Martina Hartl is Deputy Head of Unit for International Research Cooperation at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Women, Science and Research. A sociologist by training, she has worked in the ministry for more than 20 years. She began her career in the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, where she became involved in EU research policy as Austrian delegate to the relevant Programme Committees under the Sixth and Seventh EU Framework Programmes. From 2009 to 2013, she served as a Seconded National Expert at the European Commission’s Directorate‑General for Research and Innovation in Brussels, working on “Social Sciences and Humanities” and “Sharing Excellence and Widening Participation”. Upon returning to Vienna, she joined the Unit for International Research Cooperation and Science Diplomacy. Her responsibilities include international cooperation at EU level, bilateral and multilateral collaboration beyond the EU, and regional initiatives with neighbouring countries. She is a member of the ERA Forum Subgroup on the “Global Approach to R&I Cooperation” and, since 2019, has been the Austrian delegate to the Marie Skłodowska‑Curie Actions. In the field of science diplomacy, she contributed to the Strategic Forum for International S&T Cooperation (SFIC) Task Force on Science Diplomacy (2019–2021) and was part of the editorial team for the EU report “A European Framework for Science Diplomacy: Recommendations of the EU Science Diplomacy Working Groups,” published in February 2025. She is currently a member of the EU Steering Group on Science Diplomacy and co‑organised the first Austrian Science Diplomacy Roundtable in 2025.