Project Members

GOAL (2022 – 2024): The team members who work together in the GOAL project come from different institutions: ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU), University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW), Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and University of Teacher Education Fribourg (HEP | PH FR).

GOAL-Hub (July 2025 – December 2026): The team members who work together in the GOAL-Hub project come two institutions: ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU).

In addition to the team, we have a Sounding Board with members of the following institutions: University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW), Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), University of Fribourg (U. FR), and University of Teacher Education of Thurgau (PH Thurgau).

Dr. Enrique Corredera Nilsson
(ZHAW)

Project Coordinator

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PhD in History (2016) at the Universities of Konstanz (Germany) and Complutense (Spain).

Between 2017 and July 2021 he was postdoctoral researcher and teaching assistant at the University of Bern.

Since May 2021 Enrique Corredera works at the ZHAW’s University Library. He is part of the Research & Infrastructure Area, where he focuses on Open Science topics.

Since January 2022 Dr Corredera is the project coordinator for GOAL.

Dr. Elena Šimukovič
(ZHAW)

Project Member

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Elena's professional and academic background is in Library and Information Sciences. She has largely built her career working on various issues related to Open Science.

Elena completed her PhD thesis in Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna, where she examined the expectations attached to the proposed Open Access transition in academic publishing.

As head of Research & Infrastructure area at the ZHAW university library she oversees the overall progress of the GOAL project.

Cornelia Brunner
(ZHAW)

Project Member

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Cornelia Brunner holds a degree in German and Spanish language and literature of the University of Zurich. After completing her degree, she worked as a language teacher.

Through further education in information science, she sought her way into the world of libraries and archives. She has been working in the ZHAW University Library since 2022, focusing on the digital Open Access repository.

Dr. Simone Rosenkranz Verhelst
(HSLU)

Project Member

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Simone studied Jewish and Islamic Studies at Lucerne, Basel and Jerusalem; after having received her doctorate in Jewish Studies she worked at the chair of Judaistik at the University of Lucerne.

Since 2003 she is Subject Librarian at the Central and University Library Lucerne (ZHB Luzern), since 2015 she is responsible for Open Access at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and since 2019 she is head of the E-Science Departement at Central and University Library Lucerne.

Alongside she is a lecturer at the University of Lucerne and at the University of Berne.

Sebastian Preher
(HSLU)

Project member

Sebastian got his bachelor’s degree in information science from the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons (FHGR). Since 2019 he has been working at the central and university library Lucerne (ZHB) in acquisitions. Since 2020 he also works as part of their E-Science team in rights clearance for the Lucerne Open Access Repository (LORY).