Sofía Sánchez Seda

Sofía Sánchez Seda

Sofía Sánchez holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from the University of Seville and a Master’s Degree in Social Media Marketing, specialised in Market Research, from the University of Lleida. With more than 10 years of experience, she has developed her career in the promotion of innovation and research-driven initiatives within international environments. She has led the communication strategy of the Agrotecnio research centre, a centre of excellence based in Catalonia, and has also managed dissemination activities for European and national projects in plant biotechnology, circular economy and energy. As an active member of the Spanish Association for Science Communication (AECC), she has delivered training sessions for researchers focused on increasing the visibility and reach of their work.

At LifeWatch ERIC, she serves as Communication and Internationalisation Project Manager of the RECUP-DAS project, coordinating and implementing its communication, dissemination, internationalisation, and exploitation activities to maximise the visibility and impact of its results.

Main Publications

  • Solé-Llussà, A., Saba-Mayoral, A., Sánchez, S., Capell, T., & Ibáñez, M. (2024). SARS-CoV-2 spike protein produced by transgenic rice: research laboratory experience with secondary science students. Journal of Biological Education, 58(5), 1628–1640. https://doi.org/10.1080/00219266.2023.2252843

Eleonora Schulze-Battmann

Eleonora Schulze-Battmann

Eleonora Schulze-Battmann holds a Master’s degree in Public and Social Communication Sciences from the University of Bologna and a Bachelor’s degree in Intercultural Mediation from the University of Bari. She joined LifeWatch ERIC in August 2025 as a Communication Specialist and, since March 2026, she has been serving in a newly established hybrid role as Visual Communication Specialist & Project Manager.

With over ten years of experience in communication for European projects across Horizon Europe, Interreg, and Erasmus+, she previously worked as EU Communication Manager in organisations focusing on topics from youth volunteering to the blue economy.

At LifeWatch ERIC, she combines visual communication and project management, producing multimedia content, contributing to communication work packages in EU projects, and supporting scientific events, while also coordinating project activities, reporting, and proposal development.

Madeira Scauri

Madeira Scauri

Madeira Scauri holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures, with a focus on Press and Cultural Journalism, from the Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale.”

With extensive experience in communication, dissemination, and outreach, Madeira previously served as the EU Project Communication, Dissemination & Outreach Manager at ENCO Engineering and Consulting. In this role, she was the Communication and Dissemination leader for projects such as MERLIN, BioSupPack, and CISUFLO, organised major EU events, and collaborated with stakeholders across various sectors. She also contributed to the European Commission’s Digital Innovation Lab at DG DIGIT, focusing on co-creation, content development, and stakeholder engagement.

Madeira is an experienced EU Project Communication Officer at LifeWatch ERIC, where she is the Communication and Dissemination leader of RESTORE4Cs and task leader of MARBEFES. She is also involved in the communication and dissemination efforts for several other Horizon EU projects, including FAIR IMPACT, ANERIS, DTO-BioFlow, DOORS, etc. Her responsibilities include content creation, social media management, and coordinating high-profile events.

Laura Caciagli

Laura Caciagli
Science Communication Specialist, LifeWatch ERIC 
Graduated with honours in Biology (course of study: Ecology), with a PhD in Evolutionistic Biology at the University of Pisa, and a Master in Science Communication at SISSA (International School for Advanced Studies), Trieste, Italy. She has over fourteen year of professional experience in the field of science communication and journalism, having worked for Italian magazines and research institutions of international and national relevance, such as the CMCC Foundation (Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change) and the Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT) of the National Research Council (CNR).
She joined LifeWatch ERIC communication office in 2022, being in particular involved in the coordination of LifeWatching WebTV activities and in many European projects dealing with marine sciences, biodiversity and ecosystem research, coordinating communication tasks concerning the design and development of multimedia products
and the organisation of events.

Sara Montinaro

Sara Montinaro

Sara Montinaro is the Chief Communication Officer of LifeWatch ERIC. Graduated in Communication Studies in 2007, she has over fifteen-year professional experience in the field of communications, in particular digital one, at the European level, having worked for European Institutions, such as the Committee of the Regions and European Parliament, international organisations and research infrastructures. Since 2014, she has been coordinating LifeWatch Italy communication activities and since 2018 she has been in charge of coordinating LifeWatch ERIC communication office and dissemination activities. She has been involved in a number of European and national projects related to biodiversity and ecosystem research and the application of the scientific method, for what concerns the planning and implementation of dissemination and communication tasks targeting the younger generations  through gaming tools and activities, events and specifically tailored publications.

Cristina Mancarella

Cristina Mancarella

Cristina Mancarella joined LifeWatch ERIC in 2024 as Digital Communication Officer, supporting the Chief Communication Officer in representing the organisation across digital platforms, strategic communications, stakeholder relations, and public-facing initiatives.

She works closely with scientific communication specialists, project managers, scientific networking officers, and the communication representatives of both European projects and LifeWatch ERIC’s National Distributed Centres.

Cristina holds a Bachelor’s degree in Interpreting, Translation and Cultural Mediation, and a Master’s degree in Linguistics, which can be defined as the scientific study of language.

This discipline spans a wide range of fields, from the physics of speech sounds and the cognitive processes behind language, to grammar and meaning, computational linguistics, historical language evolution, and even studies of animal communication. It is a broad, interdisciplinary field that bridges elements of neuroscience, anthropology, computer science, philosophy and more, offering tools to understand how meaning is created, processed, and shared across cultures and systems.

This background shaped her more than 10 years of experience in communication roles across both commercial and EU research contexts, including several H2020 projects where she led communication and dissemination work packages.