13. Ursa Opara

Slovenia, University of Ljubljana, ENRIO

Urša Opara Krašovec is a chemist and scientific counsellor at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of electrical engineering. She has been involved in several international research projects related to advanced materials for solar energy systems and supervised several PhD students. She is also an advocate for women’s and worker’s rights in Academia.

Since 2013 she has been involved in raising the awareness on research integrity challenges. She was engaged in the initiatives towards the establishment of the National Council on Ethics and Integrity in Science as evident also through the ENRIO country report for Slovenia. In 2014 she joined ENRIO as a representative of the national Commission of Women in Science. During the ENRIO transition from a network to legal entity, she served as a vice-chair. She also contributed to the ENRIO Handbook on Whistleblower Protection in Research. She was the coordinator of the ENRIO2025 Congress on Research Integrity Practice.