The AI in Science Working Groups (AISWGs), established under the Horizon Europe-funded SCIANCE project, bring together experts in artificial intelligence, scientific research, research infrastructures, HPC, Open Science and innovation to co-create the European Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda (SRIA) for AI in Science.
Astronomy and Fundamental Physics
SCIANCE co-chairs: Sascha Caron (Nikhef) & Anna Scaife (MU)
- Maria Girone (CERN)
- Pietro Vischia (Departamento de Física and ICTEA, Universidad de Oviedo)
- Rosie Bolton (SKAO)
- Ik Siong Heng (University of Glasgow)
- Manuel Perger (Institut de Ciències de l’Espai (ICE-CSIC))
- Mario Krenn (University of Tübingen)
- Andreas Ipp (TU Wien)
- Gert Aarts (Swansea University/Bielefeld University)
- Marijke Haverkorn (University of Nijmegen)
- Tommaso Dorigo (INFN – Sezione di Padova)
- Daniela Huppenkothen (University of Amsterdam)
- Chris Messenger (Univeristy of Glasgow)
- Manlio De Domenico (University of Padua)
- Caterina Doglioni (University of Manchester)
- Adnan Ghribi (CNRS/GANIL/CEA/CERN)
- Maurizio Pierini (CERN)
Materials Science
SCIANCE co-chair: Andrey Ustyuzhanin (CU)
- Román Orús (DIPC / Multiverse Computing)
- Stephan Roche (ICREA and ICN2)
- Sonia Conesa Boj (Delft University of Technology)
- Nicola Marzari (University of Cambridge)
- Karsten Reuter (Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society)
- Gabor Csanyi (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research)
- Ares Argelia Gomez Gallegos (Linnaeus University)
- Tejs Vegge (Technical University of Denmark)
- Eleonora Ricci (University of Edinburgh)
- Janine George (Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM))
- Hartmut Schlenz (Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Institute of Energy Materials and Devices (IMD), Materials Synthesis and processing (IMD-2))
- Gian-Marco Rignanese (UCLouvain)
- Alfons Hoekstra (University of Amsterdam)
- Maciej Haranczyk (IMDEA Materials Institute)
- Michele Ceriotti (EPFL)
- Gianaurelio Cuniberti (TU Dresden)
Life Sciences
SCIANCE co-chairs: Dorothea Dörr, Beatriz Serrano-Solano (Euro-BioImaging)
- Altuna Akalin (Max Delbrueck Center)
- Alessandra Retico (INFN)
- Pieter Jules Karel Libin (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
- Anna Kreshuk (European Molecular Biology Laboratory)
- Michel Dumontier (Maastricht University)
- Gavin Farrell (University of Padova)
- Pedro Goncalves (VIB and KU Leuven)
- Jože Hladnik (Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute)
- Huayu Xin (University of Edinburgh)
- Carlos Victor Montefusco Pereira (Hasso Plattner Institute)
- Johanna Furuhjelm (Karolinska Institutet Centre for AI Innovation)
- Katarina Kapuralin (University of Rijeka)
- Petr Holub (BBMRI-ERIC)
- Sebastian Lobentanzer (Helmholtz Munich)
- Marco Grangetto (University opf Turin)
- Jens Maus (Helmholz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
- Martin Braun (Berlin Institute of Health at Charité)
- Heimo Müller (BBMRI-ERIC)
Earth Science
SCIANCE co-chairs: Mariana Belgiu (UT-ITC)
- Ioannis Athanasiadis (Wageningen University & Research)
- Paolo Ruti (EUMETSAT)
- Carlo Buontempo (ECMWF)
- Petteri Vihervaara (Finnish Environment Institute (Syke))
- Oliver Phillips (University of Leeds)
- Rene Heim (University of Göttingen)
- Jian Peng (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ)
- Stef Lhermitte (KU Leuven)
- Sabine Griessbach (Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH)
- Devaraju Narayanappa (CSC – IT center for science)
- Mikk Espenberg (University of Tartu (Estonia); University of Aberdeen (UK))
- Masahiro Ryo (Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF))
- Fakhereh Alidoost (Netherlands eScience Center)
- Vincent Miele (CNRS)
Social Science & Humanities
SCIANCE co-chair: Roberto Trasarti (CNR-ISTI)
- Vinícius Ferraz (Singularity.Inc)
- David Richter (SHARE-ERIC)
- Xiaohua Yu (Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, University of Göttingen)
- Francesca Cadeddu (RESILIENCE Research Infrastructure for Religious Studies)
- Andreas Weber (University of Twente & Groningen University)
- Pankaj Pandey (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Gjovik, Norway)
- Henrique Daniel De Avelar Lopes Cardoso (Universidade do Porto — Faculdade de Engenharia)
- Diana Zavala-Rojas (European Social Survey ERIC, Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
- Giovanni Comande (scuola superiore sant’anna)
- Fosca Giannotti (Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa)
- Anaïs Guillem (E-RIHS)
- Katarzyna Starosławska (Academic Computer Center Cyfronet AGH)
- Marcel Jeroen van Den Hoven (Delft University of Technology)
- Bojana Tasic (CESSDA ERIC (FORS, Switzwrland))
- Mark Cote (King’s College London)
AI Research & Experimental Design
SCIANCE co-chair: Andrea Loesch (DFKI)
- László Gulyás (Department of Artificial Intelligence, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
- Jalal Fadili (AISSAI Center, CNRS)
- Ricardo da Silva Torres (Wageningen University and Research)
- Christoph Schuhmann (Laion e.V. ( non profit ))
- Pablo Lopez-Tarifa (Netherlands eScience Center)
- Nathalie Rochefort (University of Edinburgh)
- Jose Manuel Garcia Nieto (University of Málaga)
- Victorita Dolean (Eindhoven University of Technology)
- Georgia Gkioka (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), National Technical University of Athens (NTUA))
- Anna Poetsch (Universität zu Köln)
- Ignacio Arganda-Carreras (Biofisika Institute)
- Fabian Sinz (Georg August University Göttingen)
- Mihaela Tofan (Univerisity Alexandru Ioan Cuza of Iasi and Institute of Legal Research at Romanian Academy)
- Christoph Weniger (University of Amsterdam)
- David Rousseau (CNRS)
- Dimitris Kotzinos (ETIS Lab / CY Cergy Paris University)
Data Science & Advanced Analytics
SCIANCE co-chair: Daniel Alonso (BDVA)
- Freek Bomhof (TNO)
- Rafiqul Haque (University of Galway)
- Jordi Cabot (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology)
- Rizkallah Touma (i2CAT Research Center)
- Eduardo Quinones Moreno (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)
- Allan Hanbury (TU Wien)
- Edward Curry (University of Galway / Insight Centre for Data Analytics / BDVA / Adra)
- Sofia Tsekeridou (Netcompany)
- Joaquin Salvachua (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
- Pedro Garcia Lopez (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
- Yury Glikman (Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS)
- Mark Dietrich (Bloodstone Consulting)
- Jano van Hemert (University of Edinburgh)
Open Science & Trustworthy AI
SCIANCE co-chairs: Natalia Manola, Theodora Kavvadia (OpenAIRE)
- Fatemeh Raji (Aston University, United Kingdom)
- César Dro (Centre for the Governance of Artificial intelligence)
- Edwin Charles Constable (University of Basel and Swiss Competence Centre for Scientific Integrity (KWIS))
- Thomas Vuillaume (LAPP, CNRS)
- Fotis Psomopoulos (Institute of Applied Biosciences (INAB), Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH))
- Bart Penders (Maastricht University)
- Dorottya Sallai (London School of Economics)
- Elvisa Seumenicht (Austrian Science Fund FWF)
- Michal Růžička (Masaryk University (Institute of Computer Science, CERIT-SC), Brno, Czech Republic)
- Lindsay Dowling (Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin))
- Sushma Grellscheid (University of Bergen)
- Jilles Vreeken (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security)
- Massimiliano Simons (Maastricht University)
- Heidi Laine (IT Center for Science – CSC, LUMI AI Factory)
AI & Computing Infrastructure
SCIANCE co-chair: Andrea Manzi (EGI)
- Tommaso Boccali (INFN / CERN)
- Sašo Džeroski (Jožef Stefan Institute)
- Ilire Hasani-Mavriqi (Graz University of Technology (TU Graz))
- Raul Palma (Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC/PCSS))
- Irene Nooren (SURF)
- Marco Aldinucci (Università di Torino)
- Diego Perino (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)
- Julian Kunkel (Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen)
- Álvaro López García (CSIC)
- Rob van Nieuwpoort (Leiden University)
- Venkatesh Kannan (ICHEC (Irish Centre for High-End Computing))
- Aleksi Kallio (CSC – IT Center for Science)
- Kostas Koumantaros (GRNET)
- Alex Upton (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre)
Industry, Innovation & Frugal AI
SCIANCE co-chair: Edina Nemeth (SZTAKI)
- Eric Aubourg (Astroparticule et Cosmologie lab, U Paris Cité, CNRS, CEA)
- Damien Gratadour (CNRS)
- Yonah Welker (MIT CSAIL, EMEA Campus + EU/EIT projects)
- Marko Grobelnik (Jozef Stefan Institute)
- Carrie Baptist (Conception X)
- Arrate Muñoz-Barrutia (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
- Leonardo Medrano Sandonas (Dresden University of Technology)
- Pascal Frossard (EPFL)
- Sylvain Chevallier (Université Paris-Saclay)
- Nicki Lisa Cole (Know Center Research GmbH)
- Vladimir Gligorov (CNRS/IN2P3)
- Mauro Castelli (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)
- Daniel Garcia Coego (GRADIANT)
- Ioannis Kompatsiaris (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) – Information Technologies Institute (ITI))

