Ondrej Hradil has been selected as chair of the ICOS Ethical Advisory Board (EAB), with Steffen Foss Hansen selected as vice chair.
The role of the EAB is to advise and periodically report on ethical issues, such as scientific ethics, data-related ethical issues, discrimination issues or any kind of conflict of interest.
Ondřej Hradil is research infrastructures manager at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, responsible for coordination of research infrastructures in various scientific fields. He is part of Czech ESFRI delegation, a member of ESFRI Implementation Group and leads research infrastructures activities of European Digital UniverCity (EDUC).
Steffen Foss Hansen is an associate professor in regulatory engineering at Department of Environmental and Resource Engineering, Technical University of Denmark. He conducts research into risk analysis and governance of nanotechnologies and emerging materials and technologies, and the applicability of decision-making tools under scientific uncertainty.
The full EAB for 2025-2027 is as follows:
- Ondřej Hradil (chair), Research Infrastructures Manager, Masaryk University
- Steffen Foss Hansen (vice chair), Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Engineering, DTU
- Seija Oikarinen, Specialist, Research Services / Support for Research Management, University of Helsinki
- Christophe Verbruggen, Director of the Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities and Associate Professor in the research unit Social History since 1750