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Team members

NanoBubbles is led by 4 researchers from the Universities of Sorbonne Paris Nord, Maastricht, Grenoble Alpes and Radboud, in collaboration with researchers from the CNRS, the University of Twente, Université Toulouse III and Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées.

 

Université Sorbonne Paris Nord

Raphaël Levy

Raphaël Levy

Raphaël Lévy is the corresponding principal investigator (cPI) of NanoBubbles, and he is a Professor of Physics at Université Sorbonne Paris Nord (France). His research group focuses on nanoparticles, their structure, and applications, in particular for biological imaging. His interests also extend to open science, the mechanisms of science correction and the changes in modes of publishing.

 

Maha Said

Maha Said is a postdoctoral researcher based in Université Sorbonne Paris Nord who works closely with the post-publication peer review team, and will be implicated in the replication sub-project, during which she will utilize her experience in Biology to replicate selected experiments from articles published in the field of nanobiology.

 

Mustafa El Gharib

Mustafa El Gharib is a postdoctoral researcher based in Université Sorbonne Paris Nord. He will work replication sub-project where he will utilize his experience in materials science, nanoparticle synthesis, characterization and their surface functionalization to help in the replication of some selected experiments that will form the basis of the replication project.

 

 

Maastricht University

Cyrus Mody

 

Cyrus Mody is one of the co-principal investigators (co-PI) of NanoBubbles. He is Professor in the History of Science, Technology, and Innovation at Maastricht University (Netherlands), as well as the director of the STS program. He focuses on recent science and technology, specifically the applied physical sciences in the United States since 1965.

 

Candida Sanchez Burmester

Candida Sanchez Burmester is a PhD candidate at Maastricht University, in the field of Science and Technology Studies. In the NanoBubbles project, along with co-PI Cyrus Mody, she employs ethnographic and historical methods to analyse how claims and counter-claims have circulated at conferences in the field of nanobiology.

 

 

Radboud University

Willem Halffman

Willem Halffman is one of the co-principal investigators (co-PI) of NanoBubbles. He is a senior lecturer in Science & Technology Studies at Radboud University (Nijmegen, Netherlands). As a social scientist, he works in close cooperation with natural scientists to understand and hopefully also improve research and publication practices.

 

Auste Valinciute

Auste Valinciute is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Science in Society at Radboud University (Nijmegen) with a background in science communication. Within NanoBubbles, Auste will be working on projects investigating epistemic activists and error correction practices in science

 

Wytske Hepkema

Wytske Hepkema is a PhD student with a background in molecular biology. She previously studied the role of journals in correcting and preventing scientific error. Within NanoBubbles, she will work at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, and will use a social science perspective to look at error, error correction, and overpromising.

 

Stefan Gaillard

Stefan Gaillard is a PhD student with a background in history & philosophy of science and cognitive psychology. He also has additional training in game theory and chemistry. His contribution to the project will be a qualitative social science study of two related controversies in nanobiology concerning the permeability of cell membranes and the blood/brain barrier to novel nanoparticles. He will be working with co-PI Willem Halfman at Radboud University (Nijmegen, Netherlands).

 

Université Grenoble Alpes

Cyril Labbé

 

Cyril Labbé is one of the co-principal investigators (co-PI) of NanoBubbles. He is a Professor of Computer Science at the Université Grenoble-Alpes and a member of the Grenoble Computer Science Laboratory. He is particularly interested in the field of automatic text analysis tools.

François Portet

François Portet is a Professor of Computer Science at Université Grenoble-Alpes (France). His core activities are in the natural language understanding and natural language generation.

 

Amira Barhoumi

Amira Barhoumi is a postdoctoral researcher, working at Université Grenoble-Alpes with Cyril Labbé, Frédérique Bordignon and François Portet. Her role is mainly to build datasets, models and tools using NLP techniques in order to analyse how scientific papers are cited, how claims appear in scientific records and are propagated.

 

Yagmur Ozturk

Yagmur Ozturk is a PhD student at Université Grenoble-Alpes as a member of the Grenoble Informatics Laboratory. Her previous education comprises of translation studies, linguistics and natural language processing. In this project she will work on automatic detection of claims and counter-claims and critical citations in scholarly communication/social networks while exploring the language used in these contexts.

 

Qinyue Liu

Qinyue Liu is a PhD student who recently graduated from the Master’s degree in Natural Language Processing from the Université Grenoble-Alpes. Her role in the Nanobubbles project focuses on assessing the accuracy of citations and identifying erroneous citations with NLP technologies. This involves building and analyzing datasets, as well as the utilisation of language models.

 

 

CNRS

Marianne Noël

Marianne Noël is a sociologist/historian trained in STS, with an original background (PhD) and industrial experience in chemistry. She currently is a CNRS Research Engineer at LISIS, Université Gustave-Eiffel (France).

 

Maud Bernisson

 

Maud Bernisson is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Science in Society at Radboud University (Netherlands) with a background in media and communication. Her role in the Nanobubbles project is to study controversies about error correction in the field of nanobiology and activists in this field.

 

Mady Barbeitas

Mady Barbeitas is a postdoctoral researcher at LISIS (CNRS), working with Marianne Noël. In the Nanobubbles project, Mady investigates the epistemic activism and how concerns for correction of research claims emerge from researchers and research teams.

 

 

Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées

Frederique Bordignon

Frederique Bordignon

 

Frédérique Bordignon is in charge of bibliometrics and research integrity at Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées (France). She is a researcher at LISIS lab. Her research focuses on citation analysis, academic writing and correction of science with scientometrics and Natural Language Processing methods. She is Research Integrity Officer at ENPC.

 

 

 

University of Twente

Yasemin J. Erden

YJ Erden is an associate professor in Philosophy at the University of Twente (Netherlands). She has a record of accomplishment in piloting ethics work in EC-funded projects and works as an Independent Expert in Ethics for the EC since 2012.

 

 

Miles MacLeod

 

Miles MacLeod is an associate professor for philosophy of science at the University Twente. His research interests cover interdisciplinarity and scientific collaboration, and the causes and consequences of scientific failure.

 

 

 

 

Université Toulouse III

Guillaume Cabanac

 

 

Guillaume Cabanac is a professor of Computer Science at University of Toulouse. His research covers information retrieval and scientometrics, which deals with the quantitative study of science and innovation.

 

 

Alexandre Clausse

Alexandre Clausse is a PhD student with a background in data science. He previously participated in the development of the NETSCITY platform, which allows the visualization of scientific collaborations worldwide. His contribution to the project will be the automatic extraction of tortured phrases in scientific literature, using AI/ML.

 

 

 

Former members

Martin Lentschat is a postdoctoral researcher at Université Grenoble-Alpes. His PhD focused on the extraction of information in scientific papers and the representation of knowledge as n-Ary relations. Within the NanoBubbles project, he aims at designing a process to identify scientific claims published in articles and track how these claims are propagated and discussed in the literature.

Sanda Hachana is a research engineer who graduated from the Master’s degree in Natural Language Processing from the Université Grenoble-Alpes. Her role in the Nanobubbles project is to develop scripts for data collection to process and transform data collected from heterogenous corpus.

Ali Raisi is a research engineer.

Federico Boem is a postdoctoral researcher, working with YJ Erden at the University of Twente. Within Nanobubbles, his main tasks include working on the explication of a common vocabulary in the research field, contributing to the building of bibliographical corpora, and the analysis and annotation of scientific literature.

Maximilian Roßmann is a postdoctoral researcher based at the University of Maastricht. He holds a B.Sc. in chemical engineering and a Ph.D. in philosophy. In the Nanobubbles project, Max conducts detailed case studies to trace how the promises of nanobiology emerged, were contested, and defy critical claims at conferences, in emerging research networks, and beyond. His particular interest is the role of narratives and the application of digital methods in the field of Science Technology Studies (STS).

Zoé Toure is the project manager of NanoBubbles, based at Université Sorbonne Paris Nord. She has a background in foreign languages and European project management, and supports Nanobubbles’ management and communication needs.

Nathanne Rost is a postdoctoral researcher. Within NanoBubbles, she aims to investigate scientific papers based on critical overview, contributing especially in analyzing nanomaterials characterization data, looking forward to science self-correction. She will be working with Raphaël Lévy, within the LVTS laboratory at Université Sorbonne Paris Nord.

Guillaume Levrier is a postdoctoral researcher at LISIS. He holds a PhD in political science from Sciences Po (CEVIPOF) and is specialized in studying the political epistemologies related to molecular biology. He is the creator and maintainer of the research software PANDORÆ.