Jeroen Dobbelaere

Jeroen Dobbelaere is cell biologist and sustainability manager helping to make academia fit for a sustainable future.

During his scientific career he collaborated with experts in different fields and society at large. Having done lab-based work for more than 20 years at UGent, ETH Zürich, Cambridge University and the University of Vienna he knows the ins and outs of academic work. He has published many scientific papers in high-ranking journals and is well familiar with the international conference circuit. As a vivid gardener and lover of the outdoors, Jeroen always tries to look at research through the lens of environmental sustainability. With the grass roots group Climate@MaxPerutzLabs in Vienna, he founded, he published several papers on the need for change in academia and developed several courses and teaching tools. Not waiting for academia to change, he decided to stop active research and is now making an impact as sustainability manager at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA).