Michela Massimi is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Edinburgh. She works on a range of topics in the history and philosophy of science and the epistemology of science, with a particular focus on realism and pluralism in science, perspectivism and situated knowledge. She was the PI of an ERC Consolidator Grant (2016-2021) and she is the author of the book Perspectival Realism (Oxford University Press, 2022). She was Vice-President of the European Philosophy of Science Association and she is President of the Philosophy of Science Association.
Co-Investigator (University of Aberdeen)
Professor Rachel Ankeny works at the intersection of history and philosophy of biomedical/biological sciences, science policy, and migration history. She is co-investigator on an Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) funded project entitled Improving Indigenous Research Capabilities: An Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research Data Commons, run by Prof Marcia Langton and the Indigenous Data Network (University of Melbourne).
Professor Margo Bagley is Professor of Law at Emory University, Georgia, USA. She works on patents and biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and access to medicines, technology transfer, IP and social justice. Bagley serves on National Academies Committee on Advancing Commercialization from the Federal Laboratories. She is an expert technical advisor to the African Union and serves in WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore.
Professor Sabina Leonelli is an expert in the philosophy, history and social studies of data-intensive science. Leonelli serves as Director of the Exeter Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences, and in 2016-2019 was a member of the Open Science Policy Platform of the European Commission and of the Global Young Academy, where she led the group preparing “Global Access to Open Software: The Forgotten Pillar of Open Science“, based on a survey in Ghana, Nigeria and Bangladesh.
Manuel Ruiz Muller was Director and Principal Researcher of the Peruvian Society for Environmental law (SPDA) in Lima, Peru from 2000 to 2016. He is now an advisor to SPDA and independent consultant and researcher. He has participated in the Peruvian delegation in the CBD Conference of the Parties (access to genetic resources, intellectual property rights, biosafety, indigenous people’s rights). He is a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme, Andean Community, Food and Agriculture Organization, World Resources Institute and WIPO.
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