Our values
We have high ethical standards, including:
- Education: Educate scientists about open science
- Transparency: Emphasize transparency and the sharing of resources, material, knowledge and experiences
- Open science: Promote citizen science and decentralized access to science
- Modesty: Know you don’t know everything
- Community: Carefully listen to any concerns and questions and respond honestly
- Respect: Respect humans and all living systems
- Responsibility: Recognize the complexity and dynamics of science and research and our responsibility towards them
Core team
Role in OLS:
Director of Learning and Technology
Bérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.
Role in OLS:
Director of Partnerships and Strategy
Malvika Sharan is a Senior Researcher at The Alan Turing Institute, where she leads a team of community managers and co-leads The Turing Way, a community-led handbook on data science. She is a co-founder of Open Life Science, and an active contributor of several open source/science projects. Connect with her on topics such as community building, open science, strategic collaboration and representation of marginalised members in leadership.
Role in OLS:
Executive Director, Business and Development Lead
Yo is the executive director and a co-founder of OLS. As an EngD student at the University of Manchester, Yo is studying pathogen-related data sharing and sustainability of open source software.Yo is a founder of Code is Science, and previously, they were editor for the PLOS Open Source Toolkit, editor emeritus at the Journal of Open Source Software, board member of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a software developer at the University of Cambridge, working on an open source biological data warehouse called InterMine.
Role in OLS:
Community Researcher & Programme Coordinator (contract)
Chilean worker and researcher. Social scientist (wannabe). I am an immigrant, not an expat. Open science hardware was my entrance to the world of critical open science. “Critical” as in: it matters who gets to be involved in science.
Role in OLS:
Programme Manager & Catalyst (contract)
Role in OLS:
Chief of Staff
Patricia is currently a Research Data Specialist working at the Digital Curation Centre at the University of Edinburgh. Before joining the DCC, she was the Research Repository Advisor at the University of Birmingham and have previously worked as a data librarian at CERN’s Scientific Information Service working closely with software developers to deliver data and code sharing solutions. She loves collaborating openly and making projects welcoming to new comers.
Role in OLS:
Resident Fellow
Researcher
Role in OLS:
Developer (contract)
I am a spirited human who specialises in breaking stereotypes and exceeding expectation. A student nurse by day, and techie by night. I enjoy podcasts, horror flicks and Jack Reacher novels.
Role in OLS:
Designer (contract)
Jilaga is a design enthusiast whose strongest attribute is seeing every layer of design as important as the final work and believes every design should communicate empathy.
Role in OLS:
Resident Fellow (contract)
Role in OLS:
Finance manager
I’m a Psychology PhD student in the Centre for Identity and Intergroup Relations at Queen’s University Belfast, where I research conspiracy theory beliefs about gender equality. I’m also a Community Development Manager for the Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (FORRT).
Role in OLS:
Executive Assistant (contract)
Role in OLS:
NASA Cohort Coordinator (contract)
I work as data manager at CONABIO where I develop FAIR workflows for biodiversity and agricultural data. I also study a PhD at UNAM, and my research is focused on the challenges for integrating social and ecological data. I love working in interdisciplinary projects that combine my interests in sustainability, data and open research
Role in OLS:
Resident Fellow
Seun, a biochemistry graduate from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, he is co-leading the Bioinformatics Outreach Nigeria (BON) project which aims to improve bioinformatics capacity using open science principles among early-career researchers, he has published ten peer-reviewed articles, and he currently serves as an OLS Resident Fellow.
Alumni
Role in OLS:
Director of Finance and Operations
Emmy is the Director of Finance and Operations at Open Life Science and Engagement Lead at Invest in Open Infrastructure. She is passionate and curious about open, research culture and knowledge equity. Her expertise is in community design, and open research and scholarly communication.
Get involved
If you think you can help then please check out our contributors’ guidelines and our project board.
Please note that it’s very important to us that we maintain a positive and supportive environment for everyone who wants to participate. When you join us we ask that you follow our code of conduct in all interactions both on and offline.