 16,000 citations (Scopus h index 60), and gave over 200 invited talks at conferences. He has mentored 40 post-docs and 25 PhD students, coordinated over two-dozen projects, and consulted widely for industry.

He is member of the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC) and of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and ChemPubSoc Europe. Received the Madinabeitia-Lourenço award from the Real Sociedad Española de Química (2015) and the prize for Scientific Excellence from the Portuguese Science Foundation (2005). His present research interests encompass materials chemistry, nanosystems, X-ray diffraction and solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance."

Senior researcher at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (ITAS-KIT) Professor with habilitation at Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCT-UNL) New University of Lisbon. He is member of the Scientific Board of CICS.NOVA centre. Coordinator of the PhD programme on Technology Assessment at Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Faculty of Sciences and Technology), Caparica Founder of the Studies Group on Technology Assessment (GrEAT) and of the Observatory of Technology Assessment (OAT/CICS.NOVA) in Portugal.

Coordinator of the PhD Programme on "Technology Assessment" at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (Universidade Nova de Lisboa-UNL).

Sociologist, specialized in the Labour and Organizations domain (ISCTE, 1980), Sociology Assistant in Universidade dos Açores (1980-83) and in Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (UNL) from 1983 to 1992.

Is Researcher at ITAS-Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and also Associate Professor (since 1999) of Industrial Sociology at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (UNL), (was Assistant Professor from 1992 to 1999). Was "Gastwissenschaftler" at the ITAS-Institute of Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis from Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe during 2007-08, and at the Fraunhofer Institut für Systemtechnik und Innovationsforschung (ISI-FhG), from 2002 to 2004. Was "Visiting Researcher" at the Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (1999).

He is an executive elected member of the Research Committees RC23 on Sociology of Science and Technology (2014-18), and RC30 Sociology of Work (1998-2002) of ISA-International Sociological Association. Was also Portuguese representative in the Steering Committee of "European Social Survey" organized by European Science Foundation (Strasbourg, France), from 1997 to 2001. From 2006 is the Portuguese member at TC9 of International Federation of Information Processing - IFIP.

Participated in evaluation activities regarding the Programs EUREKA, BRITE, COMETT, SPRINT, ESPRIT, FAST, VALUE, TSER, ADAPT Initiative (European Commission), “EUROCORES Programme for European Collaborative Research Projects” and "“Research Networking Programmes” both at the European Science Foundation .

Arlindo Oliveira licenciou-se pelo Instituto Superior Técnico e doutorou-se pela Universidade da Califórnia em Berkeley, em Engenharia Eletrotécnica e de Computadores. É presidente do Instituto Superior Técnico e professor do Departamento de Engenharia Informática, onde lecciona, entre outras, disciplinas nas áreas de Algoritmos, Biologia Computacional e Neuroengenharia. Tem desenvolvido trabalho de investigação em sistemas digitais, síntese lógica, algoritmia, aprendizagem automática e bioinformática. É autor de mais de 100 artigos e de três livros, entre os quais “The Digital Mind”, editado pela MIT Press e recentemente lançado em Portugal sob o título «Mentes Digitais».

Elvira Fortunato is a full professor in the Materials Science Department of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the New University of Lisbon, a Fellow of the Portuguese Engineering Academy, and decorated as a Grand Officer of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator by the President of the Republic in 2010, due to her scientific achievements worldwide.

Fortunato pioneered European research on transparent electronics, namely thin-film transistors based on oxide semiconductors, demonstrating that oxide materials can be used as true semiconductors. In 2008, she received in the 1st ERC edition an Advanced Grant for the project “Invisible”, considered a success story. In the same year she demonstrated with her colleagues the possibility to make the first paper transistor, starting a new field in the area of paper electronics.

Fortunato published over 500 papers and during the last 10 years received more than 16 International prizes and distinctions for her work.

Currently she is the director of the Institute of Nanomaterials, Nanofabrication and Nanomodeling and of CENIMAT. She is member of the board of trustees of Luso-American Foundation (Portugal/USA, 2013-2020).

Maria Helena Nazaré is, since 2016, the president of the Portuguese Higher Education Council, since July 2017, the president of the Board of Trustees of University Nova de Lisboa and a member of Board of Trustees of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos in Portugal, since 2013.

Has been President of the European University Association, 2011- 2015, Vice-President 2009-2011 (elected President in 2011). Served the Portuguese National Education Council as Chair of its Higher Education Commission 2009-2012. Member of the governing Board of University Nova de Lisboa 2014-2017.

Was elected Rector of the University of Aveiro for the first time in 2002 and reelected for a second mandate in 2006-2010. Has been the chair of the Portuguese Rectors Conference Committee for research and knowledge - transference, and a Member of the Research Working Group of the European University Association.

Member of the EUA Institutional Evaluation Pool, since 2004, has participated in the evaluation of universities in Spain, Turkey, Palestine, Slovenia, Kazakhstan, Romania and Ghana. Has also participated in OECD lead projects: in Catalonia, Lombardy and HEInnovate in Bulgaria, Ireland and The Neterlands, ENQA evaluations in Galiza and Finland and World Bank projects evaluation in Nigeria.

Outside academia she served as member of the Administration Board of Aveiro Maritime Harbour 1998-2002, member of the Administration Board of Portugal Telecom 2008-2015, President of the Advisory Board of Fundação Galp Energia and President of the Portuguese Physics Society (2009-2013).

During 2016 was the thinker in residence for the KVAB, the Royal Academy for Sciences in Flanders.
Maria Helena Nazaré, trained as physicist, graduated (Master of Science-1972), from University of Lisbon, PhD from the University of London (King’s College London) in 1978 and habilitation from University of Aveiro in 1989. Obtained a full professorship in 1990. Has been Head of Department between 1988 and 1990, Vice-President of the Scientific Council in 1990-91 and Vice-Rector of the University of Aveiro, a position held until 1998.

Honorary distinctions:
- Grã Cruz da Ordem de Instrução Pública ( 2015)
- Chanceler das ordens de Mérito since March 2016.

Graduated in Industrial Engineering (1984) and PhD in Polymer Engineering in 1991.

Rector of University of Minho since 2009.

President of the Portuguese Rectors Conference since 2014.

Full Professor of the Polymer Engineering Department (DEP) of University of Minho (UMinho).

Research activity at IPC (Institute for Polymers and Composites – I3N Associate Laboratory), UMinho, developing several projects under the frame of national and European programmes, in the fields of structure development in polymer processing, non-conventional moulding techniques and tools and natural polymers.

Author of 120 refereed ISI papers, 3 books (editor) and 4 patents.

Dean of the School of Engineering of UMinho from 2005 to 2009.

Chairman of Instituto Internacional Casa de Mateus and of CEER Foundation (consortium of the Northern Portugal and Galician Universities).

Member of the Portuguese Academy of Engineering.

Golden Insignia of the University of Santiago de Compostela.

Gold Medal and Honorary Citizen of Guimarães.

Guilherme d’Oliveira Martins is Former Minister of Finance and Education; Member of the Board, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, SC, IEP-UCP, Lisbon.

Guilherme d’Oliveira Martins, born on 1952, has a Master Degree in Juridical and Economic Science (Universidade de Lisboa). He is currently President of the National Centre for Culture, Trustee of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and University Professor at the Universidade Lusíada and at Universidade Técnica de Lisboa.

He is also a Correspondent member of the Portuguese Academy of Sciences, Member of the Portuguese Naval Academy and Member of merit of the Portuguese Academy of History. Mr. Oliveira Martins has held several ministerial positions and is a member of several international and national institutions. He is also author of several books and was awarded several insignias.

Paulo Ferrão is President of the Board of Directors of the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT). He had been the director of the MIT-Portugal programme since 2006, a strategic partnership set up between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and several Portuguese universities and research centres, supported and funded by FCT.

Paulo Ferrão is Full Professor at the Instituto Superior Técncio (IST) of the Universidade de Lisboa, where he leads the IST Energy Initiative, the PhD Programme in Sustainable Energy Systems and the IN+ research centre, for Studies in Innovation, Technology and Policy Research.

With a widely acknowledged international career, Paulo Ferrão is a member of the U.S. National Academies Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability, of The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, where he also sits on the Committees on Pathways to Urban Sustainability and on Sustainability Linkages in the Federal Government. He is a member of the Environmental Advisory Board to Rolls Royce, an MIT Research Affiliate, associate and past board member of the International Society for Industrial Ecology.

His scientific interests are focused in the areas of energy and industrial ecology, in which he has carried out research into waste and urban systems management. In this framework, Paulo Ferrão coordinated the working groups that established Portuguese plans for waste management – PNGR-Plano Nacional de Gestão de Resíduos and PERSU 2020 (Plano estratégico para os resíduos urbanos). He is co-author of the book “Sustainable Urban metabolism”, published by MIT-Press in 2013, and of “Urban metabolism of six Asian cities”, published by the Asian Development Bank, in 2014. Paulo Ferrão was born in Lisbon, in 1962.

Sara Sá has studied Space Engineering and after a brief experience in the field, specialized in Science Journalism. Since 2001 is a permanent journalist at Visão Newsmagazine, covering the topics of science, health and environment. Has been awarded, twice, the journalism prize of Liga Portuguesa Contra o Cancro, and the Unesco prize of Integration and Ethnic Minorities. Is the co-author of the book Cem Mitos Sem Lógica.

Rosalia Vargas is the President of Ciência Viva – National Agency for Scientific and Technological Culture, Portugal, and Director of the Lisbon Science Center: Pavilion of Knowledge. She has been leading the creation of a network of science centers in Portugal, since 1996, currently with 20 members. She is also President of Ecsite (European Network of Museums and Science Centers).

Her academic and professional development covers Education, Media Studies, Political Governance, and Scientific and Technological Culture:

- Benchmarking Study on Scientific Culture for the European Commission (2002);
- Board Member for ECSITE – European Network of Science Centres and Museums (2001-2007);
- Member of the International Programme Committee of 5th Science Centre World Congress (2004-2008);
- Member of the National Council of Education 2006-2012);
- Elected City Councilor for Education, Youth and Culture at Lisbon City Hall (2007-2009);
- Member of Editorial Board Harvard Medical School Portugal (2010-2012);
- National Delegate for Science in Society at the 17 7th Framework Programme of Research and Development, European Commission (2007–2012);
- Member of Advisory board of The Danish National Center for Education in Nature, Technology and Health;
- Member of Advisory Board of two High Schools in Lisbon;
- Member of Advisory Board for Cooperation between Portuguese Republic and Angola Republic.

Executive Director at iMM Lisboa since 2014. PhD (1998) in Molecular Parasitology at University College London, UK. Post-doctoral research at New York University Medical Center, USA (1999-2001). Principal Investigator at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras (2002-2005). Professor at the Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa (since 2005). European Science Foundation Young Investigator (2004-2009). International Research Scholar Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA (2005-2010).

António Granado is an assistant professor of Journalism at FCSH/UNL.

For the last 25 years, he has been working as a science journalist, mainly at Público, one of Portugal’s main daily quality newspapers, where he also was science editor, sub-editor-in-chief, managing editor and online editor.

He holds a MSc on Science Journalism from Boston University, in the US, and PhD on Communication Sciences from the University of Leeds, in the UK. As an academic, he has taught at several Portuguese universities. As a journalist, he has written extensively about science and the environment. He coordinates, together with Ana Sanchez, the Science Communication Master program at UNL.

He holds a Doctorate in Theoretical Physics from the University of Frankfurt and is Professor of Physics at the University of Coimbra. He is author of Física Divertida, Nova Física Divertida and co-author of Darwin aos Tiros e Outras Histórias de Ciência (Gradiva), among many other books, some of which have been translated and published abroad. He was director the General Library of the University of Coimbra and is in charge of Rómulo – the University’s Life Science Centre and the “History of Science in the University of Coimbra” project. He has received various prizes and distinctions, amongst them the Rómulo de Carvalho Prize, the SIC and Caras Golden Globe and the Order of Infante D. Henrique.

Full Professor of Philosophy of Law, Moral and Politics. Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics at the University of Barcelona. Director of the Bioethics and Law Observatory and of the Master in Bioethics and Law at the University of Barcelona. Coordinator of the Consolidated Research Group “Bioethics, Law and Society” of the Catalonian Government. Member of the National Commission on Forensic Uses of DNA and of the Bioethics Commission at the University of Barcelona. Past member of the Spanish Bioethics Committee and of the Catalonian Bioethics Committee. Past member of the Board of Directors at the International Bioethics Association. Member of the Working Group on Ethics in Horizon 2020 of the League of European Research Universities (LERU). “Narcís Monturiol” Medal for its pioneer contribution in the field of bioethics and human rights to scientific and technological progress in Catalonia.

She is Doctor in Law, Full Professor of Legal, Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of Barcelona (UB), UNESCO Bioethics Chair at the UB and director of the Observatory of Bioethics and Law Research Centre of the UB-PCB; coordinator of: the Consolidated Bioethics, Law and Society Research Group for the Regional Authorities of Catalunya, the Thematic Network of Bioethics and Human Rights and the Network for the Joint Teaching of Bioethics. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Bioethics, the Advisory Committee on Bioethics of Catalunya and the National DNA Commission.

Ana Sofia Carvalho, is Associate Professor with Aggregation in Bioethics and director of the Instituto de Bioética and the Chair holder of the Portuguese UNESCO Chair in Bioethics of Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP). She has been recently appointed as a member of the European Group on Ethics in Science and Technology (EGE).

She is the coordinator of the Doctoral Program in Bioethics and of the Office of Ethical Evaluation and Science Integrity in the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. Member of the National Council on Ethics in the Life Sciences, elected by the Council of Rectors of Portuguese Universities (Parliament). Expert for ethics evaluation of the European Commission since FP6 (Marie Curie Grants, European Research Council, European Commission DG Research & Innovation Directorate F - Health, European Commission DG Research & Innovation Directorate B - European Research Area B.6: Ethics and gender).

Director of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Head of Health and Human Development Department, (2009-12) and Gulbenkian Programme for Innovation in Health (2012-). Professor of Pathology, Lisbon Medical School (2006-13). Director of the Pathology Department of Lisbon Cancer Institute (1985-2009). Director of the Institute of Forensic Sciences at Lisbon (2001-03). Professor of Legal Medicine and Ethics, Lisbon Medical School (2001-03). Professor of Pathology, Medical Sciences Faculty (1996-2006). Member (chair 27) of the Academy of Medicine of Portugal and Academico Correspondiente de la Real Academia Nacional de España (1999). Member of “Conselho Nacional de Ética para as Ciências da Vida” (2003-08). National Expert at the 3rd “Europe Against Cancer” Council of the European Union. Chairman of the Steering Committee - Pathology Group of the Organization of European Cancer Institutes, 1997-99. Member of the Scientific Council for Health Sciences - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, 2005-09 and Chairman, 2013-

Past-President of the Portuguese Society of Pathology (1997-99), Portuguese Society of Senology (2004-06), and Sociedade das Ciências Médicas de Lisboa (2003-05). Member of the Governing Board of the Program Harvard Medical School-Portugal, 2011-

Chairman of the External Committee for the Quality in Education, Public Health Nacional School, 2011-

Areas of scientific interest: oncology, head&neck and breast pathology (more than 150 papers in peer review journals and 1,100 personal citations)

Christiane Woopen is Professor for Ethics and Theory of Medicine at the University of Cologne. There she is Executive Director of the Cologne Center for Ethics, Rights, Economics, and Social Sciences of Health (ceres). She is as well Head of Research Unit Ethics and vice dean for academic development and gender at University Medicine Cologne. She is coordinator and leader of several international and national research projects concerning ethical aspects of reproductive medicine, neuroethics, quality of life, aging, genome editing as well as health and society in the digital age. She is former chair of the German Ethics Council and President of the 11th Global Summit of National Ethics/Bioethics Committees 2016. Amongst others she was member of the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO until 2017. In 2017 she was appointed Chair of the European Group on Ethics of Science and New Technologies (EGE), which advises the European Commission. In July 2018 she was appointed co-chair of the newly established Data Ethics Commission of the German Government.

Maria da Graça Carvalho is currently member of the Unit “Scientific Advice Mechanism” of the Directorate-General Research and Innovation of the European Commission. She was a senior advisor of Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation from November 2014 to December 2015. She was a member of the European Parliament in the EPP group since July 2009 to May 2014. In the capacity she was one of the rapporteurs of Horizon 2020. She has been Principal Adviser of President Barroso in the areas of Science, Higher Education, Innovation, Research Policy, Energy, Environment and Climate Change from 2006 to 2009.

She has been Minister of Science and Higher Education of the XV Constitutional Government of Portugal and Minister of Science, Innovation and Higher Education of the XVI Constitutional Government. She is a Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon).

Deputy Chair Professor of Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Professor Dykstra has a chair in Empirical Sociology and is Director of Research of the
Department of Public Administration and Sociology at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Previously, she had a chair in Kinship Demography at Utrecht University (2002-2009) and was a
senior scientist at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) in The Hague
(1990-2009).

Her publications focus on intergenerational solidarity, aging societies, family change, aging and
the life course, and late-life well-being.

She is an elected member of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW,
2004) and Vice-President of the KNAW as of 2011, elected Member of the Dutch Social
Sciences Council (SWR, 2006), and elected Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America
(2010). In 2012 she received an ERC Advanced Investigator Grant for the research project
“Families in context”, which will focus on the ways in which policy, economic, and cultural
contexts structure interdependence in families.

She was born in Vienna and studied law at the University of Vienna.

She is currently holding the UNESCO Chair on Bioethics at the Medical University of Vienna and also serves as Director of Ethics, Collections and History of Medicine of the Medical University of Vienna. 2007 she has been appointed President of the Austrian National Bioethics Commission by the Austrian Federal Chancellor. Furthermore she is a member of the Medical Council of the Republic of Austria and serves in many international functions.

From 2011 to 2015 she was Vice-Rector for Clinical Affairs at the Vienna Medical University Before that she has been managing director of the Ethics Committee at the Vienna Medical University (1992-2011). Christiane Druml was Member of the International Bioethics Committee IBC of UNESCO from 2008 to 2015 and serves since 2006 as Austrian Member of the General Assembly of the “European and Developing Countries Clinical Trial Partnership- EDCTP”.

She has been awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Arts, and was named Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in 2011.

Stefano Semplici is professor of Social Ethics at Rome Tor Vergata University, where he teaches also Moral Philosophy and is a member of the teaching board of the PhD in Philosophy (jointly organized with The University of “Roma Tre”). He is the chair (since 2014) of the Committee for Bioethics of the Italian Society of Pediatrics and an Associate Editor of the journal «Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy» (since 2010). He was the Chair of the International Bioethics Committe of UNESCO from 2011 to 2015, Editor and later Coeditor (from 2015 to 2017) of the journal «Archivio di filosofia/Archives of Philosophy», and Scientific Director of the University College «Lamaro-Pozzani».

Among his most recent books:
- The subject of irony (Il soggetto dell’ironia, Padova, Cedam, 2002);
- Bioethics. Questions, conflicts, laws (Bioetica. Le domande, i conflitti, le leggi, Brescia, Morcelliana, 2007);
- Eleven thesis on bioethics (Undici tesi di bioetica, Brescia, Morcelliana, 2009);
- An invitation to bioethics (Un invito alla bioetica, Brescia, la Scuola, 2011);
- Inclusive Constitution. A Challenge for Democracy (Costituzione inclusiva. Una sfida per la democrazia, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2015).

Director of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Head of Health and Human Development Department, (2009-12) and Gulbenkian Programme for Innovation in Health (2012-). Professor of Pathology, Lisbon Medical School (2006-13). Director of the Pathology Department of Lisbon Cancer Institute (1985-2009). Director of the Institute of Forensic Sciences at Lisbon (2001-03). Professor of Legal Medicine and Ethics, Lisbon Medical School (2001-03). Professor of Pathology, Medical Sciences Faculty (1996-2006). Member (chair 27) of the Academy of Medicine of Portugal and Academico Correspondiente de la Real Academia Nacional de España (1999). Member of “Conselho Nacional de Ética para as Ciências da Vida” (2003-08). National Expert at the 3rd “Europe Against Cancer” Council of the European Union. Chairman of the Steering Committee - Pathology Group of the Organization of European Cancer Institutes, 1997-99. Member of the Scientific Council for Health Sciences - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, 2005-09 and Chairman, 2013-

Past-President of the Portuguese Society of Pathology (1997-99), Portuguese Society of Senology (2004-06), and Sociedade das Ciências Médicas de Lisboa (2003-05). Member of the Governing Board of the Program Harvard Medical School-Portugal, 2011-

Chairman of the External Committee for the Quality in Education, Public Health Nacional School, 2011-

Areas of scientific interest: oncology, head&neck and breast pathology (more than 150 papers in peer review journals and 1,100 personal citations)