Organisation

February 21, 2024 Updated by Zhixuan Li

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Steering Committee

The steering committee is responsible for the overall coordination of SwissRN activity and strategy.

Institution	Unit	Name
University of Zürich	Faculty of Science and Faculty of Medicine, Center for Reproducible Science	Leonhard Held
ETH Zürich	Department of Mathematics, NEXUS Personalized Health Technologies	Daniel Stekhoven
University of Geneva	Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Swiss Open Psychological Science Initiative	Evie Vergauwe
University of Bern	Vetsuisse Faculty Bern, Swiss 3R Competence Centre	Hanno Würbel

Institutions

Member institutions of the SwissRN are formally committed to support the aims of SwissRN and have begun implementing them. Current institutional members are:

Institution		Contact person
FernUni Schweiz / UniDistance Suisse		Prof. Dr. Nicolas Rothen, Vice-Rector for Research
University of Basel		Dr. Frank Neumann, Head Research Office
University of Bern		Prof. Dr. Hugues Abriel, Vice Rector for Research
University of Geneva		Prof. Dr. Brigitte Galliot, Vice-Rector of Research
University of Fribourg		Prof. Dr. Bernhard Ries, Vice Rector International Relations, Digitalisation and Interdisciplinarity
University of Zurich		Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Stark, Vice President Research
Università della Svizzera italiana		Prof. Dr. Patrick Gagliardini, Pro-Rector for Research
Zurich University of Applied Sciences		Prof. Dr. Andreas Gerber-Grote, Head of Research and Development
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich		Prof. Dr. Christian Wolfrum, Vice President Research

Become a SwissRN Institution

We expect that institutions seeking membership of SwissRN will want to develop capacity to deliver a research improvement strategy, and to work with SwissRN to develop a strategy for ensuring the sustainability of SwissRN in the medium- and long-term, and to build a community of institutions focused on research improvement.

Interested institutions please send an email to Manuela Höfler.

Stakeholders

Stakeholders who support the SwissRN form the Stakeholder Engagement Group with the goal of

aligning SwissRN activity with the strategy and activity of the stakeholders
allowing the exchange of ideas
facilitating feedback on new stakeholder initiatives

Institution		Contact person
Swiss National Science Foundation		Dr. Katrin Milzow, head of strategy
Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences		Dr. Marianne Bonvin Cuddapah, Managing Director
FORS - Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences		Dr. Marieke Heers
Swiss Psychological Society		Prof. Dr. Matthias Kliegel
Swiss 3R Competence Center		Dr. Armand Mensen

Become a stakeholder in SwissRN

Potential stakeholders include funders (both governmental and charity) and non-profit organisations that are part of the academic environment. To become a member of the Stakeholder Engagement Group an organization has to provide direct financial support or support in kind to SwissRN and is required to agree to our mission and values.

If you would like to become a member of the Stakeholder Engagement Group of the Swiss Reproducibility Network, please send an email to Manuela Höfler.

Advisory Board

An external Advisory Board comprising academics from the international research community with expertise related to the goals of the network supports the steering committee regarding strategy and direction.

Institution	Unit/Function	Name
Tilburg University	Department of Methodology	Michèle B. Nuijten
University of Bristol	School of Psychological Science	Marcus Munafo
National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research	Head of Experimental Design and Reporting	Nathalie Percie Du Sert
Former head of Competence Centre for Methodology and Statistics at the Luxembourg Institute of Health	Statistical Consultancy for the Pharmaceutical Industry	Stephen Senn