People

Research Fellow, RoRI and Independent Researcher, the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) in Argentina

Laura Rovelli is an independent researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) in Argentina, and professor at La Plata National University (UNLP) in Argentina. She is interested in research assessment change and policies in Latin America, with a focus on research assessment ideas and instruments, incentives for open science and doctoral evaluation, and research training in higher education.

Laura Rovelli is a political scientist and has a PhD in Social Science from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. From 2020 to 2024, she coordinated the Latin American Forum for Research Assessment (FOLEC) from the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) and since 2022 onwards, she is a member of the Executive Board of DORA.

At present, she leads a research project on the potentialities and challenges in early academic career researchers in Latin America and is member of CLACSO’s WG “Open Science as a Common Good”.