MSCA Conference speakers - Karen Stroobants
Karen Stroobants is a researcher, policy adviser and consultant on research policy and strategy, with a focus on research culture.
She manages a portfolio of activities, combining roles as (part-time) lead policy advisor on research landscape & economy for the Royal Society of Chemistry (the professional body for chemical scientists in the UK) and as freelance consultant, focusing most recently on contributing to the drafting of a European agreement on research assessment reform with DG-RTD, Science Europe and EUA.
Previously, she was a Research Leader at RAND Europe, where she took the lead on a range of projects in the "research on research" space, including development of a research strategy for a government authority and evaluation of policy measures. Before joining RAND, she worked in several policy advisory roles, for the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Society (the UK’s National Academy of Science), leading work in the areas of open science, sustainability, and research culture.
She then moved to the UK, initially to conduct research on the molecular basis of Alzheimer’s disease in the Dobson group at the University of Cambridge for which she received a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship. She received praise for this work from Nobel Laureate Sir John Walker during her participation at the Lindau Nobel Laureates meeting in 2017.
In 2015, she obtained a PhD in chemistry at the Laboratory of Bioinorganic Chemistry, KU Leuven in Belgium.
You will have the opportunity to discover her presentation during the sequence on the strategic orientations of the MSCA program.