Andrea GrignolioCiara GreeneMaria Antonietta De LucaGeert Ramakers

Andrea Grignolio, Interdepartmental Center for Research Ethics and Integrity at CNR – National Research Council, Italy

Andrea Grignolio teaches History of Medicine and Bioethics at V.-S. San Raffaele University Milan and at Interdep. Center for Research Ethics and Integrity of National Research Council (CNR). He studied at the Centre Cavaillès of ‘École Normale Supérieure of Paris and did his research and post-doctoral fellow at Boston University. He was also a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, and a research fellow at the University François Rabelais of Tours. At CNR, he is a member of the Scientific Secretariat of the Research Ethics and Bioethics Committee, scientific director of the Vaccine Hesitancy Forum and the Research Integrity Training Unit. Since 2021, he has been the coordinator of the G-20 Italy Policy Paper on a Global Health Literacy Alliance.

Dr Grignolio is the author of papers that appeared in international journals and of the books Vaccines: “Are They Worth a Shot?” (Springer 2018); together with Cattaneo E., De Falco J., “Ogni Giorno. Tra Scienza e Politica”, 2016 (Every day. Between science and politics); with Beccaria G., “Scienza&Democrazia”, 2014 (Science & Democracy).

 

Ciara Greene, University College Dublin, Ireland

Ciara Greene is an Associate Professor at University College Dublin, where she leads the Attention and Memory lab. She earned her BA in Psychology and PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from Trinity College Dublin and completed postdoctoral fellowships at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge and Imperial College London. Ciara is also a Fulbright Scholar. Her research interests include the effects of misinformation and “fake news” on cognition and behaviour. Her research is funded by the Irish Research Council and the Health Research Board of Ireland.

 

 

Maria Antonietta De Luca, University of Cagliari, Italy

Maria Antonietta De Luca is an Associate Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Cagliari (Italy), where she obtained her PhD in Pharmacology of Drug Abuse. She developed strong expertise in neurochemistry and behavioural pharmacology, with a major focus on the role of mesolimbic and mesocortical dopaminergic transmission in the origin of addiction. She has over 20 years of experience with in vivo microdialysis in rodents for monitoring brain monoamines following administration of drugs of abuse and natural rewards, and extensive knowledge of animal models of drug addiction with particular reference to the rewarding properties of cannabinoids,  opioids, and Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS).

 

 

Geert Ramakers, UMC Utrecht, Netherlands

Geert Ramakers is an Associate Professor at the Department of Translational Neuroscience at the UMC Utrecht. He obtained his PhD degree in Utrecht (1995), did a postdoc in Utrecht (1995 – 1997) and Oslo at the department of Physiology (1998 – 2000). In 2000, he was appointed at the UMC Utrecht as Assistant Professor and in 2014 as Associate Professor at the Department of Translational Neuroscience. His research focuses on cellular and synaptic plasticity; he wants to know how neurons integrate synaptic signals and convert these signals into output signals(action potentials). In addition to his research efforts, Geert is coordinator of the neurotrack within the bachelor of Biomedical Sciences, the master’s programme in Neuroscience and Cognition and the PhD program in Clinical and Experimental Neuroscience. He is chair of the Educational Committee of the bachelor of Biomedical Sciences at Utrecht University and a former member of the Committee of Higher Education and Training of FENS.