The Scientific Panel advises the AI Office and national authorities on the implementation the AI Act and assessment of the impacts and risks of General-Purpose AI (GPAI) models.
The AI Act Scientific Panel is an expert advisory body established by the European Commission in accordance with Article 68 of the AI Act in conjunction with Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/454. 60 world-class independent AI experts have been recruited to join the panel. These leading technical experts will directly support the implementation and enforcement of the AI Act.
The core responsibilities of the panel include alerting the AI Office to systemic risks, advising on GPAI classification and evaluation methodologies and supporting market surveillance activities. This panel is complimentary to the Advisory Forum, which provides broader stakeholder input to the Commission and the AI Board from across industry, civil society, and academia.
The selected experts contribute with their expertise across a broad range of areas, including GPAI capability evaluation, risk assessment methodologies, technical risk mitigations, misuse/deployment risks, cyber offence risks, provider cybersecurity, emergent systemic risks, and compute measurement.
Besides ensuring top-tier expertise, the selection also considered geographic balance (at most 3 nationals from each country) and gender balance, giving preference to the underrepresented gender when candidates were equally qualified.
The experts are appointed to the panel for a 24-month term, renewable, in personal capacity. Most experts work in academia, while others work in organisations linked to the public sector, independent research, or civil society. The experts have each signed a declaration of confidentiality (PDF) and a declaration of commitment (PDF) in advance of taking on work and activities as part of the panel. The members have nominated:
- Chair: Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh
- Vice-chair: Nicolas Moës
A commission decision will formalise the nomination.
On 9 October 2026, a special meeting of the panel was convened to discuss incidents of loss of control of models and technical developments related to monitorability of models and recursive self-improvement.
List of experts
Below you can find the list of selected experts sorted alphabetically by surname. You can also download a compiled information about the experts (PDF), including their biographies and declarations of interest.
| Alessandro Abate (Italy) | Jean Gové (Malta) | Jana Nowaková (Czechia) |
| Alexandra Abbas (Hungary) | Jakub Growiec (Poland) | Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh (Ireland) |
| Sahar Abdelnabi (Egypt) | Fredrik Heintz (Sweden) | Lorenzo Pacchiardi (Italy) |
| Markus Anderljung (Sweden) | Maarten Herbosch (Belgium) | Daniel Paleka (Croatia) |
| Maksym Andriushchenko (Ukraine) | José Hernández-Orallo (Spain) | Jassi Pannu (Canada) |
| Yoshua Bengio (Canada) | Jacob Hilton (United Kingdom) | Walter Quattrociocchi (Italy) |
| Veselka Boeva (Bulgaria) | Marius Hobbhahn (Germany) | Roxana Radu (Romania) |
| Miles Brundage (United States of America) | Zhijing Jin (China) | Dan Saattrup Smart (Denmark) |
| Ivana Budinská (Slovakia) | Vincent Lenders (Switzerland) | Matthias Samwald (Austria) |
| Céline Castets-Renard (France) | Janika Leoste (Estonia) | Nandi Schoots (Netherlands) |
| Raja Chatila (France) | Kamilė Lukošiūtė (Lithuania) | Judith Simon (Germany) |
| Michael Chen (United States of America) | Merja Mattila (Finland) | Charlotte Stix (Austria) |
| Sebastian Cygert (Poland) | Mantas Mazeika (Lithuania) | Emilija Stojmenova Duh (Slovenia) |
| Tom David (France) | Charalambos Menelaou (Cyprus) | Karl Tuyls (Belgium) |
| Maarten de Rijke (Netherlands) | Nicolas Moës (Belgium) | Claudio Mayrink Verdun (Portugal) |
| Javier Del Ser (Spain) | Halldóra Mogensen (Iceland) | Bianca Vieru (Romania) |
| Michèle Finck (Luxembourg) | Haralambos Mouratidis (Greece) | Katarzyna Wac (Poland) |
| Mario Fritz (Germany) | Julia Mykhailiuk (Norway) | Hjalmar Wijk (Sweden) |
| Adam Gleave (United Kingdom) | Cassidy Nelson (Australia) | Anna Katariina Wisakanto (Finland) |
| Asunción Gómez-Pérez (Spain) | Anastasija Nikiforova (Latvia) | Ivan Zelinka (Czechia) |
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