About Us

Maryline Fiaschi

CEO
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Maryline Fiaschi joined Science|Business in 2011 where she has risen to the position of CEO and leads the company’s operations and growth strategy. Previously, she managed EU education programmes with the European Commission for six years, before entering the media business in 2007. She held business development positions at Shanghai Daily and EU affairs media company EurActiv. She is also an external evaluator for several EU higher education and research and innovation programmes. Maryline holds degrees from Université La Sorbonne, Università di Bologna and Université de Louvain.

Florin Zubașcu

Executive Editor
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Florin is Executive Editor, leading Science|Business news coverage on research and innovation policy in Europe. He is covering EU R&D policy, the Horizon Europe programme, Europe’s innovation divide and R&D policy reforms in central and eastern Europe. He managed the Science|Business newsletters since 2014 and, in 2017, he helped implement a complete redesign of www.sciencebusiness.net. Previously, Florin worked as a political science researcher and web producer for various organisations and think-tanks in Romania and Hungary. He holds degrees in political science from Central European University in Budapest and Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca.

Simon Pickard

Network Director

Simon leads on network engagement and development for Science|Business in line with the company’s growth strategy. He previously held directorial positions with The Academy of Business in Society (ABIS) network and IDAS Global, a technology solutions provider to the global cash industry. Within these roles, he designed and coordinated a wide range of international projects focused on sustainability-driven innovation, both in research and education. Simon holds master’s degrees in modern languages from the University of Oxford and in business administration from HEC Paris School of Management.

Sebastian Dohmen

Sebastian Dohmen joined Science|Business in 2022 as Director of MarCom to drive all marketing efforts, create and coordinate associated communications and help achieve the company’s strategic growth objectives.

Before his engagement, Sebastian built extensive experience in international corporate marketing and communications at DDB Chicago, a top global advertising agency, and Siemens, as well as in digitizing marketing and managing customer life cycles in high-value sales environments at Inspired Education Group. In between, he has also had a stint in the golf industry as General Manager of the Millennium Business Club. In all his roles, he has put the brand and its reputation at the foundation of his approach to business.

Sebastian has obtained a Master in Political Science from Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster in Germany, and an MBA in International Marketing & Finance at DePaul University - Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, in the US.

Sara Crepaldi

Sara joined Science|Business in April 2021. She has an educational background in translation and interpreting and she moved to Brussels in 2019 to attend a post graduate Master in EU Funding and Project Management. After completing a traineeship at the European Parliament, she started at Science|Business, where she now is a Network Manager while also assisting the Events team. 

Ole Ellekrog

Ole Ellekrog is a Danish journalist who has lived in China, Brazil, Spain, Czechia, Greenland and now, since joining Science | Business in 2026, in Belgium. After working with science communication in Greenland for a year, his journalism has been focused on science and the Arctic. Previously he worked at Polar Journal, and his articles have been published in outlets like The Guardian and WIRED. He holds a BA in journalism from the Danish School of Media and Journalism, and an Erasmus Mundus Masters in “Journalism, Globalisation, and the Media”from Aarhus University, Denmark, and Charles University, Czechia.

Thomas Brent

Thomas Brent joined the team full-time in October 2022. He has worked as a journalist in countries around the world, including three years in Cambodia reporting on social and political issues in Southeast Asia and two years in France writing for the English-language newspaper The Connexion. He has an undergraduate degree in journalism from Edinburgh Napier University and a postgraduate diploma in central and eastern European studies from the University of Glasgow.

Martin Greenacre

Martin Greenacre joined Science|Business in September 2023. He previously worked as a journalist for the English-language media in France, at The Local and then The Connexion. He holds a history degree from the University of Edinburgh, and a master’s degree in journalism from the Centre universitaire d'enseignement du journalisme in Strasbourg.

Katarína Halušková

Katarína Halušková is a policy and project management professional with six years of experience working at the intersection of research, innovation, higher education, and sustainability. She previously worked at ABIS – The Academy of Business in Society, where she led EU-funded Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe projects focused on Open Science, Circular Economy, research careers and assessment. Katarina has rich experience in stakeholder engagement, strategic communication, and organising high-level events and dialogues bridging academic, industry and policy sectors. She holds a Master’s in International Trade with a minor in Commercial Communication, and has studied in the Czech Republic, Germany and the USA. At Science|Business, she contributes to policy analysis, network coordination, and shaping the European R&I landscape.  

Edit Herczog

Edit is Director General of the strategic foresight consultancy company Vision & Values situated in Brussels.  She is Chair of the Administrative Board of the European Union’s Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER). She is Senior EU Liaison Adviser to GÉANT and Senior Advisor at the Science Business Widening Initiative. She is Board member of Research Data Alliance Europe and former Member of the Global Council (2017-2023). She is co-chair of the RDA FAIR Data Maturity Model Working Group. She serves on the Board of the Transatlantic Policy Network (TPN). 

Prior to establishing her company, she served two consecutive terms in the European Parliament as a Member (MEP) (2004-2014). She served and worked on files in Committees regarding the budget, budgetary discharge, internal market, industry, research, energy and space policy. She also served on the governance of several parliamentary forums (European Energy Forum, European Internet Foundation, Knowledge 4 Innovation, Kangaroo Group etc.). Prior, she was member of the Hungarian Parliament in which role she was delegate to the Council of Europe. Before her political engagement, she worked in the private sector as regional (CEE) sales and technical manager for the specialty chemicals company, National Starch & Chemical (part of Unilever and later ICI). 

She has an MSc in food conservation engineering. She was Research Fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Teaching Assistant at the University of Horticulture. Edit holds a Certificate of Company Direction for strategic marketing, financial management and company law from the Institute of Directors. 

Richard L. Hudson

Editorial Director & Vice Chair of the Board
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Rich has been a leading science and technology journalist for 40 years. In 2004 he co-founded London- and Brussels-based Science Business Publishing Ltd., a media and communications company focused on research and innovation in Europe. He is currently editorial director and vice chair of the Board of Directors. Previously, he was with the Wall Street Journal for 25 years in the US and Europe, as reporter, technology editor and, from 1997 to 2003, managing editor of the European edition. He began his career at the Boston Globe.

He is co-author of a book, now a best-seller in 13 languages, on how bad math on Wall Street leads to big losses: “The (mis)Behavior of Markets: A fractal view of risk, ruin & reward.” He wrote it with famed Yale/IBM mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot. It won the Business Book of the Year award at the 2004 Frankfurt Book Fair, and according to Die Zeit, was read and “mentioned again and again in conversation” by Angela Merkel after the 2008 crash.

He has been a member or rapporteur of numerous European Commission expert groups, currently including the Foresight Expert Group of the EU’s agricultural research steering committee. He was from 2018 to 2021 an honorary professor at University College London’s Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy. He is a graduate of Harvard College and a former Knight Fellow at MIT.

David Matthews

David Matthews is international editor at Science|Business. He covers global research and development topics such as artificial intelligence, biosecurity and the geopolitics of science. Previously he was Europe correspondent for Times Higher Education, and has written for publications including Nature, the Guardian and the Register. David holds a degree in modern history from the University of Oxford, a master’s degree in journalism from City, University of London, and studied Chinese at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He lives in Berlin. 

Ian Mundell

Ian manages website editorial content and writes The Ecosystem, a fortnightly column from Science|Business on the people, policies and places innovating in Europe. He is a freelance journalist, based in Brussels, specialising in science, innovation and higher education. In the past he has written for Politico Europe, European Voice, New Scientist and Nature. For several years he was editor of Research Fortnight and Research Europe.

Eleonora Nadin

Eleonora joined Science|Business in June 2023 as part of the communications and events team. She moved to Brussels in 2019 for a traineeship at the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region liaison office and worked for two years at Vanguard Initiative as Information and Communication Officer. She has an academic background in humanities and holds a Master's degree in international cooperation from the University of Bologna. 

Goda Naujokaitytė

EU Funding Editor

Goda joined Science|Business in April 2020. Previously, she interned at the Council of the European Union and the Guardian News Media, among other organisations in the UK and Lithuania. Goda holds a bachelor’s degree in communication from the University of Nottingham and a master’s degree in data journalism from Cardiff University.  

Denitsa Nikolova

Denitsa is programme manager at Science|Business, where she coordinates the organisation’s Widening Initiative Group, fostering dialogue and collaboration between policymakers, research institutions, and innovation stakeholders across Europe. Her work focuses on strengthening participation and capacity in European research and innovation programmes. Denitsa holds a master’s degree in international security, and a bachelor’s degree on European studies with focus on Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans, both from the University of Groningen.

David Pringle

Senior Advisor

An experienced business journalist, David Pringle is a London-based analyst, writer and editor working with organisations in the telecoms, media and technology sectors. A regular moderator of panel discussions at major industry conferences, David also serves as an editor and presenter on Mobile World Live television at the Mobile World Congress. Between 2000 and 2005, David was the European technology and telecommunications correspondent for The Wall Street Journal covering Vodafone, Nokia, Ericsson, British Telecom and other major multinationals. He has also served as deputy editor of Information Strategy, a pan-European title owned by The Economist Group.

Juliette Portala

After some years covering business breaking news with a strong focus on sustainable finance and fossil fuel players at Reuters, Juliette went on as a freelance journalist to try to better link up the energy and climate crisis while reporting on environmental and wildlife conservation issues for news outlets like Mongabay, Net Zero Investor and Clean Energy Wire. She joined Science|Business in December 2024.

Jeroen Vanhecke

Jeroen has a degree in economics, with additional degrees in HR management and Corporate Performance management. He has spent a large part of his career as manager for finance, HR and administrative matters in both private companies as in an industry association.