Antoaneta Markova is a journalist with more than twenty years of experience in covering European and international affairs and European science policy. In recent years she is focusing on science, innovation, science communication. Antoaneta is a senior editor at the Bulgarian national news agency and runs a science and innovation news blog. She lives in Sofia, Bulgaria.
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Érika Roldán Roa: ‘Knowledge, research, and enjoyment of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) are fundamental rights’
Érika Roldán Roa talks to the European Science-Media Hub about open science, diversity and gender equality in science. Mathematician Érika Roldán Roa is a team leader at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, and is affiliated with the Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence at Universität Leipzig (Germany). One of ...
Yves Dejaeghere on participation and citizens’ assemblies: ‘Young people, minorities and people with a lower socio-economic status are very often left out’
Yves Dejaeghere is the executive director of the Federation for Innovation in Democracy – Europe. He participated in this year’s Annual lecture hosted by Parliament’s Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA) on 24 January 2024, discussing how democracy can work for everyone. He talks to the European Science-Media Hub on citizens’ participation and assemblies ...
Prof. Sylvia Kritzinger: ‘Europe needs to very seriously take our young citizens into consideration and engage them in politics’
Sylvia Kritzinger is Professor for Methods in the Social Sciences at the University of Vienna (Austria). Her research focuses on citizens’ political attitudes and voting behaviour, democratic representation, and political participation, voting at 16. She participated in this year’s Annual Lecture hosted by the European Parliament’s Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA) ...
Prof. John O’Keefe: ‘Politicians and researchers should think about AI regulation’
Interview with Professor John O’Keefe about the future of artificial intelligence in science and society. John O'Keefe, professor of cognitive neuroscience at University College in London (UK), was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2014. He won the prize together with May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser "for their discoveries of cells ...
Nobel laureate Emmanuelle Charpentier: ‘Freedom of research and good infrastructure are important for scientists’
This is what Nobel Prize winner Prof. Dr Emmanuelle Charpentier said talking about academic freedom at the prestigious Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, in a conversation with seven journalists from four continents. The French scientist, together with Jennifer Doudna rewarded in 2020 for the development of the method for genome editing known as CRISPR, was ...
Prof. Morten Meldal: ‘Science should be done without constraint’
Interview with Professor Morten Meldal on academic freedom and his idea about creating artificial intelligence especially for research. In 2022, Prof. Morten Meldal was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry". Click chemistry means that molecular building blocks snap together quickly and efficiently. Meldal, a professor at ...
Janina Seubert: ‘Studying emotions helps to better understand our food habits’
How might neuroscience help to change producers’ practices and consumers’ choices for more sustainable food? Janina Seubert is an expert in affective neuroscience and human chemosensation at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and a recipient of a European Research Council (ERC) grant. She was one of the ERC-funded researchers who discussed consumer behaviour at a ...
Prof. Stéphanie Ruphy: Research integrity is about trust
Dr Stéphanie Ruphy is Professor of philosophy of science at the École normale supérieure - Université PSL in Paris. She is currently the Director of the French Office for Research Integrity. She recently helped draft a research integrity oath for Ph.D.s in France. We discuss with her research ethics and integrity in practice. Most people ...