Team

Project Coordinator: TIB

Dr Gábor Kismihók is the head of the Learning and Skills Analytics research Group at TIB. He concentrates his research efforts on matching processes between education, labour market, and individuals. Previously he co-founded the Center of Job Knowledge Research at the University of Amsterdam, and supervised there 5 PhD students in the fields of HRM - data science and learning analytics. He is also a regular supervisor of MSc and BSc student theses. He published his research in various peer-reviewed international journals and book chapters in the fields of Learning Analytics, Technology Enhanced Learning and Knowledge Management. In the past years he has been busy with various EU funded research projects (FP7, FP7 Marie Curie ITN, Lifelong Learning Programme) focused on employability, person - organization fit, mobile Learning Management System development, context aware educational systems and semantic technology in education. Besides scientific research, he has been managing large scale innovation networks (e.g. www.eduworks-network.eu) with a budget of 3,7M EUR (working staff of 25-30 people) and smaller scale innovation projects (e.g. www.ontohr.eu) with a budget of 500K EUR (working staff of 10-15 people). He has also been busy writing successful research project proposals (FP7, FP7 MC ITN, EU LLP, TAMOP). He is a member of expert panels reviewing proposals for EU funding.

Carolin Eisentraut has been working at the TIB since 2022. She was previously active in community building for the Lower Saxony OER portal twillo and moved to Lab Learning & Skill Analytics in April of 2024 where she was involved in the project DALIA and the eDoer platform. Before starting at TIB, she trained as a corporate communications officer in Cologne.

Scott Harrison is a post-doctoral researcher within the Leibniz-Institute für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation in the field of technology enhanced learning where he is working on new measures to analyze the results of the Pisa study. He worked previously at the Institute of Knowledge-Based Systems and Knowledge Management (KBS & KM), University of Siegen, Germany. Scott graduated from his PhD studies at the University of New England, Australia. The focus of the PhD was linking the fields of learning analytics and economics by analysing Early Alert Systems (EAS), the link EAS have to student retention and the financial implications EAS have to institutions. Scott holds a Bachelor of Economics (with Honours
- First Class) from the University of New England, with a major in econometrics. Scott has experience in lecturing quantitative units, including business statistics, micro and macroeconomics, and survey method and design. His research interests include the development of the business case for learning analytics and knowledge.

Partners

Université Libre de Bruxelles

Mathias Schroijen is a member of the Postgraduate Office at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). As a project leader he is responsible for the development of transferable skills training programmes and career development services for researchers. Mathias has a research background in health psychology and is currently finalizing his PhD in respiratory psychophysiology (KU Leuven). Besides his research, he focused on PhD community building at the local level (PhD Society at KU Leuven), the construction of training and career development services at the institutional level (project manager MSCA-Cofund IF@ULB) and the representation of early career researchers at the European level (secretary of Eurodoc)

Instante Falante

Inês Gaspar is a certified Psychologist and a member of the Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses (OPP), the Nederlands Instituut van Psychologen (NIP) and the American Psychological Association (APA). She has a Master’s Degree in Psychology, in Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions from FPCEUC, and several post-graduate courses (more than 500 hours) in Cognitive Behavioral Therapies and Third Generation Therapies (mindfulness and compassion, among others). Since 2017, Inês has been working in private practice in Amsterdam, with adults (mostly expats and students) from different nationalities and backgrounds, and in 2018, she joined the RUMO’s team of Psychologists, where she has been developing her skills of psychological assessment and intervention, as well as creating and facilitating mindfulness courses for business clients and participating in research projects.

Francisco Valente Gonçalves has been a certified psychologist by the Portuguese Body of Psychologists since 2011 and was in 2019 given the credential of specialization in clinical psychology by this professional body. He holds a PhD in Criminology and Psychology from the University of Leicester, a MSc in Psychocriminology from ISPA-IU, a BSc in psychological Sciences carried at ISPA-IU and Universitat de Valencia and Postgrad Diploma in Psychodynamic Psychotherapeutic Intervention by CRIAP. Throughout his career, Francisco has been focusing on topics related to personality assessment, investigative interviewing, motivation and bias in performance. With Carolina Borges, Francisco founded NGO Instante Falante and its products such as RUMO. Francisco also acted as a manager at EY within the Forensic & Integrity Services team where he is focused on topics related to integrity, compliance and ethics. Throughout his career, he won a number of international awards and recognitions, such as 2021 Best Practices in Psychology | Honorable Mention with RUMO project by OPP (2021), Top 3 European Young Researchers of 2020 (EuroScience), Social Impact Award – Marie Curie Alumni Association (2019), MSCA Bridging Career Paths – European Commission (2018), and Graduate Dean Award – University of Leicester (2017). 

SciLInk Foundation

Stefan T. Mol is an assistant professor in Organizational Behavior and Research Methods at the Amsterdam Business School of the University of Amsterdam and co-founder and chair of the Scilink foundation. He received his Master's degree in psychology at the University of Amsterdam in 2000, and his PhD in psychology in 2007, at the Institute of Psychology of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Stefan has co-authored over 35 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on topics such as career shocks, refugee integration, learning analytics, text mining, recommendation of open educational resources, person-environment fit, and researcher mental health. In addition, Stefan is involved in a number of EU funded projects focused on optimizing the match between individual education and the labor market, augmenting VET curricula with AI, and researcher mental health.

Ádám Keszler, before starting a PhD in knowledge management, he graduated as an economist at the University of Debrecen, specializing in management and leadership. Ádám is an experienced project manager, as he has been leading multiple successful international projects in multinational industry environments. He also has an excellent track record in exploitation of project outputs. He has been working at the SciLink Foundation as the Managing Director since 2019, where the aim is to help early stage and experienced researchers to improve their transversal skills.

Grenoble École de Management

Dr Stéphanie Gauttier is an Assistant Professor in Information Systems at Grenoble Ecole de Management (France). She is currently Chair of the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) Policy Group. Stéphanie is the co-coordinator of the MCAA online peer-to-peer mental health mentoring program called REFERENT. Stéphanie has worked on technology based learning in an MSCA-ITN (Eduworks), on human augmentation with technology in an MSCA-IF (GLASNOST), and on European projects related to the development of Responsible Research and Innovation (Responsible-Industry, SATORI). She is regularly invited by universities and policy stakeholders to train researchers on mental health topics, supervision, and research careers.