René Aquarius

Biomedical Scientist

René Aquarius, PhD, is a biomedical scientist in the Department of Neurosurgery at Radboud university medical center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Alongside research in vascular neurosurgery, he works as a forensic meta-scientist (“science sleuth”), specialising in image problems in published papers and research security. He co-led a PLOS Biology study that flagged 243 animal studies of hemorrhagic stroke for problematic images, and has documented stealth corrections and peer-review mills. His work has been covered by Retraction Watch, Science, and Nature, and he has written for Times Higher Education and FoSci.