Initiating Steering Group

Roosmarijn Vandenbroucke is professor at UGent and VIB, Belgium and heads the Barriers in Inflammation lab.

Patrick Onghena is professor of educational and behavioral statistics and methodology at KU Leuven, Belgium.

Christophe Phillips is an FRS-FNRS Research Director and Associate Professor at the University of Liège, Belgium.

Bert Seghers works at the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts


Julia Eberlen is logisticienne de recherche/research manager at the faculty of psychology, ULB.
Local Nodes

Judith Biernaux works as part of the research support team at the Université de Liège

Jamie Cummins, postdoctoral research in cognitive psychology at Ghent University

Tine Verdonck, PhD, MD, works at the Institute for Tropical Medicine, Antwerp


Patrick Onghena is professor of educational and behavioral statistics and methodology at KU Leuven, Belgium.
Julia Eberlen is logisticienne de recherche/research manager at the faculty of psychology, ULB.
Advisory Board



Etienne Roesch is Associate Professor (Cognitive Sciences) at the University of Reading, Member of the UKRN, Institutional Lead for Open and Reproducible Research at the University of Reading
Evie Vergauwe Associate Professor and SNSF Eccellenza Fellow in experimental and theoretical psychology at the University of Geneva. She is part of the steering board of the Swiss RN
Véronique Kiermer is a molecular biologist and the Chief Scientific Officer at PLOS,

Ulf Tölch leads a research group at the BIH QUEST Center for Responsible Research @ Charité – Berlin, Germany. Since 2017, he is part of the QUEST Center to work on meta-scientific approaches to improve preclinical evidence.He focuses in particular on strategies to improve the validity and reliability of experimental approaches both in vivo and in vitro. He leads the working group “Systemic Perspectives in Translational Biomedicine.” In addition to his research, he also develops educational formats to promote responsible science and reproducible research. He is co-organizer of the “Berlin|Oxford Summer School on Responsible Research” and co-chair of the “German Reproducibility Network“.
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