Sonja Ochsenfeld-Repp

Sonja is Head of Division “Research Culture”, German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft | DFG). Before that, she served as Deputy Head of Division “Quality and Programme Management”. Her focus is on the promotion of equity, diversity, and inclusion, sustainability in research processes, research assessment and safeguarding research integrity.

From 2012 to 2015 she was Deputy Director of the European Liaison Office of the German Research Organisations (Kowi) and Head of the Bonn office. She was co-coordinator of the National Contact Point for the European Research Council (ERC).

Sonja is a member of the Science Europe (SE) Working Groups on Research Culture and Artificial Intelligence; she is engaged in the Coalition on Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA). Sonja is a fully qualified lawyer by training and has been awarded a doctoral degree from the University of Bonn. She has participated as a speaker or chair in many national, European and international conferences.

German Research Foundation
Division Research Culture
sonja.ochsenfeld-repp@dfg.de