Dr Izaskun Lacunza is a science policy practitioner running the International Projects Unit at the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT). She is focused on bringing science beyond the frontiers of academia and supporting researchers towards meaningful and diverse careers.

She is the coordinator of the Science and Technology Office of the Congress of Deputies, working on providing with scientific evidence on relevant topics to Members of Parliament in order to support science informed policy making.

On the other hand, she coordinates FECYT´s participation in EURAXESS and European related projects in order to create the conditions for researchers to fully develop their potential and to have open, diverse, intersectoral, international and interdisciplinary career paths in an open science framework. She holds PhD in Chemistry.