Sounding Board Researchers

The SB R is composed of 17 ORD experts from different disciplines and career levels. Their mandate includes the advice of the Strategy Council (StraCo) and the Coordination Group (CoG).
Co-Chairs

Dr. Iolanda Pensa
Social Anthropology, SUPSI
Photo Adam Novak / Wikimedia Foundation, CC BY-SA.

Prof. Dr. med. Michael Baudis
Board Members
Jean-Paul Calbimonte (Informatics, HES-SO Valais-Wallis)
Research topics: Knowledge Management, Data Semantics, eHealth & Data Streams
jean-paul.calbimonte@hevs.ch ORCID: 0000-0002-0364-6945
Peter Klaver (Psychology, University of Teacher Education in Special Needs)
Research topics: Working Memory, Psychosocial Intervention, Cognitive Development & Brain Imaging
peter.klaver@hfh.ch ORCID: 0000-0002-6541-9975
Silke Fürst Communication Science and Media Research, University of Zurich)
Research topics: Journalism, Science Communication, Public Relations & Datafication
s.fuerst@ikmz.uzh.ch ORCID: 0000-0002-1978-4277
Dominik Brühwiler (Chemistry, ZHAW)
Research topics: Nanoparticles, Polymers, Nanopores & Host-Guest Materials
dominik.bruehwiler@zhaw.ch ORCID: 0000-0002-9284-5144
Elena Chestnova (Art History, USI)
Research topics: 19th Century Art Theory, Digital Methods for History, Popular Lectures on Art & Domesticity and Migration
elena.chestnova@usi.ch ORCID: 0000-0002-0654-1313
Adriana Marcucci (Engineering, ETH Zurich)
Research topics: Energy Policy, Energy Scenarios & Energy Economics
adriana.marcucci@esc.ethz.ch ORCID: 0000-0002-0427-9120
Michael Baudis (Bioinformatics, University of Zurich)
Research topics: Cancer Genomics, Biomedical Data Standards and Exchange Format
michael.baudis@uzh.ch ORCID: 0000-0002-9903-4248
Andrea Martani (Medicine, University of Basel)
Research topics: Health Policy on various domains (e.g. Use of Data in Biomedical Research, Assessment of New Biomedical Technologies)
andrea.martani@unibas.ch ORCID: 0000-0001-8387-7825
Noah Bubenhofer (Linguistics, University of Zurich)
Research topics: Sociolinguistics, Digital Humanities, Corpus Linguistics & Digital Linguistics
noah.bubenhofer@ds.uzh.ch ORCID: 0000-0002-2134-2013
Clemens Lange (Physics, Paul Scherrer Institute)
Research topics: Higgs Boson Physics & QCD, Searches for New Physics, Detector R&D & Scientific and Large-Scale Computing
clemens.lange@psi.ch ORCID: 0000-0002-3632-3157
Iolanda Pensa (Social Anthropology, SUPSI)
Research topics: Knowledge gaps and systems of knowledge production, co-production and distribution, Open digital strategies for GLAMs, digital and analog accessibility, inclusion and participation, Wikipedia, visualizing and monitoring Wikimedia content and open licenses
iolanda.pensa@supsi.ch ORCID: 0000-0001-5122-7385
Katerina Mitrokotsa (Informatics, University of St.Gallen)
Research topics: Applied Cryptography & Privacy Preservation
katerina.mitrokotsa@unisg.ch
Valerie Pittet (Engineering, University of Lausanne)
Research topics: Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Health Services Research & Cohorts and Registries
Valerie.Pittet@unisante.ch ORCID: 0000-0003-2208-966X
Dominique Roche (Biology, University of Neuchâtel)
Research topics: Data Sharing Practices, Reproducibility, Animal Behaviour & Ecophysiology
dominique.roche@unine.ch ORCID: 0000-0002-3326-864X
Johannes Schöning (Computer Science, University of St. Gallen)
Forschungsthemen: Human-Technology Interaction, Computer Science, AI, Usability, User Experience, User Interfaces
johannes.schoening@unisg.ch ORCID: 0000-0002-8823-4607
Moritz Mähr (Digital Humanities, University of Bern / Digital History, University of Basel)
Forschungsthemen: Science and Technology Studies (STS), Digital Humantities (DH),
History of Computing, Social network analysis and Graphics, Natural Language Processing
moritz.maehr@faculty.unibe.ch ORCID: 0000-0002-1367-1618
Raphaëlle Luisier (Bioengineering, Idiap Research Institute)
Forschungsthemen: Tumor immunology and immunotherapy, Genomics and precision medicine, cell division and cancer, Tumor microenvironment / tumor architecture
raphaelle.luisier@idiap.ch ORCID: 0000-0002-5657-2943
Previous Members
Evie Vergauwe (Psychology, University of Geneva)
Research topics: Human Cognition, Human Memory, Human Short-Term Memory, Cognitive Development & Child Cognition
Evie.Vergauwe@unige.ch ORCID: 0000-0002-7339-2370
Tobias Hodel (History, University of Bern)
Mandate Sounding Board Researchers 2023/2024
Research topics: Machine Learning, Big Data in the Humanities, Language Modeling & Critical Algorithm Studies
tobias.hodel@unibe.ch ORCID: 0000-0002-2071-6407