Staff

jana.kolar@ceric-eric.eu

Dr. Kolar is Executive Director of CERIC-ERIC, a pan-European research infrastructure in the field of characterisation of materials and bio-materials. She has a broad range of expertise, ranging from management, policy development and implementation, research to innovation. Among others, she was:

Director-General of Science in Technology at the Ministry in Slovenia
Chairman of the Board of Slovenian Technology Agency
Member of the Governing Board of Slovenian Research Agency
Member of the Governing Board and its Executive Committee, European Institute of Innovation and Technology
Member of the High-Level Group of Innovators for a European Innovation Council, that advised the Commission on how to strengthen support for breakthrough, market-creating innovation.

She is currently a member of the ERA Council Forum Austria – a high-level expert body advising the Austrian Minister responsible for Science and Research. She is also Chair of ESFRI, European Strategy Forum of Research Infrastructures, and a member of the executive boards of ERF and ERIC Forum project.

She has authored/co-authored several expert reports contracted by the European Commission.

Trained as a chemist, she had published more than 60 peer-reviewed papers and a European patent.

ornela.degiacomo@ceric-eric.eu
tel. +39 040 375 8534