Dr. Ana Helman is a Science Officer with the European Science Foundation - Science Connect based in Strasbourg, France. She is currently managing activities related to research infrastructures that include landscape and services mapping, cataloguing and the assessment of socio-economic impact. She is also involved in the Graphene Flagship, one of Europe’s biggest research initiative funded by the EU as European Alignment Officer responsible for co-ordination and alignment between EU and national research programmes as well as international collaborations with the USA, Korea, Japan, China and Australia. She has extensive (10+ years) experience in managing large-scale research programmes and networks, and coordinating strategic work of expert committees. She has been expert evaluator and member of two advisory groups for the European Commission (DG Research) and has collaborated with the OECD on a policy paper. During 2012-2014 she was working at the US National Science Foundation’s Europe-Eurasia Office at the US Embassy in Paris on promoting collaboration between US and European researchers and research funding organisations. Her scientific background is in semiconductor physics and he has worked as researcher both in academia, with a PhD from the University of Paris Sud France, and in industry, at Philips Research laboratories in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Ana is fluent in English, French, Italian and Croatian, and has basic knowledge and understanding of German and Dutch.