Dr. Stroobants is on the Steering Group of the Forum on Publishing and Research Assessment.
Dr Karen Stroobants is Director at CultureBase, a consultancy that supports research organisations to improve how research is done. She specialises in research culture and research assessment, with recent projects including the development of a UK good practice exchange on research culture and evaluation of the Swiss National Science Foundation’s evaluation procedure and narrative CV.
Karen was the penholder for drafting the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment, and has been Vice-Chair of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment since 2022. She is a member of the Scoping Group of the OECD Global Science Forum activity on research assessment and incentives.
Karen previously held policy and research roles at the Royal Society of Chemistry, RAND Europe and the Royal Society. Prior to this, she completed a Marie-Sklodowska Curie Fellowship at the University of Cambridge, UK. She trained as a chemist at KU Leuven, Belgium, where she also obtained her PhD in 2014.
This page was updated in September 2025.
