Organisers

Bodil Agasøster (Ph.D.) is Section Head for International Data Services at Sikt, managing the European Social Survey (ESS) Data Archive, Norway’s ISSP membership, and EU-funded projects. Since 2018, she has been part of the ESS ERIC Core Scientific Team. Bodil coordinates international cooperation for Sikt’s Research and Knowledge Resources Division. Previously, she worked with media policy (Oslo), and with the Culture 2000 and Erasmus+ programmes at the European Commission. Bodil holds a Ph.D. in Politics & International Relations from the University of Aberdeen.

Bonnie Wolff-Boenisch is the executive Director of CESSDA ERIC. Bonnie has 25 years of work experience in research and infrastructures, management and advocacy across different countries, cultures, and research disciplines. She is a member of Scientific Advisory Boards in Germany, Italy, France and the US. Bonnie Wolff-Boenisch has a PhD in Isotope Geochemistry from the Max-Planck Institute in Mainz, Germany. She is the Chair of the ERIC Forum since January 2026.

Dimitra Kondyli studied sociology, political sciences and anthropology in French universities and she holds a PhD from the Doctoral School of Social Sciences, section of Anthropology, university Paris VIII-St. Denis. She is currently Deputy Director of the Institute of Social Resaerch at EKKE, Greek representative at the CESSDA GA and SPF as well as Chair of the SoDaNet Steering Committee and co-scientific responsible of the EKKE Repository. She represents EKKE at the Greek Initiative for Open Science since 2019. She has coordinated european as well as national research projects and has been part of the core research team in more than forty research projects. Her research interests include: a) Social research methodological issues pertaining to the development of research infrastructures b) Research on digital transformation and the impact of ICTs on the fields of work and education. c) Gender aspects of R&D d) Migration from a gender perspective.

For over ten years, Helena Laaksonen has served as Director of the Finnish Social Science Data Archive (FSD), a Service Provider of CESSDA ERIC, following more than a decade as Deputy Director. Her background is in comparative sociology. She also chaired the CESSDA ERIC General Assembly from 2021 to 2024.

Lorraine Wong is a Senior Science Officer at CESSDA ERIC. Lorraine collaborates with social science data archives across Europe to identify emerging user needs, promote open science, and strengthen the contribution of research to policy. Lorraine has over a decade of experience researching labour market and migration patterns to inform policies and interventions. She has worked with United Nations agencies and governments on issues including human trafficking, working conditions, social protection, and public-private partnerships. Lorraine holds a PhD in economics.

Olivier Y. Rouquette holds a PhD in Sport Psychology. His early research in sport psychology focused on the role of interpersonal relationships in performance and well-being—an interest that continues to inform his efforts to foster more inclusive and supportive sport environments. Olivier now leads the Data Acquisitions and Access team at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, where he focuses on enhancing data infrastructures to make high-quality, accessible data more readily available to the research community.