The European Commission has placed the reform of research assessment at the heart of its vision for a stronger, more open and impactful research ecosystem in Europe. The aim is to move beyond narrow metrics and promote fair, transparent, and inclusive evaluation systems that recognise diverse contributions to science, innovation, and society.
Javier will provide an overview of the objectives of the structural policy on reforming research assessment under the European Research Area policy agenda for 2025-2027. He will also present the support to the reform process under Horizon Europe, including for the 2026-27 Work Programme and comment on the connections with other EU priorities for research and innovation.
PhD. in Physics For the period 2002-2017, Javier López Albacete has worked as a researcher in several institutions in Europe (CERN, CNRS, CEA, ECT* Trento and Universidad de Granada) and the US (Ohio State University). His research was focused on the theory and phenomenology of the strong interactions under extreme conditions. Since 2017, he is on leave from the Universidad de Granada to work in research management and policy making at EU institutions. For 2017-2021, he worked on the evaluation and follow-up of projects funded under the “Fundamental Constituents of Matter” panel of the European Research Council. He joined the Open Science and Research Infrastructures unit of the European Commission in 2021 as policy officer, where he contributes to advance EU policies on the European Open Science Cloud, international cooperation on Open Science and the reform of research assessment.
