fw24-GoH-Jean-Claude-Burgelman

Frontiers Planet Prize, Free University of Brussels

Jean-Claude Burgelman

  • 2024
  • Guest of Honor

Jean-Claude Burgelman retired in 2020 from the European Commission Brussels where he was in of Open Science, the European Open Science Cloud, open data and open access. Till 2000 he was full professor of communication technology policy at the Free University of Brussels, as well as the founding director of its research Centre for Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunication. He recently joined the advisory board of Open Knowledge Maps, Scimagine and became the editor in chief of Frontiers Policy Lab. In  2022 he became the director of the Frontiers Planet Prize, a global competition to ignite science that can save the planet.