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ENLIGHT Impact Ambassadors

The ENLIGHT Impact Ambassadors are the representatives of the ENLIGHT impact awarded teams, who have demonstrated to be exemplars in the planning for and achieving impact in the ENLIGHT flagship areas of climate change, culture and creativity, digital revolution, energy and circular economy, equity, and health and well-being.

The ENLIGHT Impact Ambassadors are enthusiastic and outspoken supporters of impact in the university context. They are “role models” and inspiring figures for the academic community within and beyond ENLIGHT Alliance.

What ENLIGHT Impact Ambassadors do?

Inspire
Act as “role models” to other academics, management and support staff, showcasing and giving testimony of their initiative's impact pathway.

Reach out
Raise awareness about the importance of 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 impact work and act as 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

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

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

Muriel Grenon

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

Nahia Idoiaga

Nahia Idoiaga

ENLIGHT Impact Ambassador 2025

Associate profesor at Developmental and Educational Psychology

Faculty of Education

University of the Basque Country

Wim de Clerq

Wim De Clercq

ENLIGHT Impact Ambassador 2025

Full Professor at Faculty of Arts and Philosophy

Department of Archaeology / Historical Archaeology Research Group

Ghent University

Our research impact story: The Lost Ports of the Zwin
New image Conn Holohan

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

New image George Azzopardi

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

New image Inge De Bo

Inge De Bo

ENLIGHT Impact Ambassador 2024

Scientific coordinator EU-FarmBook

Department of Plants and Crops  

Faculty of Bioscience Engineering

Ghent University

New image Sander Lanen

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

Our research impact story: Michi Noeki as social infrastructure
Maria HAGGLUND

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

Our research impact story: NORDeHEALTH
Aaron Golden

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

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

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

Our research impact story: “ChildMove“
Kati Orru

Kati Orru

ENLIGHT Impact Ambassador 2023

Associate Professor in Sociology of Sustainability.
Institute of Social Studies.

University of Tartu

Sarah-Anne

Sarah-Anne Buckley

ENLIGHT Impact Ambassador 2023

Associate Professor in History.
 

University of Galway

Our research impact story: “Tuam Oral History Project“

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