Julen is a postdoctoral researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, working on in vitro liver toxicity testing of chemicals. As part of ONTOX project, he is currently involved in setting up liver-based in vitro test batteries to detect cholestasis and steatosis. Julen declares that ASPIS Academy provides the optimal network to grow as a scientist, securing collaborations with other early career researchers and giving opportunities to learn from senior colleagues.

Eliska is the former chair of the ASPIS Academy and represents the ONTOX project. She is a postdoctoral researcher working at the Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine in Germany. She is fascinated by the complexity of brain development and is developing human-relevant New Approach Methodologies that assess the impacts of chemicals on brain development.

Marie is a PhD candidate at Utrecht University of Applied Sciences (HU). In ONTOX, she investigates the use of Natural Language Processing and in particular Large Language Models for information extraction and evidence review from scientific text.

Peter is a PhD Candidate at the Centre of Experimental Medicine at the  Slovak Academy of Sciences. His work focuses on in vitro safety testing of medical devices, pharmaceutical products, and chemicals. As part of ONTOX project, he contributes to the Communication and Dissemination team.

Rita is an industrial PhD Student at ProtoQSAR in Valencia (Spain) and works on developing computational strategies to predict liver toxicity from its underlying mechanisms. As a part of ONTOX, she is involved in developing and evaluating different computational tools to predict toxicological-related activities and the integration of those into the next-generation risk assessment framework.

Eike is a PhD student at the University of Konstanz. As part of RISK-HUNT3R he is working on in-vitro methods for detecting toxicant-induced changes of human neuronal signalling and function.

Hiba is a PhD candidate at Jagiellonian University, focusing her research on the investigation of models for cardiac electrophysiology. She is contributing to the RISK-HUNT3R project by working on building and calibrating PBPK models and developing qAOP models for toxicity prediction. Beyond academia, she enjoys crocheting, embroidery, gymnastics, and cooking.