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The OLS-6 program
Purpose: Training for early stage researchers and young leaders interested in furthering their Open Science skills
Outcome: Ambassadors for Open Science practice, training and education across multiple European and international bioinformatics communities.
Process: A 16-week mentoring & training program, based on the Mozilla Open Leader program, helping participants in becoming Open Science ambassadors by using three principles:
- Sharing essential knowledge required to create, lead, and sustain an Open Science project.
- Connecting members across different communities, backgrounds, and identities by creating space in this program for them to share their experiences and expertise.
- Empowering them to become effective Open Science ambassadors in their communities.
Goals and Learning Objectives
The vision of OLS is to strengthen Open Science skills for early stage researchers and young leaders in science.
At the end of the program, our participants will be able to:
- Describe and define the terms openness, open science, open leadership, community interactions, value exchanges, inclusivity, accessibility, open Science practices in developing resources and training
- Learn how to apply those principles to open leadership and working open in their projects and communities . Learn how to collect, invite, and tell stories that demonstrate how and why openness benefits the communities they serve
- Give original examples for the types of openness in science
- Design
- Illustrate the need for a project, its vision, and its goals
- Embrace and communicate the benefits of Open Science and how to strategically apply different open practices to their work
- Identify the public resources to share their data
- Identify the different type of Open Access and associated journals
- Build
- Start any project with openness in mind from day one
- Setup a project repository on GitHub using best practices for enabling collaboration
- Choose and apply open licenses appropriately
- Empower
- Create and enforce a safe working environment
- Promote the values of Open Science to empower others to lead and collaborate
- Include a broad range of contributors in their work
- Communicate their work and vision in a 2min demo of elevator pitch
- Lead an open project in science
Timeline
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June 1, 2022 : Call for Application opens
See the guidelines and templates
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June 20, 2022 (13:00 Universal Time): Application webinar( Talk + Q&A)
Register to join, or watch recordings from previous webinars on YouTube
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July 1, 2022 (540.0 Universal Time): Application Clinic Call( Q&A)
At this call, OLS team will be available to provide help if you have any questions related to your application. Register to join.
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July 7, 2022 : Call for applications closed
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August 1, 2022 : Successful applicants announced
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September 19, 2022: Start of the program
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January 16, 2023: End of the program
Schedule
During the program,
- Mentors and mentees meet every 2 weeks for a 30 minutes call
- Mentees participate every ~2 weeks to 90-minutes cohort calls during which the program leaders introduce new topics and resources, facilitate break-out discussions, and invite experts from the field to give talks
- Mentees can participate to skill-up, Q&A or coworking sessions in the weeks without cohort calls
- Mentors take part in mentoring workshop and calls
Organizers will inform participants of the week schedule by email.
Role Descriptions
Project leads (aka Mentees)
Participants join this program with a project that they either are already working on or want to develop during this program. More details about the role of a project lead (mentee) can be found here.
For the sixth round of the OLS program, we welcome 41 participants with 27 projects.
Mentors
Our project leads are supported in this program by our mentor-community who are paired based on the compatibility of expertise, interests and requirements of their projects. Our mentors are Open Science practitioners and champions with previous experiences in training and mentoring. They are currently working in different professions in data science, publishing, community building, software development, clinical studies, industries, scientific training and IT services.
Mentors advise and inspire
- Connect: to people, programs, companies
- Recommend: resources, readings, classes, experiences
- Feedback: for the project leads to consider
Pool of mentors
We thank the 32 mentors this round.
I am an incoming assistant professor at The University of Amsterdam, working in the field of astrochemistry/astrobiology. I love to teach and my work motto is doing fun stuff with nice people. I talk a lot and cannot properly function without coffee :)
Anne is a Community Manager based at the Alan Turing Institute, co-organiser of the FOSDEM Open Research Room, and an Artistic Research Fellow with the School of Commons. She’s passionate about interdisciplinary work, and supporting community-led spaces for learning and creativity.
I am a Colombian biologist (she/her) with a background in Plant Community Ecology, Biodiversity Informatics, and Open and Responsible Science. I am a core member of The Turing Way and a SSI/OLS Fellow 2023
I’m a recovering academic, with a strong interest in all elements of the data life cycle, from data collection and data analytics, to data curation and good data management practices, and I love figuring out data pipelines and workflows. I believe strongly in open science and open data, and promoting good practices for reproducible research. I have strong interests in capacity development, community building, and mentorship, and have worked in a variety of industries and academic institutes worldwide, and have research and work experience in many different scientific fields including ecology, biology, marine and terrestrial sciences, invasion biology, polar science, and climate change.
Arielle has spent her career to date working in research-adjacent fields, starting with a stint at open access publisher PLOS, where she learnt the importance (and challenges) of open science, code, and data. Currently the Research Project Manager on the Tools, Practices & Systems programme at The Alan Turing Institute, she was a CSCCE Community Engagement Fellow in 2019 and continues to be actively involved in the community. She is a contributor to the Turing Way project.
Batool is a computational biologist affiliated with both KAIMRC in Saudi Arabia and the University of Liverpool in the UK. As an advocate for Open Science and its role in improving scientific and economic outputs in the Middle east, Batool established an Open Science Community in Saudi Arabia (OSCSA). OSCSA aims to create significant value towards Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030, which focus on enhancing knowledge and improving equal access to education in the Kingdom
I am a budding scientist, interested in host-parasite interactions. I am open to continuous learning, and passionate about improving the health of man and animals.
I am a researcher and graduate teaching assistant at the University of Buenos Aires. I design nanomaterials to solve problems, recently using machine learning to guide and optimize the process.
All of my research and community building embraces an open scholarship approach in which I strive to develop more open and sustainable research practices across different disciplines.
Esther works as a Data Steward at Delft University of Technology (Faculty of Applied Sciences) in the Netherlands. As a Data Steward she supports researchers with their data/code management and with sharing their research. Before this, Esther did a PhD in bioanthropology, studying the isotopic composition of human teeth to determine where they grew up.
Stephane Fadanka, is a molecular biologist and Open Science ambassador, passionate about democratizing research tools and methods to enhance equity for researchers. With five years of experience as a co-founder of Mboalab Biotech and as a Research Manager for Beneficial Bio, Stephane has developed protocols, hardware prototypes, and manufacturing processes for local enzyme production in Cameroon. Currently an Arthuro Falashi PhD scholar at the ICGEB in Trieste, Italy, Stephane collaborates with various research groups and organizations to promote Open Science across Africa.
Doing Bioinformatics and ML @ CERTH, Thessaloníki, GR, fan of training, Open Science and e-infras.
Theoretical & Quantitative Ecology freak. SciComm & Open Science leader. Catalyst of movements.
Hans-Rudolf is a Molecular Biologist turned Bioinformatician who is working in the Computational Biology facility at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel Switzerland. Before, he was leading the Bioinformatics Core group at the Sanger Institute in Cambridge UK.
Data scientist involved in research project related to the integration of mental health in gender responsive peacebuilding.
I am an enthusiast for using tech to make processes more efficient and reproducible. Currently, I am the Co-Executive Director of the Digital Research Academy that provides bespoke training in Open Science, Research Software Engineering, and Data Literacy through an international network of expert trainers. Things that make me happy right now are sunshine and spending time with my school-aged kid discovering the world.
PhD in Biomedical Science, with a deep appreciation for living systems at all scales, and an optimism about the lessons that humanity can take from Nature.
Enthusiastic advocate for the fundamental computational skills and practices required for reproducible research.
I am Community Manager RDM and Open Science at VU Amsterdam. My background is in theoretical linguistics. My goal is to help colleagues connect and learn from each other and with each other
Caleb is a 19/20 Mozilla Fellow and a Bioinformatician, interested in teaching, open science, reproducibility, machine learning, FAIR Genomics, and community building.
Michael is a PhD bioinformatics student with a keen interest in epigenetics and genomics. A co-founder of Bioinformatics Hub of Kenya (BHKI). He is a certified Software Carpentries instructor, an Open Life Science (OLS) graduate and a mentor. He is passionate about capacity building!
Multiplicity of skills and interests, within and beyond bioinformatics research and software engineering. Strategic planning of research activities, grant application writing, project management. Commitment to open science and FAIRification, organisation of events, involved in science communication and coding and data science teaching.
Mallory is Coordinator for the EMBL-EBI European Genome-phenome Archive supporting archiving and sharing of personally identifiable genetic and phenotypic human data. Her academic background is in bioinformatics specifically to study post-transcriptional gene regulation. She has worked with Open Science projects including the Galaxy Project and the Human Cell Atlas, and is passionate about promoting metadata standards and best practices.
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.
Software engineer working in the open science space, contributing code and research. Currently a member of the steering committees of Jupyter and NumFOCUS DISC. Developing PyScript for Anaconda and researching the ethos of open science for NASA.
Role in OLS:
Resident Fellow
Researcher
Nadine is a doctoral researcher in computational neuroscience and complex systems where she validates information-theoretic measures of complexity and emergence in both simulated and empirical data. Her work can be described as a solid mixture of mathematics, machine learning, neuroscience, as well as philosophy. She cares about open & reproducible research (and, in this context, good research software) that is aligned with ethical research culture & incentives.
I’m Director of Ethics at Genomics England, working to ensure we can innovate in genomic medicine and research while doing right by the participants who trust us with their data. I’m a philosopher by background and keen to bring better openness, transparency and accountability to the use of health-related data.
A research translator and innovation architect in the life science industry
I’m a molecular neuroscientist with a big interest in all about DNA, biology, data analysis and more importantly…open science and reproducibility! To counteract the screen time, I play with books, yoga, beer and whatever I can research about :)
I’m a strong advocate for equity and inclusion of individuals from marginalized groups in STEM fields. I’m also a passionate community builder and research data manager specialized in metadata and curation with a passion for OpenScience and all things FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperably, Resuable).
I am a DPhil Student studying computational neuroscience, and with a keen interest in investigating bias and fairness in AI models
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.
Mentoring training
Mentorship roles can sound like a big personal responsibility and can be overwhelming for new mentors. To support our mentors in this program, we will offer training, topic-based guided discussions and opportunity for social interaction over 4 calls during the mentorship round:
- 2 training calls in the beginning of the cohort to get participants trained and prepared for their role as mentors
- 1 catch-up call in the middle of the cohort to discuss new topics and challenges that might have occurred and address them
- 1 call at the end to capture experiences of mentors and assess their interest in future cohorts
- Social and co-working calls schedule will be agreed among the mentors as per their needs and interests
In the mentor training, our mentors will then gain mentoring skills (active listening, effective questioning, giving feedback), learn to celebrate successes and gain confidence on navigating challenges in mentoring.
A dedicated slack channel will facilitate open discussions among mentors to help them discuss their experiences, challenges and tips and tricks (contact the team if you are not yet on this channel).
Experts
Experts are invited to join cohort calls or individual mentorship calls to share their experience and expertise during the program.
We thank the 39 persons who registered to be experts in this round.
I am an incoming assistant professor at The University of Amsterdam, working in the field of astrochemistry/astrobiology. I love to teach and my work motto is doing fun stuff with nice people. I talk a lot and cannot properly function without coffee :)
Anne is a Community Manager based at the Alan Turing Institute, co-organiser of the FOSDEM Open Research Room, and an Artistic Research Fellow with the School of Commons. She’s passionate about interdisciplinary work, and supporting community-led spaces for learning and creativity.
aka Laurel! I have experience working as an institutional communicator. Since 2008, I have been in charge of the analysis and planning of comprehensive institutional communication strategies combining digital communication, information systems, and organizations’ voices. I am also a professor at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina.
I am a Colombian biologist (she/her) with a background in Plant Community Ecology, Biodiversity Informatics, and Open and Responsible Science. I am a core member of The Turing Way and a SSI/OLS Fellow 2023
Arielle has spent her career to date working in research-adjacent fields, starting with a stint at open access publisher PLOS, where she learnt the importance (and challenges) of open science, code, and data. Currently the Research Project Manager on the Tools, Practices & Systems programme at The Alan Turing Institute, she was a CSCCE Community Engagement Fellow in 2019 and continues to be actively involved in the community. She is a contributor to the Turing Way project.
Batool is a computational biologist affiliated with both KAIMRC in Saudi Arabia and the University of Liverpool in the UK. As an advocate for Open Science and its role in improving scientific and economic outputs in the Middle east, Batool established an Open Science Community in Saudi Arabia (OSCSA). OSCSA aims to create significant value towards Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030, which focus on enhancing knowledge and improving equal access to education in the Kingdom
Chelle is an advocate for open science, open source software, and inclusivity. As a physical oceanographer focused on remote sensing, she has worked for over 25 years on retrievals of ocean temperature from space and using that data to understand how the ocean impacts our lives.
Deepak works as a Scientific Coordinator for the Swiss Personalized Health Network at SIB. He is highly passionate about being part of projects that are interdisciplinary in nature, and work on building tools and infrastructures that can serve the wider life sciences community.
Physicist turned bioinformatician turned data scientist. Recently finished a PhD analysis yeast transcriptomics. Now, working at EPCC developing use cases for analysing sensitive medical/demographic data sets with safe haven computing environments.
All of my research and community building embraces an open scholarship approach in which I strive to develop more open and sustainable research practices across different disciplines.
Elisa is a Data Steward at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In this role, she supports researchers with many aspects of Research Data Management and Open Research. Elisa has a background in and a passion for history, but also loves the diversity of topics she sees in her daily life supporting researchers from all areas of research.
Esther works as a Data Steward at Delft University of Technology (Faculty of Applied Sciences) in the Netherlands. As a Data Steward she supports researchers with their data/code management and with sharing their research. Before this, Esther did a PhD in bioanthropology, studying the isotopic composition of human teeth to determine where they grew up.
Theoretical & Quantitative Ecology freak. SciComm & Open Science leader. Catalyst of movements.
Hao is the Reproducibility Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. He is passionate about empowering others, whether through training in open science and reproducible research practices or promoting equity and inclusion by dismantling gatekeeping in academia.
Hans-Rudolf is a Molecular Biologist turned Bioinformatician who is working in the Computational Biology facility at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel Switzerland. Before, he was leading the Bioinformatics Core group at the Sanger Institute in Cambridge UK.
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
Jez is Data Services Lead in The British Library’s Research Infrastructure Services team. He has over 10 years of experience developing and delivering research data management services and strategies at research-intensive higher education institutions in the UK, as part of a long-term goal to help communicate and collaborate more effectively using technology. He is an experienced teacher and is involved with The Carpentries as a Certified Instructor and early contributor to Library Carpentry. He is particularly interested in elevating the status of research software alongside research data in the scholarly record, and helping researchers develop the skills to make the most of this. He is a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, 2020 intake.
I am an enthusiast for using tech to make processes more efficient and reproducible. Currently, I am the Co-Executive Director of the Digital Research Academy that provides bespoke training in Open Science, Research Software Engineering, and Data Literacy through an international network of expert trainers. Things that make me happy right now are sunshine and spending time with my school-aged kid discovering the world.
I am Community Manager RDM and Open Science at VU Amsterdam. My background is in theoretical linguistics. My goal is to help colleagues connect and learn from each other and with each other
Caleb is a 19/20 Mozilla Fellow and a Bioinformatician, interested in teaching, open science, reproducibility, machine learning, FAIR Genomics, and community building.
Konrad is interested in the question of how the brain solves the credit assignment problem and similarly how we should assign credit in the real world (through causality). In extension of this main thrust he is interested in applications of causality in biomedical research.
Laura is a human rights and non-discrimination expert researching the societal impact of data, technology and AI. She is currently a Tech Policy Fellow at UC Berkeley.
Lilly works on open source software for open science as the product manager for the Frictionless Data for Reproducible Research project at Open Knowledge Foundation. Lilly has her PhD in neuroscience from Oregon Health and Science University, where she researched brain injury in fruit flies and became an advocate for open science and open data.
Mallory is Coordinator for the EMBL-EBI European Genome-phenome Archive supporting archiving and sharing of personally identifiable genetic and phenotypic human data. Her academic background is in bioinformatics specifically to study post-transcriptional gene regulation. She has worked with Open Science projects including the Galaxy Project and the Human Cell Atlas, and is passionate about promoting metadata standards and best practices.
Software engineer working in the open science space, contributing code and research. Currently a member of the steering committees of Jupyter and NumFOCUS DISC. Developing PyScript for Anaconda and researching the ethos of open science for NASA.
I trained as a physicist in atomic physics / quantum information processing (half theory, half experimental). I now work in the Electron Microscopy core facility at the Francis Crick Institute where I develop new hardware and software solutions for various imaging and image analysis bottlenecks. I have a lot of experience working in multidisciplinary teams and in doing so have learned how to communicate across very different communities.
Undergraduate student studying Computer Science (with an industrial placment) at Newcastle University, currently doing a year long sandwich placement at the Francis Crick institue, situated in the Electron Microscopy STP. Primarily working on different techniques to automate segmentation on 3D electron microscopy data.
I am currently the infrastructure and impact measurement coordinator at MetaDocencia. I collaborate with The Turing Way, the OpenSciency project (formerly the NASA TOPS OpenCore team) and am a 2023 SSI and OLS fellow. I am also co-mentoring two Outreachy interns with the Open Science Community Saudi Arabia.
Role in OLS:
Resident Fellow
Researcher
Systems administrator and PhD student specializing in Workflows, Open Science and data management. I manage research platforms that enhance collaboration and reproducibility, combining technical expertise with advanced research skills.
Nadine is a doctoral researcher in computational neuroscience and complex systems where she validates information-theoretic measures of complexity and emergence in both simulated and empirical data. Her work can be described as a solid mixture of mathematics, machine learning, neuroscience, as well as philosophy. She cares about open & reproducible research (and, in this context, good research software) that is aligned with ethical research culture & incentives.
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.
Former university professor and researcher. IT specialist for R&D in bioinformatics. Wikipedian and open culture enthusiast.
Sara works with communities at Open Knowledge Foundation. She leads the Open Knowledge Network and manages the Frictionless Data community. She has previously worked in EU policy research and advocacy, and has managed projects on digital education and literacy with schools and public libraries from all across Europe. Sara is passionate about the open movement and strongly believes in removing barriers and opening knowledge as a means of empowering citizens and fostering democracy.
I’m a molecular neuroscientist with a big interest in all about DNA, biology, data analysis and more importantly…open science and reproducibility! To counteract the screen time, I play with books, yoga, beer and whatever I can research about :)
I am a young researcher and freelance data scientist, currently pursuing a master’s degree in Systems Biology at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. I have worked in Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics for five years at different laboratories. My current research interests are devoted to Network Science and Machine Learning for drug discovery. I am part of several research, open-science, and software development communities ( ISCBSC, The Carpentries, Streamlit Creators, and Open Life Science. Moreover, I am involved in various initiatives to empower Bioinformatics in Ecuador and Latin America.
I’m a strong advocate for equity and inclusion of individuals from marginalized groups in STEM fields. I’m also a passionate community builder and research data manager specialized in metadata and curation with a passion for OpenScience and all things FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperably, Resuable).
Marta is a scientific project manager within the training team at EMBL-EBI. She organises and facilitates training activities in several European projects and is the product owner of the EMBL-EBI Competency Hub. Marta focuses on providing a great learning experience for participants. She has a background in molecular biology, where her focus was on understanding gene expression. (please, for the other data, take what you already have)
Toby is Director of Curriculum at The Carpentries, a community of practice building global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. Before that, he was a CSCCE CEFP2019 Fellow and community manager for EMBL Bio-IT, a community of bioinformaticians/computational biologists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
Experts sorted by their expertise areas
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ecological niche modeling
Expertise:Biodiversity informatics
I am a Colombian biologist (she/her) with a background in Plant Community Ecology, Biodiversity Informatics, and Open and Responsible Science. I am a core member of The Turing Way and a SSI/OLS Fellow 2023
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Agrobiodiversity
Role in OLS: NASA Cohort Coordinator (contract)
Expertise:Fair, Open data, Data management, Agrobiodiversity, Sustainability, Transdisciplinary researchI 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
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Ally skills training
Expertise:Ecology, Health sciences, R, Git and github, Version control, Time series analysis, Research reproducibility, Community management, Ally skills training
Hao is the Reproducibility Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. He is passionate about empowering others, whether through training in open science and reproducible research practices or promoting equity and inclusion by dismantling gatekeeping in academia.
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Anaconda
Expertise:Open science software (python, Numfocus, Anaconda, Jupyter ecosystems), Open source organization
Software engineer working in the open science space, contributing code and research. Currently a member of the steering committees of Jupyter and NumFOCUS DISC. Developing PyScript for Anaconda and researching the ethos of open science for NASA.
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And inclusion.
Expertise:Biodiversity informatics
I am a Colombian biologist (she/her) with a background in Plant Community Ecology, Biodiversity Informatics, and Open and Responsible Science. I am a core member of The Turing Way and a SSI/OLS Fellow 2023
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Anthropology
Expertise:Community management, Facilitation, Ethnography, Anthropology, Sociology, Interdisciplinary collaboration, Art, Open science, Event organisation
Anne is a Community Manager based at the Alan Turing Institute, co-organiser of the FOSDEM Open Research Room, and an Artistic Research Fellow with the School of Commons. She’s passionate about interdisciplinary work, and supporting community-led spaces for learning and creativity.
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App development
Expertise:Project management, Digitalization, Community building
I am an enthusiast for using tech to make processes more efficient and reproducible. Currently, I am the Co-Executive Director of the Digital Research Academy that provides bespoke training in Open Science, Research Software Engineering, and Data Literacy through an international network of expert trainers. Things that make me happy right now are sunshine and spending time with my school-aged kid discovering the world.
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Archaeology
Expertise:Open protocols, Open data, Research data management, FAIR, Archaeology, Bioanthropology, Isotopes, Osteology, Open science
Esther works as a Data Steward at Delft University of Technology (Faculty of Applied Sciences) in the Netherlands. As a Data Steward she supports researchers with their data/code management and with sharing their research. Before this, Esther did a PhD in bioanthropology, studying the isotopic composition of human teeth to determine where they grew up.
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Astrochemistry
Expertise:Astrochemistry, Diversity, Inclusion & equity, Information literacy, Mentoring, Education, Training
I am an incoming assistant professor at The University of Amsterdam, working in the field of astrochemistry/astrobiology. I love to teach and my work motto is doing fun stuff with nice people. I talk a lot and cannot properly function without coffee :)
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Best practices in open & reproducible science
Expertise:Open science, Reproducible science, Best practices in open & reproducible science, Computational studies, Fair research software, Neuroscience, Complexity science, Information theory, Machine learning, Datascience, Metascience, Psychology, Statistics, Vol
Nadine is a doctoral researcher in computational neuroscience and complex systems where she validates information-theoretic measures of complexity and emergence in both simulated and empirical data. Her work can be described as a solid mixture of mathematics, machine learning, neuroscience, as well as philosophy. She cares about open & reproducible research (and, in this context, good research software) that is aligned with ethical research culture & incentives.
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Bio(medical) ontologies
Expertise:Fair, Knowledge graphs, Terminologies, Bio(medical) ontologies, Data modeling, Data integration
Deepak works as a Scientific Coordinator for the Swiss Personalized Health Network at SIB. He is highly passionate about being part of projects that are interdisciplinary in nature, and work on building tools and infrastructures that can serve the wider life sciences community.
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Bioanthropology
Expertise:Open protocols, Open data, Research data management, FAIR, Archaeology, Bioanthropology, Isotopes, Osteology, Open science
Esther works as a Data Steward at Delft University of Technology (Faculty of Applied Sciences) in the Netherlands. As a Data Steward she supports researchers with their data/code management and with sharing their research. Before this, Esther did a PhD in bioanthropology, studying the isotopic composition of human teeth to determine where they grew up.
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Bioconductor
Expertise:Galaxy, Bioconductor, PostgreSQL, Bioinformatics, Next Generation Sequencing
Hans-Rudolf is a Molecular Biologist turned Bioinformatician who is working in the Computational Biology facility at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel Switzerland. Before, he was leading the Bioinformatics Core group at the Sanger Institute in Cambridge UK.
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Biodiversity
Expertise:Reproducibility, Open data, Data management, Collaboration, Data synthesis, Science communication, Ecology, Biodiversity, Peer review, Research software engineering, Computational biodiversity, Community management
Theoretical & Quantitative Ecology freak. SciComm & Open Science leader. Catalyst of movements.
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Biodiversity informatics
Expertise:Biodiversity informatics
I am a Colombian biologist (she/her) with a background in Plant Community Ecology, Biodiversity Informatics, and Open and Responsible Science. I am a core member of The Turing Way and a SSI/OLS Fellow 2023
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Bioimage analysis
Expertise:Bioimage analysis, Napari, Fiji, Segmentation, Shallow learning, Deep learning, Machine learning, Sustainable coding practices
Undergraduate student studying Computer Science (with an industrial placment) at Newcastle University, currently doing a year long sandwich placement at the Francis Crick institue, situated in the Electron Microscopy STP. Primarily working on different techniques to automate segmentation on 3D electron microscopy data.
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Bioinformatics
Expertise:Galaxy, Bioconductor, PostgreSQL, Bioinformatics, Next Generation Sequencing
Hans-Rudolf is a Molecular Biologist turned Bioinformatician who is working in the Computational Biology facility at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel Switzerland. Before, he was leading the Bioinformatics Core group at the Sanger Institute in Cambridge UK.
Expertise:Metadata; fair principles; post-transcriptional gene regulation; ontologies; project management; data management; bioinformatics; galaxy; github; human genomics; sensitive data sharingMallory is Coordinator for the EMBL-EBI European Genome-phenome Archive supporting archiving and sharing of personally identifiable genetic and phenotypic human data. Her academic background is in bioinformatics specifically to study post-transcriptional gene regulation. She has worked with Open Science projects including the Galaxy Project and the Human Cell Atlas, and is passionate about promoting metadata standards and best practices.
Expertise:Teaching, Devops, Software development, Bioinformatics, Wiki*, Carpentries, Communities, Databases, Reproducible scienceFormer university professor and researcher. IT specialist for R&D in bioinformatics. Wikipedian and open culture enthusiast.
Expertise:Bioinformatics; cheminformatics; drug discovery; network science; machine learning; data science; open scienceI am a young researcher and freelance data scientist, currently pursuing a master’s degree in Systems Biology at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. I have worked in Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics for five years at different laboratories. My current research interests are devoted to Network Science and Machine Learning for drug discovery. I am part of several research, open-science, and software development communities ( ISCBSC, The Carpentries, Streamlit Creators, and Open Life Science. Moreover, I am involved in various initiatives to empower Bioinformatics in Ecuador and Latin America.
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Biomedical science
Expertise:Image analysis, Biomedical science, Imaging, Electron microscopy, Fluorescence microscopy, Correlative light and electron microscopy
I trained as a physicist in atomic physics / quantum information processing (half theory, half experimental). I now work in the Electron Microscopy core facility at the Francis Crick Institute where I develop new hardware and software solutions for various imaging and image analysis bottlenecks. I have a lot of experience working in multidisciplinary teams and in doing so have learned how to communicate across very different communities.
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Biophysics
Role in OLS: Resident Fellow
Expertise:Neuroscience, Microscopy, Imaging, Electrophysiology, Biophysics, Mental health, Journaling, Therapeutic writing facilitation, Life coaching, Career developmentResearcher
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Career development
Role in OLS: Resident Fellow
Expertise:Neuroscience, Microscopy, Imaging, Electrophysiology, Biophysics, Mental health, Journaling, Therapeutic writing facilitation, Life coaching, Career developmentResearcher
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Carpentries
Expertise:Teaching, Devops, Software development, Bioinformatics, Wiki*, Carpentries, Communities, Databases, Reproducible science
Former university professor and researcher. IT specialist for R&D in bioinformatics. Wikipedian and open culture enthusiast.
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Cheminformatics
Expertise:Bioinformatics; cheminformatics; drug discovery; network science; machine learning; data science; open science
I am a young researcher and freelance data scientist, currently pursuing a master’s degree in Systems Biology at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. I have worked in Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics for five years at different laboratories. My current research interests are devoted to Network Science and Machine Learning for drug discovery. I am part of several research, open-science, and software development communities ( ISCBSC, The Carpentries, Streamlit Creators, and Open Life Science. Moreover, I am involved in various initiatives to empower Bioinformatics in Ecuador and Latin America.
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Chromatin
Expertise:Course design, Online training, Course organisation, Community building, Competency frameworks, Molecular biology, Gene expression, Rna, Chromatin
Marta is a scientific project manager within the training team at EMBL-EBI. She organises and facilitates training activities in several European projects and is the product owner of the EMBL-EBI Competency Hub. Marta focuses on providing a great learning experience for participants. She has a background in molecular biology, where her focus was on understanding gene expression. (please, for the other data, take what you already have)
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Chromatin & dna
Expertise:Molecular biology, Genomics, Sequencing, Project management
I’m a molecular neuroscientist with a big interest in all about DNA, biology, data analysis and more importantly…open science and reproducibility! To counteract the screen time, I play with books, yoga, beer and whatever I can research about :)
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Climate science
Expertise:Satellite remote sensing, Oceanography, Climate science, Earth science
Chelle is an advocate for open science, open source software, and inclusivity. As a physical oceanographer focused on remote sensing, she has worked for over 25 years on retrievals of ocean temperature from space and using that data to understand how the ocean impacts our lives.
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Code of conducts
Expertise:Road mapping and strategy planning, Community consultation, Culture change, Code of conducts, Community goals, Drug discovery, Computational biology, Neuroscience.
Arielle has spent her career to date working in research-adjacent fields, starting with a stint at open access publisher PLOS, where she learnt the importance (and challenges) of open science, code, and data. Currently the Research Project Manager on the Tools, Practices & Systems programme at The Alan Turing Institute, she was a CSCCE Community Engagement Fellow in 2019 and continues to be actively involved in the community. She is a contributor to the Turing Way project.
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Collaborating with git & github/gitlab
Expertise:Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with git & github/gitlab, Publishing web content, Wordpress, Jekyll, Github/gitlab pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops
Toby is Director of Curriculum at The Carpentries, a community of practice building global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. Before that, he was a CSCCE CEFP2019 Fellow and community manager for EMBL Bio-IT, a community of bioinformaticians/computational biologists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
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Collaboration
Expertise:Reproducibility, Open data, Data management, Collaboration, Data synthesis, Science communication, Ecology, Biodiversity, Peer review, Research software engineering, Computational biodiversity, Community management
Theoretical & Quantitative Ecology freak. SciComm & Open Science leader. Catalyst of movements.
Role in OLS: Chief of Staff
Expertise:Research data management, Fair data, Collaboration, Library and archiving skills, Open science and communityPatricia 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.
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Communications
Expertise:Communications
aka Laurel! I have experience working as an institutional communicator. Since 2008, I have been in charge of the analysis and planning of comprehensive institutional communication strategies combining digital communication, information systems, and organizations’ voices. I am also a professor at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina.
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Communities
Expertise:Teaching, Devops, Software development, Bioinformatics, Wiki*, Carpentries, Communities, Databases, Reproducible science
Former university professor and researcher. IT specialist for R&D in bioinformatics. Wikipedian and open culture enthusiast.
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Community building
Expertise:Biodiversity informatics
I am a Colombian biologist (she/her) with a background in Plant Community Ecology, Biodiversity Informatics, and Open and Responsible Science. I am a core member of The Turing Way and a SSI/OLS Fellow 2023
Expertise:Open data, Fair data, Open research, Sensitive data, Community building, Open publishing, Phytoliths, Environmental archaeology, PalaeoecologyAll of my research and community building embraces an open scholarship approach in which I strive to develop more open and sustainable research practices across different disciplines.
Expertise:Project management, Digitalization, Community buildingI am an enthusiast for using tech to make processes more efficient and reproducible. Currently, I am the Co-Executive Director of the Digital Research Academy that provides bespoke training in Open Science, Research Software Engineering, and Data Literacy through an international network of expert trainers. Things that make me happy right now are sunshine and spending time with my school-aged kid discovering the world.
Expertise:Community building, Reproducibility, Computational Biology, Regulatory GenomicsCaleb is a 19/20 Mozilla Fellow and a Bioinformatician, interested in teaching, open science, reproducibility, machine learning, FAIR Genomics, and community building.
Expertise:Course design, Online training, Course organisation, Community building, Competency frameworks, Molecular biology, Gene expression, Rna, ChromatinMarta is a scientific project manager within the training team at EMBL-EBI. She organises and facilitates training activities in several European projects and is the product owner of the EMBL-EBI Competency Hub. Marta focuses on providing a great learning experience for participants. She has a background in molecular biology, where her focus was on understanding gene expression. (please, for the other data, take what you already have)
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Community consultation
Expertise:Road mapping and strategy planning, Community consultation, Culture change, Code of conducts, Community goals, Drug discovery, Computational biology, Neuroscience.
Arielle has spent her career to date working in research-adjacent fields, starting with a stint at open access publisher PLOS, where she learnt the importance (and challenges) of open science, code, and data. Currently the Research Project Manager on the Tools, Practices & Systems programme at The Alan Turing Institute, she was a CSCCE Community Engagement Fellow in 2019 and continues to be actively involved in the community. She is a contributor to the Turing Way project.
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Community goals
Expertise:Road mapping and strategy planning, Community consultation, Culture change, Code of conducts, Community goals, Drug discovery, Computational biology, Neuroscience.
Arielle has spent her career to date working in research-adjacent fields, starting with a stint at open access publisher PLOS, where she learnt the importance (and challenges) of open science, code, and data. Currently the Research Project Manager on the Tools, Practices & Systems programme at The Alan Turing Institute, she was a CSCCE Community Engagement Fellow in 2019 and continues to be actively involved in the community. She is a contributor to the Turing Way project.
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Community management
Expertise:Ecology, Health sciences, R, Git and github, Version control, Time series analysis, Research reproducibility, Community management, Ally skills training
Hao is the Reproducibility Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. He is passionate about empowering others, whether through training in open science and reproducible research practices or promoting equity and inclusion by dismantling gatekeeping in academia.
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Community-building
Expertise:Community management, Facilitation, Ethnography, Anthropology, Sociology, Interdisciplinary collaboration, Art, Open science, Event organisation
Anne is a Community Manager based at the Alan Turing Institute, co-organiser of the FOSDEM Open Research Room, and an Artistic Research Fellow with the School of Commons. She’s passionate about interdisciplinary work, and supporting community-led spaces for learning and creativity.
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Competency frameworks
Expertise:Course design, Online training, Course organisation, Community building, Competency frameworks, Molecular biology, Gene expression, Rna, Chromatin
Marta is a scientific project manager within the training team at EMBL-EBI. She organises and facilitates training activities in several European projects and is the product owner of the EMBL-EBI Competency Hub. Marta focuses on providing a great learning experience for participants. She has a background in molecular biology, where her focus was on understanding gene expression. (please, for the other data, take what you already have)
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Complexity science
Expertise:Open science, Reproducible science, Best practices in open & reproducible science, Computational studies, Fair research software, Neuroscience, Complexity science, Information theory, Machine learning, Datascience, Metascience, Psychology, Statistics, Vol
Nadine is a doctoral researcher in computational neuroscience and complex systems where she validates information-theoretic measures of complexity and emergence in both simulated and empirical data. Her work can be described as a solid mixture of mathematics, machine learning, neuroscience, as well as philosophy. She cares about open & reproducible research (and, in this context, good research software) that is aligned with ethical research culture & incentives.
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Computational Biology
Expertise:Community building, Reproducibility, Computational Biology, Regulatory Genomics
Caleb is a 19/20 Mozilla Fellow and a Bioinformatician, interested in teaching, open science, reproducibility, machine learning, FAIR Genomics, and community building.
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Computational biology
Expertise:Road mapping and strategy planning, Community consultation, Culture change, Code of conducts, Community goals, Drug discovery, Computational biology, Neuroscience.
Arielle has spent her career to date working in research-adjacent fields, starting with a stint at open access publisher PLOS, where she learnt the importance (and challenges) of open science, code, and data. Currently the Research Project Manager on the Tools, Practices & Systems programme at The Alan Turing Institute, she was a CSCCE Community Engagement Fellow in 2019 and continues to be actively involved in the community. She is a contributor to the Turing Way project.
Expertise:Bioinformatics; cheminformatics; drug discovery; network science; machine learning; data science; open scienceI am a young researcher and freelance data scientist, currently pursuing a master’s degree in Systems Biology at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. I have worked in Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics for five years at different laboratories. My current research interests are devoted to Network Science and Machine Learning for drug discovery. I am part of several research, open-science, and software development communities ( ISCBSC, The Carpentries, Streamlit Creators, and Open Life Science. Moreover, I am involved in various initiatives to empower Bioinformatics in Ecuador and Latin America.
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Computational studies
Expertise:Open science, Reproducible science, Best practices in open & reproducible science, Computational studies, Fair research software, Neuroscience, Complexity science, Information theory, Machine learning, Datascience, Metascience, Psychology, Statistics, Vol
Nadine is a doctoral researcher in computational neuroscience and complex systems where she validates information-theoretic measures of complexity and emergence in both simulated and empirical data. Her work can be described as a solid mixture of mathematics, machine learning, neuroscience, as well as philosophy. She cares about open & reproducible research (and, in this context, good research software) that is aligned with ethical research culture & incentives.
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Correlative light and electron microscopy
Expertise:Image analysis, Biomedical science, Imaging, Electron microscopy, Fluorescence microscopy, Correlative light and electron microscopy
I trained as a physicist in atomic physics / quantum information processing (half theory, half experimental). I now work in the Electron Microscopy core facility at the Francis Crick Institute where I develop new hardware and software solutions for various imaging and image analysis bottlenecks. I have a lot of experience working in multidisciplinary teams and in doing so have learned how to communicate across very different communities.
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Course design
Expertise:Course design, Online training, Course organisation, Community building, Competency frameworks, Molecular biology, Gene expression, Rna, Chromatin
Marta is a scientific project manager within the training team at EMBL-EBI. She organises and facilitates training activities in several European projects and is the product owner of the EMBL-EBI Competency Hub. Marta focuses on providing a great learning experience for participants. She has a background in molecular biology, where her focus was on understanding gene expression. (please, for the other data, take what you already have)
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Course organisation
Expertise:Course design, Online training, Course organisation, Community building, Competency frameworks, Molecular biology, Gene expression, Rna, Chromatin
Marta is a scientific project manager within the training team at EMBL-EBI. She organises and facilitates training activities in several European projects and is the product owner of the EMBL-EBI Competency Hub. Marta focuses on providing a great learning experience for participants. She has a background in molecular biology, where her focus was on understanding gene expression. (please, for the other data, take what you already have)
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Culture change
Expertise:Road mapping and strategy planning, Community consultation, Culture change, Code of conducts, Community goals, Drug discovery, Computational biology, Neuroscience.
Arielle has spent her career to date working in research-adjacent fields, starting with a stint at open access publisher PLOS, where she learnt the importance (and challenges) of open science, code, and data. Currently the Research Project Manager on the Tools, Practices & Systems programme at The Alan Turing Institute, she was a CSCCE Community Engagement Fellow in 2019 and continues to be actively involved in the community. She is a contributor to the Turing Way project.
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Data integration
Expertise:Fair, Knowledge graphs, Terminologies, Bio(medical) ontologies, Data modeling, Data integration
Deepak works as a Scientific Coordinator for the Swiss Personalized Health Network at SIB. He is highly passionate about being part of projects that are interdisciplinary in nature, and work on building tools and infrastructures that can serve the wider life sciences community.
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Data management
Expertise:Reproducibility, Open data, Data management, Collaboration, Data synthesis, Science communication, Ecology, Biodiversity, Peer review, Research software engineering, Computational biodiversity, Community management
Theoretical & Quantitative Ecology freak. SciComm & Open Science leader. Catalyst of movements.
Role in OLS: NASA Cohort Coordinator (contract)
Expertise:Fair, Open data, Data management, Agrobiodiversity, Sustainability, Transdisciplinary researchI 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
Expertise:Project management, Open source, Open data, Open science, Data management, Project communications, Giving presentations, Writing documentation, Working with a distributed team, NeuroscienceLilly works on open source software for open science as the product manager for the Frictionless Data for Reproducible Research project at Open Knowledge Foundation. Lilly has her PhD in neuroscience from Oregon Health and Science University, where she researched brain injury in fruit flies and became an advocate for open science and open data.
Expertise:Metadata; fair principles; post-transcriptional gene regulation; ontologies; project management; data management; bioinformatics; galaxy; github; human genomics; sensitive data sharingMallory is Coordinator for the EMBL-EBI European Genome-phenome Archive supporting archiving and sharing of personally identifiable genetic and phenotypic human data. Her academic background is in bioinformatics specifically to study post-transcriptional gene regulation. She has worked with Open Science projects including the Galaxy Project and the Human Cell Atlas, and is passionate about promoting metadata standards and best practices.
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Data modeling
Expertise:Fair, Knowledge graphs, Terminologies, Bio(medical) ontologies, Data modeling, Data integration
Deepak works as a Scientific Coordinator for the Swiss Personalized Health Network at SIB. He is highly passionate about being part of projects that are interdisciplinary in nature, and work on building tools and infrastructures that can serve the wider life sciences community.
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Data science
Expertise:Bioinformatics; cheminformatics; drug discovery; network science; machine learning; data science; open science
I am a young researcher and freelance data scientist, currently pursuing a master’s degree in Systems Biology at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. I have worked in Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics for five years at different laboratories. My current research interests are devoted to Network Science and Machine Learning for drug discovery. I am part of several research, open-science, and software development communities ( ISCBSC, The Carpentries, Streamlit Creators, and Open Life Science. Moreover, I am involved in various initiatives to empower Bioinformatics in Ecuador and Latin America.
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Data synthesis
Expertise:Reproducibility, Open data, Data management, Collaboration, Data synthesis, Science communication, Ecology, Biodiversity, Peer review, Research software engineering, Computational biodiversity, Community management
Theoretical & Quantitative Ecology freak. SciComm & Open Science leader. Catalyst of movements.
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Databases
Expertise:Teaching, Devops, Software development, Bioinformatics, Wiki*, Carpentries, Communities, Databases, Reproducible science
Former university professor and researcher. IT specialist for R&D in bioinformatics. Wikipedian and open culture enthusiast.
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Datascience
Expertise:Open science, Reproducible science, Best practices in open & reproducible science, Computational studies, Fair research software, Neuroscience, Complexity science, Information theory, Machine learning, Datascience, Metascience, Psychology, Statistics, Vol
Nadine is a doctoral researcher in computational neuroscience and complex systems where she validates information-theoretic measures of complexity and emergence in both simulated and empirical data. Her work can be described as a solid mixture of mathematics, machine learning, neuroscience, as well as philosophy. She cares about open & reproducible research (and, in this context, good research software) that is aligned with ethical research culture & incentives.
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Deep learning
Expertise:Bioimage analysis, Napari, Fiji, Segmentation, Shallow learning, Deep learning, Machine learning, Sustainable coding practices
Undergraduate student studying Computer Science (with an industrial placment) at Newcastle University, currently doing a year long sandwich placement at the Francis Crick institue, situated in the Electron Microscopy STP. Primarily working on different techniques to automate segmentation on 3D electron microscopy data.
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Designing and developing training material
Expertise:Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with git & github/gitlab, Publishing web content, Wordpress, Jekyll, Github/gitlab pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops
Toby is Director of Curriculum at The Carpentries, a community of practice building global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. Before that, he was a CSCCE CEFP2019 Fellow and community manager for EMBL Bio-IT, a community of bioinformaticians/computational biologists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
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Devops
Expertise:Teaching, Devops, Software development, Bioinformatics, Wiki*, Carpentries, Communities, Databases, Reproducible science
Former university professor and researcher. IT specialist for R&D in bioinformatics. Wikipedian and open culture enthusiast.
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Digital health
Expertise:Project management, Digitalization, Community building
I am an enthusiast for using tech to make processes more efficient and reproducible. Currently, I am the Co-Executive Director of the Digital Research Academy that provides bespoke training in Open Science, Research Software Engineering, and Data Literacy through an international network of expert trainers. Things that make me happy right now are sunshine and spending time with my school-aged kid discovering the world.
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Digital medicine
Expertise:Project management, Digitalization, Community building
I am an enthusiast for using tech to make processes more efficient and reproducible. Currently, I am the Co-Executive Director of the Digital Research Academy that provides bespoke training in Open Science, Research Software Engineering, and Data Literacy through an international network of expert trainers. Things that make me happy right now are sunshine and spending time with my school-aged kid discovering the world.
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Digital scholarship
Expertise:Research data management, Digital scholarship, Libraries, Open research, Open data, Open scholarship, Open science, Research software engineering practice, Neurodiversity, Glam
Jez is Data Services Lead in The British Library’s Research Infrastructure Services team. He has over 10 years of experience developing and delivering research data management services and strategies at research-intensive higher education institutions in the UK, as part of a long-term goal to help communicate and collaborate more effectively using technology. He is an experienced teacher and is involved with The Carpentries as a Certified Instructor and early contributor to Library Carpentry. He is particularly interested in elevating the status of research software alongside research data in the scholarly record, and helping researchers develop the skills to make the most of this. He is a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, 2020 intake.
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Digital social science
Expertise:Community management, Facilitation, Ethnography, Anthropology, Sociology, Interdisciplinary collaboration, Art, Open science, Event organisation
Anne is a Community Manager based at the Alan Turing Institute, co-organiser of the FOSDEM Open Research Room, and an Artistic Research Fellow with the School of Commons. She’s passionate about interdisciplinary work, and supporting community-led spaces for learning and creativity.
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Discrimination
Expertise:Human rights, Critical data studies, Ethical, Responsible uses of data, Ai, Gender, Sogiesc inclusion, Non-discrimination
Laura is a human rights and non-discrimination expert researching the societal impact of data, technology and AI. She is currently a Tech Policy Fellow at UC Berkeley.
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Diversity
Expertise:Astrochemistry, Diversity, Inclusion & equity, Information literacy, Mentoring, Education, Training
I am an incoming assistant professor at The University of Amsterdam, working in the field of astrochemistry/astrobiology. I love to teach and my work motto is doing fun stuff with nice people. I talk a lot and cannot properly function without coffee :)
Expertise:Biodiversity informaticsI am a Colombian biologist (she/her) with a background in Plant Community Ecology, Biodiversity Informatics, and Open and Responsible Science. I am a core member of The Turing Way and a SSI/OLS Fellow 2023
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Drug discovery
Expertise:Road mapping and strategy planning, Community consultation, Culture change, Code of conducts, Community goals, Drug discovery, Computational biology, Neuroscience.
Arielle has spent her career to date working in research-adjacent fields, starting with a stint at open access publisher PLOS, where she learnt the importance (and challenges) of open science, code, and data. Currently the Research Project Manager on the Tools, Practices & Systems programme at The Alan Turing Institute, she was a CSCCE Community Engagement Fellow in 2019 and continues to be actively involved in the community. She is a contributor to the Turing Way project.
Expertise:Bioinformatics; cheminformatics; drug discovery; network science; machine learning; data science; open scienceI am a young researcher and freelance data scientist, currently pursuing a master’s degree in Systems Biology at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. I have worked in Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics for five years at different laboratories. My current research interests are devoted to Network Science and Machine Learning for drug discovery. I am part of several research, open-science, and software development communities ( ISCBSC, The Carpentries, Streamlit Creators, and Open Life Science. Moreover, I am involved in various initiatives to empower Bioinformatics in Ecuador and Latin America.
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Earth science
Expertise:Satellite remote sensing, Oceanography, Climate science, Earth science
Chelle is an advocate for open science, open source software, and inclusivity. As a physical oceanographer focused on remote sensing, she has worked for over 25 years on retrievals of ocean temperature from space and using that data to understand how the ocean impacts our lives.
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Ecology
Expertise:Reproducibility, Open data, Data management, Collaboration, Data synthesis, Science communication, Ecology, Biodiversity, Peer review, Research software engineering, Computational biodiversity, Community management
Theoretical & Quantitative Ecology freak. SciComm & Open Science leader. Catalyst of movements.
Expertise:Ecology, Health sciences, R, Git and github, Version control, Time series analysis, Research reproducibility, Community management, Ally skills trainingHao is the Reproducibility Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. He is passionate about empowering others, whether through training in open science and reproducible research practices or promoting equity and inclusion by dismantling gatekeeping in academia.
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Education
Expertise:Astrochemistry, Diversity, Inclusion & equity, Information literacy, Mentoring, Education, Training
I am an incoming assistant professor at The University of Amsterdam, working in the field of astrochemistry/astrobiology. I love to teach and my work motto is doing fun stuff with nice people. I talk a lot and cannot properly function without coffee :)
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Electron microscopy
Expertise:Image analysis, Biomedical science, Imaging, Electron microscopy, Fluorescence microscopy, Correlative light and electron microscopy
I trained as a physicist in atomic physics / quantum information processing (half theory, half experimental). I now work in the Electron Microscopy core facility at the Francis Crick Institute where I develop new hardware and software solutions for various imaging and image analysis bottlenecks. I have a lot of experience working in multidisciplinary teams and in doing so have learned how to communicate across very different communities.
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Electrophysiology
Role in OLS: Resident Fellow
Expertise:Neuroscience, Microscopy, Imaging, Electrophysiology, Biophysics, Mental health, Journaling, Therapeutic writing facilitation, Life coaching, Career developmentResearcher
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Environmental archaeology
Expertise:Open data, Fair data, Open research, Sensitive data, Community building, Open publishing, Phytoliths, Environmental archaeology, Palaeoecology
All of my research and community building embraces an open scholarship approach in which I strive to develop more open and sustainable research practices across different disciplines.
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Equity
Expertise:Biodiversity informatics
I am a Colombian biologist (she/her) with a background in Plant Community Ecology, Biodiversity Informatics, and Open and Responsible Science. I am a core member of The Turing Way and a SSI/OLS Fellow 2023
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Ethnography
Expertise:Community management, Facilitation, Ethnography, Anthropology, Sociology, Interdisciplinary collaboration, Art, Open science, Event organisation
Anne is a Community Manager based at the Alan Turing Institute, co-organiser of the FOSDEM Open Research Room, and an Artistic Research Fellow with the School of Commons. She’s passionate about interdisciplinary work, and supporting community-led spaces for learning and creativity.
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FAIR
Expertise:Open protocols, Open data, Research data management, FAIR, Archaeology, Bioanthropology, Isotopes, Osteology, Open science
Esther works as a Data Steward at Delft University of Technology (Faculty of Applied Sciences) in the Netherlands. As a Data Steward she supports researchers with their data/code management and with sharing their research. Before this, Esther did a PhD in bioanthropology, studying the isotopic composition of human teeth to determine where they grew up.
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Fair
Expertise:Fair, Knowledge graphs, Terminologies, Bio(medical) ontologies, Data modeling, Data integration
Deepak works as a Scientific Coordinator for the Swiss Personalized Health Network at SIB. He is highly passionate about being part of projects that are interdisciplinary in nature, and work on building tools and infrastructures that can serve the wider life sciences community.
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Fair data
Expertise:Open data, Fair data, Open research, Sensitive data, Community building, Open publishing, Phytoliths, Environmental archaeology, Palaeoecology
All of my research and community building embraces an open scholarship approach in which I strive to develop more open and sustainable research practices across different disciplines.
Role in OLS: Chief of Staff
Expertise:Research data management, Fair data, Collaboration, Library and archiving skills, Open science and communityPatricia 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.
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Fair principles
Expertise:Metadata; fair principles; post-transcriptional gene regulation; ontologies; project management; data management; bioinformatics; galaxy; github; human genomics; sensitive data sharing
Mallory is Coordinator for the EMBL-EBI European Genome-phenome Archive supporting archiving and sharing of personally identifiable genetic and phenotypic human data. Her academic background is in bioinformatics specifically to study post-transcriptional gene regulation. She has worked with Open Science projects including the Galaxy Project and the Human Cell Atlas, and is passionate about promoting metadata standards and best practices.
Expertise:Research data management, Open science, Fair principles, Inclusion & equityI’m a strong advocate for equity and inclusion of individuals from marginalized groups in STEM fields. I’m also a passionate community builder and research data manager specialized in metadata and curation with a passion for OpenScience and all things FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperably, Resuable).
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Fair research software
Expertise:Open science, Reproducible science, Best practices in open & reproducible science, Computational studies, Fair research software, Neuroscience, Complexity science, Information theory, Machine learning, Datascience, Metascience, Psychology, Statistics, Vol
Nadine is a doctoral researcher in computational neuroscience and complex systems where she validates information-theoretic measures of complexity and emergence in both simulated and empirical data. Her work can be described as a solid mixture of mathematics, machine learning, neuroscience, as well as philosophy. She cares about open & reproducible research (and, in this context, good research software) that is aligned with ethical research culture & incentives.
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Feminism
Expertise:Human rights, Critical data studies, Ethical, Responsible uses of data, Ai, Gender, Sogiesc inclusion, Non-discrimination
Laura is a human rights and non-discrimination expert researching the societal impact of data, technology and AI. She is currently a Tech Policy Fellow at UC Berkeley.
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Fieldwork
Expertise:Community management, Rdm, Open science
I am Community Manager RDM and Open Science at VU Amsterdam. My background is in theoretical linguistics. My goal is to help colleagues connect and learn from each other and with each other
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Fiji
Expertise:Bioimage analysis, Napari, Fiji, Segmentation, Shallow learning, Deep learning, Machine learning, Sustainable coding practices
Undergraduate student studying Computer Science (with an industrial placment) at Newcastle University, currently doing a year long sandwich placement at the Francis Crick institue, situated in the Electron Microscopy STP. Primarily working on different techniques to automate segmentation on 3D electron microscopy data.
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Fluorescence microscopy
Expertise:Image analysis, Biomedical science, Imaging, Electron microscopy, Fluorescence microscopy, Correlative light and electron microscopy
I trained as a physicist in atomic physics / quantum information processing (half theory, half experimental). I now work in the Electron Microscopy core facility at the Francis Crick Institute where I develop new hardware and software solutions for various imaging and image analysis bottlenecks. I have a lot of experience working in multidisciplinary teams and in doing so have learned how to communicate across very different communities.
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Galaxy
Expertise:Galaxy, Bioconductor, PostgreSQL, Bioinformatics, Next Generation Sequencing
Hans-Rudolf is a Molecular Biologist turned Bioinformatician who is working in the Computational Biology facility at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel Switzerland. Before, he was leading the Bioinformatics Core group at the Sanger Institute in Cambridge UK.