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Committee for Data Science

This committee implements the Board of the Foundation’s granting decision for research within Data Science.

The Novo Nordisk Foundation Board has established an annual grant budget of DKK 198 million (€26.5 million) to support research within Data Science, allocated between the Data Science Collaborative Research Programme (DKK 99 million), and the (Emerging, Ascending, Distinguished) Data Science Investigator grants (DKK 99 million). These grants are awarded once annually following separate calls for applications.

The Committee for Data Science is composed of ten international experts within the field, consisting of a Chair and nine other members. The Board of the Foundation selects the members in accordance with the general rules covering the Foundation’s committees.

Gavin Shaddick

Chair

Pro Vice-Chancellor for the College of Physical Sciences and Engineering , University of Cardiff , United Kingdom.
Member since 2023.

Alexandre Tkatchenko

Member

Professor in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Luxemburg, Luxemburg.
Member since 2023.

Alfonso Valencia

Member

Professor, Director of Life Sciences Department, Computational Biology, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain.
Member since 2023.

Andre Dekker

Member

Medical Physicist, MAASTRO Clinic, Maastricht, The Netherlands, Professor of Clinical Data Science.
Member since 2023.

Björn Usadel

Member

Professor, Plant bioinformatics, systems biology, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, Jülich Forschungszentrum, Germany.
Member since 2026.

Bruno Correia

Member

Associate Professor, Protein design, computational biology, structural biology, Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.
Member since 2026.

Concha Bielza

Member

Professor, Artificial intelligence, statistics, probabilistic modelling, Technical University of Madrid, Spain.
Member since 2026.

Maria Liakata

Member

Professor, Artificial intelligence, natural language processing, biomedical informatics, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom.
Member since 2026.

Marieke Kuijjer

Member

Associate Professor, Cancer Data Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland, Netherlands.
Member since 2023.

Mark Huijbregts

Member

Professor, Environmental science, life cycle assessment, sustainability metrics, Radboud Universitet, Netherlands.
Member since 2026.