Dr. Ana I. Faustino (she/her)

Project Lead

Ana.Faustino@mfn.berlin+49 30 889 140 - 8122
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Area:
Society and Nature
Department:
Public Science

As Head of IETI at Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, I lead the strategic development, coordination, and management of the IETI project, including team leadership, project governance, funding, partnerships, and the IETI Hub for Research Impact. My work focuses on leading and conducting action research and participatory processes on institutional change, culture change, and impact management, and on translating research findings into frameworks, publications, and capacity-building activities that strengthen research impact and public engagement.

I am part of the research areas and working groups:
Knowledge for Action

Project(s)

  • Third-Party Funded Project

    IETI

    We accelerate and enable impactful exchange and interaction between science and society

Vita

Dr Ana I. Faustino is a senior project lead and researcher with over nine years of experience working at the intersection of science and society. She has contributed to European, Portuguese, and German institutions and projects, applying action research, participatory, transdisciplinary, co-creation, multi-stakeholder, capacity-building, and impact-oriented approaches to promote change. Ana currently leads the IETI project at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, where she serves as principal investigator and is responsible for project, team, research, and communication management. Her previous roles include work with the EC-H2020 Open Science Hub Network, Open Science Hub Portugal, and the Falling Walls Foundation. With more than 13 years of scientific research experience spanning action research, co-creation, social neuroscience, behavioural biology, and ecology, Ana has authored multiple scientific papers, books, book chapters, and reports. She holds a degree in Biology and a Master’s in Ecology from the University of Coimbra (Portugal), a PhD in Behavioural Biology from the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Champalimaud Research, and ISPA (Lisbon, Portugal), and conducted postdoctoral research in neuroscience at the Charité and Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany). You can find Dr Ana I. Faustino's extended curriculum vitae here.

Publications

Faustino, A., Shennan, V., Wendler, J. (2024). Impact: Definitions, How to Manage It, A case study. (6). Museum für Naturkunde Berlin - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7479/m82c-m683Open Access