Rob Adam was appointed Director of the South African Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Radio Telescope project in 2016 and became Managing Director of the SA Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) when this new National Facility was declared by the Minister of Science and Technology in 2017.
Dr Rodrigo Costas is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University (the Netherlands).
Prof. Dr. Robin Cowan is Professor of the Economics of Technical Change at the University of Maastricht, and Professor of Management at the Faculty of Economics and Management at the University of Strasbourg.
Dr Stefan de Jong is a researcher in the Department of Organization Studies at the Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Tilburg University.
Dr. Jochen Gläser is professor for social studies of science and technology at the Technical University Berlin.
Prof. Lars Guenther is a Professor in Communication Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
Prof. Michael Kahn is a policy analyst and evaluator in the fields of research and innovation.
Dr Susanne Koch is a visiting scholar of the Chair of Forest and Environmental Policy, Technical University of Munich; and a Guest researcher of the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University.
Prof. Vincent Vincent Larivière holds the Canada Research Chair on the Transformations of Scholarly Communication at Université de Montréal, where he is associate professor of information science.
Dr Grit Laudel is a sociologist of science at the Department of Sociology, Technical University Berlin.
Professor Podems is a researcher, facilitator, and monitoring and evaluation specialist with more than 23 years’ experience. She holds a doctorate in interdisciplinary studies focused on Program Evaluation and Organizational Development, and a Masters degree in Public Administration.
Dr Stefan Skupien is the Scientific Coordinator for Open Science for the Berlin University Alliance, and guest researcher at the Berlin Social Science Center.
Prof. Cassidy Sugimoto is Professor and Tom and Marie Patton School Chair in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology.
Prof. Dr Peter Weingart is the former South African Research Chair in Science Communication and is an emeritus professor at Bielefeld University.
CREST covers the broad fields of bibliometrics and scientometrics, research on higher education knowledge production, human resources in science and technology, research evaluation and impact assessment studies and studies on the communication patterns of scientists.
