Solmaz Filiz Karabag, associate professor, Linköping University (LiU). Solmaz Filiz studied work organization during her graduate education and used SEM to analyze how organizational practices impact employees’ trust, job satisfaction, stress, commitment and intention to leave when companies downsize. She has participated in many studies related to work organization, including trust building in collaborative technology development and successful as well as less successful cases of capability building in emerging economies. She became interested in research integrity and ethics due to her role as an editor of an open access journal and leader for a new course in corporate social responsibility at LiU. She has conducted broad, quantitative studies of the experiences and responses of journals and editors toward misconduct, and case studies of misconduct (mis)management at well-known research institutes.
Bengt Gerdin, Senior professor, Uppsala University (UU) has 40 years of research experience in experimental and clinical medical sciences. He has taught the ethics of unreplicable research and problems of misconduct to PhD students at UU for several years and serves as senior professor on the Board for investigation of research misconduct at UU. Bengt was the external scientific reviewer for the Macchiarini case at Karolinska Institute in 2014-2015 and did a very detailed review of alleged misconduct in several published papers. Although his verdict was rejected by the then president at KI, Bengt was later vindicated by the second group of external reviewers in 2017. Together with Prof. Kjell Asplund, Bengt currently serves as a principal investigator in a group that studies medical-ethical and regulatory issues when new experimental methods are introduced in clinical research and medical investigation.
Christian Berggren, Professor emeritus, has been a leader of major research programs at Linköping University and has studied organization and management in a variety of technology-intensive organizations. For more than 15 years, he has been teaching academic publishing and scientific integrity for PhD students at Linköping University and recently published the book “Vetenskaplig publicering: historik, praktik och etik” at Studentlitteratur. He has published papers on management and the organization of knowledge production in leading academic journals for 30 years, and edited several books for Oxford University Press, most recently in 2017. Christian has been invited to present his studies of research ethics and integrity at Stockholm Business School, Gothenburg Business School, KVVS Gothenburg, Vetenskapsrådet, etc.
