ENLIGHT Impact Ambassadors
The ENLIGHT Impact Ambassadors are the representatives of the ENLIGHT impact awarded research teams, who have demonstrated to be exemplars in the planning for and achieving impact in the ENLIGHT flagship areas of health and wellbeing, digital revolution, climate change, energy and circular economy, equity.
The ENLIGHT Impact Ambassadors are enthusiastic and outspoken supporters of impactful research, and function as “role models” and inspiring figures for the research community within and beyond ENLIGHT Alliance.
What ENLIGHT Impact Ambassadors do?
Inspire
Act as “role models” to other researchers and research support staff, showcasing and giving testimony of their research impact pathway.
Reach out
Raise awareness of research impact; engaging in outreach activities; participating in mutual learning and exchange of experiences and insights; connecting with ENLIGHT Impact Ambassadors Network, ENLIGHT impact team and beyond; contributing thus to improve impact literacy across ENLIGHT and beyond.
Promote
Promote ENLIGHT research impact work and acting as research impact multipliers across different fields of knowledge and regional, national and international networks; supporting and providing advice to ENLIGHT impact team in the execution of its different tasks.
Meet our ENLIGHT Impact Ambassadors!
Alexander Muela
ENLIGHT Impact Ambassador 2025
Senior Lecturer in Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatment
Faculty of PsychologyFaculty of Psychology
University of the Basque Country
Kristiane Van Lierde
ENLIGHT Impact Ambassador 2025
Professor at Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Centre for Speech and Language Sciences
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Ghent University
Wim De Clercq
ENLIGHT Impact Ambassador 2025
Full Professor at Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Department of Archaeology / Historical Archaeology Research Group
Ghent University
Nahia Idoiaga
ENLIGHT Impact Ambassador 2025
Associate profesor at Developmental and Educational Psychology
Faculty of Education
University of the Basque Country
Muriel Grenon
ENLIGHT Impact Ambassador 2025
Lecturer, Principal investigator, founding director of Cell Explorers
School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, College of Science & Engineering
University of Galway
Conn Holohan
ENLIGHT Impact Ambassador 2024
Director of the Centre for Creative Technologies,
Course Director of the BA in Film & Digital Media and a lecturer in film and media studies
University of Galway
George Azzopardi
ENLIGHT Impact Ambassador 2024
Associate Professor in Pattern Recognition (Computer Science)
Information Systems group
Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science, and AI
University of Groningen
Inge De Bo
ENLIGHT Impact Ambassador 2024
Scientific coordinator EU-FarmBook
Department of Plants and Crops
Faculty of Bioscience Engineering
Ghent University
Sander Van Lanen
ENLIGHT Impact Ambassador 2024
Assistant Professor Urban Poverty & Inequality
Research Fellow of the Rudolph Agricola School of Sustainable Development
Coordinator BSc Human Geography & Planning
University of Groningen
Maria Hägglund
ENLIGHT Impact Ambassador 2024
Associate Professor in Health Informatics
Participatory eHealth and Health Data research group
Department of Women’s and Children’s Health
Uppsala University & Uppsala University Hospital
University of Uppsala
Aaron Golden
ENLIGHT Impact Ambassador 2023
Associate Professor, School of Natural Sciences.
Vice-Dean for Research and Innovation, College of Science and Engineering.
University of Galway
Idoia Martin Guerrero
ENLIGHT Impact Ambassador 2023
Associate Professor.
Genetics, Physical Anthropology and Animal Physiology Department. Pediatric Oncology group. Sience and Technology Faculty.
University of the Basque Country
Ilse Derluyn
ENLIGHT Impact Ambassador 2023
Full Professor.
Director Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy, Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees (CESSMIR).
Ghent University
Kati Orru
ENLIGHT Impact Ambassador 2023
Associate Professor in Sociology of Sustainability.
Institute of Social Studies.
University of Tartu
Sarah-Anne Buckley
ENLIGHT Impact Ambassador 2023
Associate Professor in History.
University of Galway
Kathy Reilly
ENLIGHT Impact Ambassador 2024
Geography Lecturer
School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies,
University of Galway
Pádraig Mac Neela
ENLIGHT Impact Ambassador 2025
Professor, Principal Investigator - Active* Consent research group
Head of School of Psychology
University of Galway