Johannes Vogel is Director General at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and Professor for Biodiversity and Public Science at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

He is President of the European Citizen Science Association and advises the EU Commission and the German Federal Government.

His interests are democracy and innovation, the role of museums in science and society, public engagement with science, open science, science policy and nature.

He received his doctorate in genetics from the University of Cambridge and subsequently worked at the Natural History Museum in London.