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Marie Louise B Nosch

ALLEA Vice-President and Board Member | Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters

Marie Louise B Nosch is Danish and born in 1970. She studied Ancient Greek History in Nancy (France) and in Napoli (Italy), and completed her doctoral thesis in Salzburg (Austria). Her special field of research is Aegean epigraphy and Mycenaean Linear B inscriptions, as well as ancient textile production. She was the Director of the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for Textile Research (2005-2016) at the University of Copenhagen, and she is Professor of Ancient Greek History in the University of Copenhagen (2009- ). In 2018, she co-founded a talent and excellence programme for young and mid-career scholars in the same university. She has been a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters since 2017 and served as President between 2020-2024.

Her science-policy portfolio includes leading efforts to restructure ALLEA’s science-policy work, overseeing ALLEA’s activities related to the European Research Area and Framework Programmes, and supporting other science-policy initiatives, such as academic freedom, research culture, and Open Science. Additional responsibilities include co-representing ALLEA in Brussels and contributing to matters related to support for Ukraine (jointly with the ALLEA President).