Anabel Sánchez-Plaza
Speaker Bio:
Anabel has a BSc in Biology and a PhD in Environment and Society. She’s the Research Impact Officer at CREAF and previously was a researcher at the centre. As a researcher, she has extensive experience in developing EU projects and has coordinated citizen science and participatory initiatives, fostering collaboration between science and society to tackle environmental challenges. As Research Impact Officer, she launched the centre’s impact unit and developed CREAF’s inaugural Impact Strategy. Her role involves enhancing staff skills, building stakeholder connections, contributing to assessment and monitoring and showcasing impact while embedding a culture of impact in the institution and its research. Moreover, she is one of the first Research Impact Officers in the Catalan and Spanish research community and has contributed to the Spanish research evaluation system as part of ANECA’s Commission tasked with advising on evaluation to the Spanish accreditation Agency. Additionally, she actively networks and exchanges experiences and best practices with colleagues across Europe to foster collective learning and improvement.