Bonnie Wolff-Boenisch

Dr Bonnie Wolff-Boenisch is the CEO and legal representative of CESSDA ERIC, the European Consortium for Social Sciences Data Archives In this role she is responsible for strategic and operational leadership and external relations. For the last ten years she led the Research Affairs at Science Europe, an umbrella organisation of major Research Funding Organisations and Research Performing Organisations from 28 countries based in Brussels. In this function she was responsible for scientific advice on research policy topics and EU legislative developments with impact to research. Dr Wolff-Boenisch gained substantial insight in science management and policy as Director of an ESFRI research infrastructure initiative in the polar and marine research domain at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany and the European Science Foundation in France Previously, she was project manager and coordinator of several international scientific and technologically-oriented consortia developing decision making structures and multi-national collaborations. At the start of her academic career Dr Wolff-Boenisch conducted scientific research in the fields of cosmo- and geochemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany, and later as a Marie Curie research fellow in the field of paleo-climate and sustainability research at the CNRS in France.