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Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
I am a civil engineer with a drive to impact the knowledge sharing through open science.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
I’m the primary Software Engineer at the DAMP Lab at Boston University, focusing mostly on integration of robotic systems and biological design tools. I enjoy dogs, beer, and fantasy novels.
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead / OLS-8 mentor
Graduated on Library Science with work experience in academic libraries and technology. MetaDocencia´s Infrastructure team coordinator. OLS-7 Mentee. Certified instructor by The Carpentries.
Role in OLS: OLS-1 expert / OLS-2 expert
Athina is a neuroscientist, with a background in electrical and computer engineering. Her research combines computational and electrophysiological techniques to study human cognition.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
Abdul founded two chapters of PyData in Saudi Arabia with a mission to support and grow the community of open source developers in the middle east. He is passionate about enhancing computer science education around the world and especially in the Arabic speaking communities.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
Abraham is an ecological researcher based at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He is interested in how climate, fire, and large mammal herbivores shape grassland and savanna ecosystems in space and time. This knowledge is valuable for assessing current ecological theory, guiding successful ecosystem conservation and restoration, and understanding roles of humans in ecosystems.
Role in OLS: OLS-4 mentor
Working on insect genomics/bioinformatics platforms, and regular contributor to the Galaxy-Conda-GMOD-GTN exosystem
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA mentor
Alexia Cardona is an experienced Training Lead in the fields of Data Science, Data Management and Bioinformatics. She is a leader in the ELIXIR international community, where together with the other leaders and partners drives the establishment of high-quality training for the Life Science Researchers. In ELIXIR she is a co-chair for the Learning Paths focus group and the Training Platform Coordinator for ELIXIR-UK.
Role in OLS: OLS-4 project lead / OLS-5 mentor / OLS-9-DRA mentor
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Alan Turing Institute. PhD in Physical Geography, passionate on the development of data-driven approaches and the automation of complex and large data tasks to tackle environmental changes using satellite imagery and geospatial data. Enjoy reading sci-fi books, cycling and coffee roasting.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 expert
I am a freelance science writer and communications trainer, focused on life science communications. I am currently spreading the word about the importance and mystery of microbes living in the Ocean.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Adekola is interested in Turbomachinery (Air-Breathing engines) with a specialty in Fans and Compressors. Currently he is pursuing his PhD in Mechanical Engineering in University of Windsor working on Boundary Layer Ingestion (BLI), basically trying to improve the efficiency of FANS due to BLI inlet distortion. Adekola is a good team player with great interpersonal skill. Aside from working in Academia as a research assistant prior to now. Adekola has industrial experience both in Manufacturing and in Oil and Gas.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Adnan is a PhD student at the University of Calgary and Vector Institute, Canada, working under the supervision of Dr. Yani Ioannou and Dr. Rahul Krishnan. His current research interests include efficient ML, understanding loss landscape on DNNs and sparse training.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-CATALYST project lead
I am a bioinformatics fellow at Pwani University, an open science enthusiast, genomics researcher. I love sharing knowledge and collaborating with other scientists to grow and discover new innovations.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
Self-motivated, Dedicated, Focused
Role in OLS: OLS-2 expert
Alejandra is the Software Engineering Group Leader at the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). STFC is part of UK Research and Innovation. Her focus is around software management, which includes supporting the software developmnt process, and data management projects, which include the development of bespoke software systems to manage the experimental data produced by the large scale scientific facilities at STFC. Before joining STFC she was a Research Lecturer at the University of Oxford. Her research interests are around developing models, methods, and software tools for data science and innovative scholarly communication with the aim of enabling Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) data, research reproducibility and aggregation of research results.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
Innovative, problems solver, community builder and team player, I hold two masters degrees in computer sciences and information systems. I am interested in contributing to solve community issues using ICT including cutting edge technologies such as ML, AI, and IoT.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Ahlam is a Ph.D. student in Rehabilitation Sciences at McGill University (Canada). Her work focuses on child development and mobility, and she is interested in the application of statistical procedures and software in medical research.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-CATALYST project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
I am a Research Application Manager at The Alan Turing Institute. It’s a new role and one we hope to use to demonstrate how by creating deeper connections between research teams and external stakeholders, the impact of the overall Programme can be significantly improved.
Role in OLS: OLS-1 mentor, expert / OLS-2 mentor, expert / OLS-3 expert
PhD with twenty years working around bioinformatics research, project-management, and training. Currently working as a leadership trainer for postdocs and PIs. For fun I enjoy painting, playing Dungeons and Dragons, and walking my dog.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
I am a biological anthropologist and master’s candidate. My research in McGill University’s Departments of Anthropology and Human Genetics explores population genetics and bioanthropological questions about human health and local adaptations. I’ve previously presented and published research reconstructing historical kelp forest ecosystem populations off the coast of Vancouver Island, Canada. This project was completed in partnership with the Tseshaht First Nation, Parks Canada, the University of Victoria’s Historical Ecology and Coastal Archaeology laboratory, and the Bamfield Marine Science Centre.
Role in OLS: OLS-7 mentor
I am a Community Manager for eLife, a nonprofit committed to transforming research communication in part through improvements to research culture. As part of my role, I am responsible for creating and managing programmes and advisory groups to ensure that eLife’s work is driven by its global community, including its early-career researcher community. I am a keen advocate for open science and works to promote equity, diversity and inclusion in research. I am also a former researcher (immunology/virology), I earned a PhD in Immunology from the University New South Wales, Australia, after graduating from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and did a short post-doc before making the switch to eLife.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Ajitesh is a 4th year BCIS Student and a Research Assistant at Okanagan College. He is a tech enthusiast who enjoys learning about innovations and technologies and is passionate about software engineering, cyber security, and algorithms. He is also the Vice Chair of the Okanagan College IEEE Student Branch, and is involved in organizing various IEEE workshops and conferences.
Role in OLS: OLS-1 mentor, expert / OLS-2 mentor, expert / OLS-4 expert
I am an Experimental Psychologist and Fellow of the SSI at the University of Manchester interested in data visualisations, open science, and reproducible research. I am the University of Manchester Open and Reproducible Research Institutional Lead.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
I am a first-year PhD student at the Inorganic Systems Engineering group of TU Delft. In collaboration with an industry partner, I do research in data-driven catalyst discovery.
Role in OLS: OLS-6 project lead
I am a Research Application Manager at the Alan Turing Institute. I work with project teams to adapt research outputs for real-world problem solving.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead / OLS-6 mentor, expert
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 :)
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead / OLS-6 mentor, expert / OLS-9-DRA mentor
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.
Leader and learner in open science education and open-source development. For 13+ years, Alejandro has contributed to the knowledge co-creation of open environmental science and delivered research with multidisciplinary and diverse teams. Active member of the Turing Way and Pangeo communities, and a topic editor of the Journal of Open Source Education.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-CATALYST project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Alette Schoon teaches documentary filmmaking at the School of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University in Makhanda, South Africa. Before entering academia she worked in educational television. Alette has a PhD in digital media studies and is the organiser of the African DigiMethods conference that aims to share digital and computational research methods and tools with African Media Studies researchers. Alette has published various book chapters and journal articles on digital media in South Africa. Alette enjoys mountain biking and is known among her cycling group as the “downhill queen”.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Graduate student at uOttawa working on machine learning for rare disease screening. Mental health advocate and avid outdoors lover.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA mentor
Alexandra is the Senior Research Community Manager for BridgeAI, where she leads initiatives to drive AI adoption in diverse sectors like agriculture and creative industries. She brings experience from her previous leadership in the creative sector, managing impactful projects, and supporting SME growth. Passionate about community-building, Alexandra thrives in roles that empower innovation and professional development in AI and data science.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 expert / OLS-4 mentor, expert / OLS-5 expert
I am working as a Scientific Training Officer at EMBL-EBI and dedicate my work time to developing and designing training in the field of biomedical sciences and bioinformatics. In our training courses we encourage scientists to work according to and advocate the principles of Open Science. I am not a bioinformatician myself, but a chemist / biochemist by education, with several years of experience in scientific research; mainly in the wet lab.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 expert / OLS-3 expert / OLS-4 expert / OLS-5 expert / OLS-8 expert
Role in OLS: OLS-9-CATALYST project lead
I am a professor and reasearcher at FCQ-UNC, with research interest in the field of compuational medicinal chemistry aimed to drug discovery and development capaigns.
Role in OLS: OLS-6 expert
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.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead / OLS-4 project lead
I am 23 years old and currently working at a sports media company as an editor. I graduated in October 2020 from UCL in MSc Digital Humanities, with a year of experience in journalism. I also have a previous background in history, and I am about to embark on a postgraduate diploma in law, with hopes of pursuing a career at the intersection of law and technology. Also, I’m very keen to help address educational inequity as well as learning more about community building and the open science community!
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Alix Shield is a settler scholar and lecturer in the Department of Indigenous Studies at Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, BC, Canada). Alix completed her PhD in English at SFU in 2020; her dissertation combines elements of Indigenous Literatures, Canadian Literatures, and the digital humanities to analyze the publishing contexts of two key twentieth-century works of Indigenous women’s writing in Canada. Her dissertation, Kwaskastahsowin (“Put things to right”): Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Indigenous Women’s Writing, Editing, and Publishing in Canada, investigates the ways in which Canadian publishing has marginalized Indigenous women’s writing and literary agency using two case studie
Role in OLS: OLS-9-CATALYST project lead
An experienced researcher and lecturer in the fields of genetics, molecular biology, genomics, and bioinformatics, with a passion for human health and a commitment to helping others.
Role in OLS: OLS-6 project lead / OLS-9-DRA mentor
I’m a research software engineer at The University of Manchester and an SSI fellow. I am passionate about open science and regularly deliver training workshops. My research interests include software sustainability, open-source software and community building.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Hi I’m Amber, I am passionate about both human as animal health. Science should be open and accessible for everyone, contributing to a planet full of knowledge, innovations and solutions!
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Hello! My name is Amelia and I am super passionate about microbiology! I am doing my PhD in environmental microbiology where I am investigating the role endospores play in the spread of ARGs. My favorite thing to do in my free time is hike in the mountains with my friends!
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
I am a doctoral candidate in Chemical and Materials Engineering at Concordia University, focused on developing lithium-sulfur battery cathodes. My research combines experimental and computational methods to design novel materials for improving the cathode interface, utilizing computational chemistry and artificial intelligence.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
I am a PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia studying the evolution of invasive species, particularly the role of hybridization in the invasion process. I am also very passionate about EDIA in the realm of teaching, specifically in biology, and hope to bring that expertise to my project.
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead
I recently obtained a Ph.D. in Education from the Faculty Education and Psychology at ELTE University, Hungary. I am interested in open science, as well as international and comparative higher education.
Role in OLS: OLS-1 project lead / OLS-4 expert
I am a dentist who is passionate in immunology and genomic research. Our group in Thailand is working to expand our research capacity by introducing the single-cell transcriptomics to researchers of different fields. I enjoy bridging people from different expertise and encourage openness and collaboration.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA mentor
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-6 mentor, expert / OLS-7 mentor
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
Role in OLS: OLS-4 project lead
My research interests lie in the fields of personalised medicine, optimisation, and data science, and how all these can be used together to improve the availability of targeted treatments at a global scale. I have an MSc in Data Science and have previously worked on various research problems from within the fields of social sciences, law, computer science, and operations research.
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-2 mentor / OLS-3 mentor / OLS-6 project lead
Anelda is the founder of Talarify, a South Africa-based consultancy working with researchers and postgraduates to help grow digital, computational, and open science literacy. She has a formal background in bioinformatics, but spend most of her time working in interdisciplinary teams these days. Main projects currently: 1) afrimapr, funded by Wellcome Open Research, where the team is working with data science communities in Africa and beyond to help make African data more accessible via the development of R building blocks; and 2) ESCALATOR - growing an inclusive and active community of practice in Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences in South Africa.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Anemily Machina is a PhD Candidate in Computer Science at Western University. Her research focuses on explaining how AIs in the Natural Language Processing domain make decisions. AIs are increasingly being integrated into everyday society, but the average person has little to no say in how these AIs are trained or used. Anemily believes that people deserve high quality and understandable explanations for any AI decision that affects their life.
Role in OLS: OLS-1 expert / OLS-2 expert / OLS-3 expert
Software Sustainability Institute’s training lead. Over the past 5 years committed to ongoing improvement of research software practice through training and community engagement work. Driving the trends in training for researchers and scientists in computational and data analysis skills forward and helping develop new training curricula.
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead / OLS-8 expert
Data manager in a national research infrastructure for the social sciences, PhDone in Sociology, mostly knitting in my free time
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Hi! I have a traditional biology background in molecular and cellular biology, obtained at the University of Toronto, where I also did my MSc in the Dept. of Cell and Systems Biology. I wanted to explore more translational science, which led me to the University of Guelph where I am currently pursuing my PhD. My research is looking to investigate the microbiome of maize, and is heavily bioinformatics focused.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 mentor, expert
Anita Bröllochs is the Head of Outreach at protocols.io. She studied Life Science Engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen, Germany and her background is on optical clearing of skeletal muscle for multiphoton microscopy. Anita has a passion for open science and is also the host of a science podcast called ‘Minor Tweak, Major Impact’ which is aiming to shine a spotlight on method development.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 mentor
Anjali is the Thematic Lead on AI, Justice and Human Rights at the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (UK), including projects on data science/AI to combat modern slavery and other exploitative crimes (and co-organiser of Code 8.7), statistics and the law, and bias measures/fairness methods in algorithms in justice. She is also an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Statistics & Data Science and faculty affiliate in the Block Centre for Technology and Society at Carnegie Mellon University.
Role in OLS: OLS-1 expert / OLS-3 mentor, expert
Anna is a Research Software Engineer (RSE) at the University of Sheffield with a background in Marine Macroecology and research software development in R. She is part of a team of RSEs working to help researchers build more robust analysis pipelines and software, promote best practice in research programming and digital resource management and facilitate the shift to more open, transparent and collaborative research culture. She is also an editor for rOpenSci, a 2019 Software Sustainability Institute Fellow and a member of the ReproHack core team. Overall, her passion lies in helping researchers and the research community as a whole make better use of the real workhorses of research, code and data, and in spreading the word about the joys of R.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
I am driven to engage with communities to foster an appreciation and connection for both intangible and tangible culture. Growing up in a small town, I learned what a gift it is to connect with people from another way of life; OLS makes that possible.
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead
I’m a chronobiology and sleep reasearcher with a passion for outdoor light and sports. I mainly focus on applied field studies which includes interventions and evaluation studies. I encourage open and reproducible science practices and work towards more sustainability also in research.
Role in OLS: OLS-1 expert
Anne currently works at Oswald Cruz foundation with the development of a bottom up open data policy. She is also part of a research group dedicated to open science themes, especially social innovations.
Role in OLS: OLS-4 mentor, expert / OLS-5 mentor
Anne is an experienced Research Software Engineer. She is developing training materials and teaching basic-to-advanced research computing skills to students, researchers, Research Software Engineers from all disciplines to advance FAIRness of Software management and development practices so that research groups can collaboratively develop, review, discuss, test, share and reuse their codes.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 mentor, expert / OLS-6 mentor
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.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
Currently a biochemistry student and very much interested in the field of data science and bioinformatics. Very keen to meet amazing people of same interest.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
I am a bioinformatician, with background in molecular/cell biology, working in the Bioinformatics Unit at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), Oeiras, Portugal.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-9-CATALYST project lead
I am a biologist in public policy, who believes that science is the key to transcend any geografical or cultural barrier. Building bioimaging community and capacities in latina america to create an environment for innovation to drive science forward.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Arash Asgari is an AI researcher with extensive academic and professional experience in large-scale training, prompt-tuning, and deployment of large language models (LLMs). His research interests span AI fairness, multi-modality of LLMs(MLLMs), and AI applications in medical imaging. Currently, Arash is pursuing an MSc in AI at York University, Canada, where he is a member of the Responsible AI Lab. He also holds an MSc in computer engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, and graduated at the top of his cohort with a BSc in computer engineering from K.N. Toosi University of Technology. His work has earned him prestigious research awards from the Vector Institute and the Digi
Role in OLS: OLS-4 project lead
I am a nanobiologist doing a PhD in volume electron microscopy. I like microscopy, cell biology and data science. My hobbies are guitar playing, music, swimming and reading.
Role in OLS: OLS-6 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead / OLS-9-DRA mentor
I am a neuroscience researcher. I investigate how the human brain creates meaning through language and music, and through audition and vision. For my research, I use neuroimaging techniques such as Magnetoencephalography or functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. I am passionate about science outreach and SciArt, and I am interested in facilitating connections between scientists and artists. I am the current director of the Imagine Science Symbiosis Initiative and a Resident Scholar at the SAi Resident Collective. I love growing plants, (citi-)biking around NYC, and discovering new cafes.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 mentor, expert / OLS-3 expert / OLS-4 mentor, expert / OLS-5 mentor / OLS-6 mentor, expert / OLS-7 mentor / OLS-8 mentor / OLS-9-DRA mentor
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.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
A student and innovator from rural India.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
I’m a junior student pursuing a Bachelors’s in Computer science studies. I am a Data Science and machine learning enthusiast. I like to travel , read, dance and listen to taylor’s music:)
Role in OLS: OLS-4 project lead
From age seven, Caitlin knew she was going to be a scientist. A trained researcher, she’s held roles in product, people, and program management at a number of technology organizations. A lifelong volunteer, she’s engaged with Central Florida’s nonprofit community and the organizer of the Orlando Lady Developers Meetup. Caitlin holds a BSIE and a PhD from the University of Miami.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
I am a Training Officer at the Alan Turing Institute and a digital history researcher at the New College of the Humanities. I’m interested in historical mythmaking and misinformation.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
Hi - I’m Ayesha and I’m interested in pedagogy and education; community building and forming meaningful connections; and personal development and growth. I also love cycling - (on-the-road, semi-competitive, all-the-gear-no-idea kind of cycling), good food and a gripping crime drama series!
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead / OLS-9-CATALYST project lead
Ayomide is a Medical Laboratory Scientist working in the department of Medical Laboratory Science of Lead City University, Ibadan, Nigeria. He holds a Bachelor of Medical Laboratory Science Degree from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
For fun: I am very into catch and release fly-fishing and fly tying as well as other outdoor activities. I also do a number of crafts at varying degrees of success! Academically: I am nearing submission of my joint Ph.D. between North West University and Oslo University. I research sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPS) in the context of barriers to trade in the South African red-meat industry with particular focus on the past and ongoing challenges that have arisen with the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the country. I have followed a mixed methodology approach which includes qualitative research by means of semi structured interviews and quantitative research by means of a content analysis entirely applied through R programming. I am Zimbabwean born, but call Johannesburg (South Africa) home at the moment.
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead / OLS-6 project lead
Umar Ahmad is currently the Head, Department of Anatomy at Bauchi State University, Nigeria. He is also a founder and CEO of BioSeq, a bioinformatics company that translates omics data into informative knowledge by providing quality high-throughput sequencing (NGS) data analysis. His work in basic and translational research is focused on developing targeted therapy for human bladder cancer, colon and lung cancers with primary focus on genomics (WGS, WES) and transcriptomics (RNA-Seq, scRNA-Seq, Microarray) data integration to investigate the regulatory pathways that drive tumour recurrence and progression. Additionally, Umar works in an international team of scholarly professionals at AfricArXiv - the pan-African Open Access portal – towards increased discoverability of African research output. His role involves facilitating manuscript submission moderation and quality assurance as well as representing AfricArXiv at international meetings, events and webinars. At the Science Communication Hub Nigeria, he supports a team that provides mentorship, implements training and community building for the next generation of Nigerian scientists. Umar is a fellow of Accelerating Science and Publication in Biology (ASAPbio), a mentee and a member in The Carpentries community and a member of Open Bioinformatics Foundation. He is also the current Regional Coordinator (North East) of the Nigerian Bioinformatics and Genomics Network (NBGN). Moreover, Umar maintains a community of scientists who are passionate about bioinformatics in a slack workspace called Bioinformatics Hub to facilitate sharing of bioinformatics knowledge in Nigeria. (Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14ayo1wHRpDvF-L5yHaBHyEqXW29EqEApfCtf3F3xiq4/edit?usp=sharing)
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead / OLS-4 project lead / OLS-5 mentor / OLS-6 mentor, expert / OLS-7 mentor
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
Role in OLS: OLS-8 mentor
I am a PhD student in bioarchaeology focusing on the applicability of dental calculus in paleodiet research . I am also a data steward and an advocate for Open Science.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 expert / OLS-3 mentor, expert / OLS-4 mentor, expert
I’m a research consultant and social scientist and I support researchers in developing mixed methods and qualitative research skills. I also run a peer support group called Open Post Academics (OPA) where we encourage those with a PhD to share their skills and knowledge outside of the academy.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead / OLS-3 expert / OLS-5 mentor / OLS-7 project lead / OLS-9-DRA mentor
Scientific Project Manager working in the project AI4Life (https://ai4life.eurobioimaging.eu/) with strong interest in outreach and community building.
Role in OLS:
Director of Learning and Technology
OLS-1 organizer / OLS-2 expert, organizer / OLS-3 mentor, expert, organizer / OLS-4 mentor, expert, organizer / OLS-5 organizer / OLS-6 organizer / OLS-7 organizer / OLS-8 organizer / OLS-9-CATALYST organizer / OLS-9-DRA organizer
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: OLS-9-DRA project lead
As a quadriplegic with limited use of all limbs, uses a power wheelchair, and a graduate student of the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine (FRM) from the University of Alberta, I am honored to have been selected as an EDIA (Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility) Champion through the Digital Research Alliance of Canada’s pilot program. This recognition reflects commitment to my core values and underscores the importance of disability studies and inclusive research practices in almost all diverse fields of studies. As part of U of A, I do have the opportunity to collaborate with different faculty in the University. My background is Electrical/Electronics Engineering and current p
Role in OLS:
Finance manager
OLS-8 mentor
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: OLS-1 mentor, expert / OLS-2 expert
Björn is working in the European Galaxy team and tries to help make science open wherever he can. He is an expert in the topics related to Container, Conda, Galaxy, Python, reproducible research, and training.
Role in OLS: OLS-1 expert
Bhuvana is a gender gap and Mixed Reality researcher trying to unfold the ethics of technology in a more humane way. Her expertise are in Gender gap, Mozilla technologies and Wikimedia projects.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-CATALYST project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-1 project lead / OLS-7 mentor
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-4 project lead
I am a UX (User Experience) designer whose practice centers on using service design methods to inclusively design digital experiences. My research focuses on collaborative methods of designing services for complex systems, allowing me to combine a passion for opening access to STEM with critical and decolonial approaches to design.
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead
I’m an omnivert who loves to have fun and adventure. I do anything that counts as fun to me be it books, movies or music; it comes in season. I love to learn from all the aforementioned as much as I can and do like giving back in the little way I can. Also, I’m a friendly person. I don’t really know how to keep up conversation though
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-1 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead
Aditi is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Exeter, in the department of Politics (Q-Step). Her research interest includes studying the impacts of online misogyny, and its subjectivity, understanding the differences in perception of certain comments/posts on social platforms, and using all this knowledge to measure and detect hate speeches towards women with the help of natural language processing (NLP). Using her research and background, Aditi is passionate about contributing to creating a safer and equal digital space for women.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead / OLS-6 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-6 project lead / OLS-7 mentor / OLS-9-DRA mentor
Role in OLS: OLS-9-CATALYST project lead
I am a research scientist at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) in the Center for Microbiology Research (CMR), working under the Department of Laboratory Services Project. Currently, I am pursuing a graduate degree in Medical Laboratory Science with a focus on virology at Kenyatta University, where I am conducting research on rotavirus. I am also an active member of the Biochemistry Biotechnology Professionals Society of Kenya (BBPSK) and the Bioethics Society of Kenya (BSK), contributing to advancements in biochemistry and ethical research practices in Kenya.
Role in OLS: OLS-1 project lead / OLS-2 mentor / OLS-3 mentor / OLS-4 mentor, expert
Bruno is a Brazilian ecologist working on a more collaborative and open science.
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-4 project lead / OLS-5 mentor
Role in OLS: OLS-2 expert / OLS-3 mentor, expert
Melissa is the Training and Communications Officer with Australian BioCommons. She previously worked at EMBL-EBI and has extensive experience in developing, organising, delivering and running face-to-face and online workshops and webinars. She has a PhD in Molecular Parasitology and has worked as a Scientific Curator through which first became interested in open science practices. Some of the open-science related projects that she has been involved in include applying FAIR principles to training materials and showing researchers how they can get the most out of their data by teaching best practice in data management and the FAIR principles.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 expert
Carlos did his PhD in computer science, and has been working in different areas of application ever since. He likes learning about the different areas of research where digital technology can open up new areas of research. In his words - In every project I have been involved, I have always learned something new, and I love that feeling of discovering new things.
Role in OLS: OLS-4 project lead / OLS-5 project lead
I am a Research Data Scientist at the Alan Turing Institute. An experimental psychologist by training, I moved to the research engineering group to be part of research projects that are more focussed on being open and reproducible!
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead / OLS-4 expert
I divide my time between data analysis to understand the smallest components of matter, instrumentation R&D, and science and education capacity building programs to build the next generation of scientists in Latin America. I am an advocate for virtual research and learning communities as a way to strengthen scientific connections between Europe and Latin America.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
I am a cheerful person, and the last year I have to learned to have more patience to deal with various situations in my life I have been able to count on the support of my friends
Role in OLS:
Executive Assistant (contract)
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead / OLS-8 expert
I am a Ph.D candidate in Engineering Sciences, focusing on Soil Sciences. I work at the Soil Biophysics Laboratory at the University, were we investigate soil processes with an applied point of view.
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA mentor
I’m a postdoctoral researcher applying machine learning methods to answer questions related to the impact of climate change on natural and managed ecosystems. As an Open Science aficionada, I love teaching and learning new ways to do open and reproducible research.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-CATALYST project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-1 project lead / OLS-2 expert / OLS-5 expert
I’ve been promoting open science since 2018 (formalised with OLS-1!), and in 2020 I moved to a research support role to implement behaviour change towards the adoption of open science and reproducibility practices at our Centre (https://www.win.ox.ac.uk). I care a lot about inclusivity and being a positive role model in my interactions and leadership.
Role in OLS: OLS-6 project lead
I’m a PhD student in environmental psychology with a passion to make science accessible to as many people as possible. The first step in this journey is through open science practices which is why I’m part of the core team at Agape focusing on creating a community of practice in which open science is normal practice for PhDs and other students or academics.
Role in OLS: OLS-4 project lead
I am a Lecturer in Language Education at the University of York in the UK, where I study second language processing and acquisition. My research explores what individual cognitive differences can tell us about the mechanisms underlying second language learning, and how these mechanisms interact with the language environment.
I also work to make research in education and the language sciences open and accessible to all through my work with EROS, IRIS and OASIS.
IRIS (https://iris-database.org) is a collection of instruments, materials, stimuli, and data coding and analysis tools used for research into second languages, including second and foreign language learning, multilingualism, language education, language use and processing.
The OASIS initiative (https://oasis-database.org) is establishing a systematic and sustainable culture of providing open, accessible summaries of research in the language sciences.
EROS (https://osf.io/qwurf/) is an Open Research working group within the Department of Education at York who advocate for more inclusive, open and reproducible research.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Clotilde Djuikem is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Manitoba. Her work focuses on mathematical epidemiology and the impacts of climate change on Arctic fish species. She holds a Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Douala, Cameroon, and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Université Côte d’Azur, France. She is the founder of the YouTube channel Tioh Academy, where she shares her passion for mathematics through educational content. Through her platform, she also aims to encourage young girls to pursue careers in science. You can connect with her on LinkedIn (Clotilde Djuikem) and explore her YouTube channel, which inspires others to app
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
I am an early career researcher with a deep interest in past plant technology and responsible research. My research aims at identifying plant fibre remains preserved in archaeological contexts and in museum collections. For this, I combine micro (comparative anatomy, phytoliths) and macro studies (plant morphology and indigenous/local knowledge) with data gathered from experimental archaeology
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead / OLS-4 mentor
Carly is a Senior Technician at the University of Western Australia, responsible for managing the archaeology laboratories, field safety, and equipment. She specialises in faunal analysis (zooarchaeology), and is passionate about connecting people with place and environment.
Role in OLS: OLS-6 expert
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.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-CATALYST expert
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-1 project lead / OLS-2 expert
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Chiedozie is a physiotherapist, lecturer, and doctoral student in Population Health Studies at the University of Lethbridge. His research interests include physical function, musculoskeletal physiotherapy, life satisfaction, quality of life, health behaviours, and aging. Chiedozie conducts quantitative and qualitative research as well as systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Chika Maduakolam is a Ph.D. candidate in Socio-legal Studies at York University. She holds an LLM degree from Osgoode Hall Law School. She has worked as part of teams on international research projects focused on gendered violence in war; and on a domestic project on civil justice in Canada. Her main area of research is focused on sexual and gender-based violence in conflict. She is interested in the following research areas: conflict-related sexual violence, gender issues, militarized masculinities, international law and human rights.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-1 project lead / OLS-2 expert / OLS-3 expert
Project Officer and Technical lead in neuroscience software and infrastructure to accelerate and open neuroinformatics research workflows, based at the Montreal Neurological Institute. Mentor for Google Summer of Code and Season of Docs, and past participant in OLS program.
Role in OLS: OLS-4 project lead
I’m a biologist working with physicists in songbird neuroscience. I really like doing ephys experiments, data analysis and building stuff for the lab.
I am a volunteer in open science initiatives since I am passionate about teaching people new tools to help solve their problems and encouraging others to learn.
I love doing outreach on bioacoustics and sound visualization, and also enjoy everything DIY, baking and playing the oboe in orchestra.
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead
I’m excited to be in the program. I believe the experience here will expose me to greater knowledge and research collaboration opportunities.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead / OLS-5 project lead
Archaeobotanist and ethnoarchaeologist interested in dryland agriculture
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead
I’m an astronomer, science writer and communicator. I care for humans, the arts, planet Earth, social justice, scientific literacy and random stuff in the Universe. Ah, and I’m from the south of Italy!
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead / OLS-7 mentor / OLS-9-DRA mentor
I am a Mathematician and hold a Ph.D. in Cybernetics, currently working as a NeuroAI researcher to develop brain-augmented AI systems. I have been involved with several open sources (e.g. Linux software development community of Turkey) and open science (Brainhack, OHBM, OLS) communities and worked on various projects for the dissemination, training, and management of open science/source projects and communities. I developed guidelines and educational materials and organized many events and training courses to train government and military officials, students, and scientific researchers. I love creating means to bring community members with diverse backgrounds and expertise.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead / OLS-4 expert
I studied psychology in my undergraduate degree (University of Queensland, Australia) and cognitive neuroscience in my postgraduate degree (Queensland Brain Institute, Australia). Throughout my PhD, I became increasingly disillusioned at the state of academia – particularly the scholarly publishing system – and decided I would rather devote my career to reforming academia than pursuing my research interests (which include consciousness, meditation, attention, and prediction). To this end, I joined IGDORE and founded Project Free Our Knowledge, a conditional pledge platform that seeks to increase the adoption of open and reproducible research practices through collective action.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead / OLS-3 expert
I’m a color vision researcher and open science advocate.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead / OLS-6 mentor
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.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
My name is Sebastian and I am a PhD student in Neuroscience. I am currently attending Queen’s University in Kingston, ON. My research area focuses on traumatic brain injury and the resulting behavioural deficits that come with it. I have a particular emphasis on investigating how repeated asymptotic mild traumatic brain injury can accumulate into long-term cognitive & motor impairment. We use different neuroimaging and sensorimotor data collection tools in our lab to see if we can associate changes in kinematics with changes in structural integrity. I’m very interested in sensorimotor control, and am hoping to do work in the motor recovery field later in my career.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
Medical student Associate editor of the Journal of the scientific society of medical students of the Universidad Mayor de San Simón “Revista Científica Ciencia Médica” Junior Researcher Auxiliary of the journal of the faculty of medicine of the Universidad Mayor de San Simón
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-1 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead
Daniel Chan received his MSc in microbiology during the course of his PhD candidacy in S. Aureus infectious disease models using skin organoids. He has been a research technician for many years in multiple fields including cellulostic ethanol production, protein crystallography, prefrontal cortex development and heat shock proteins. He also worked as a medical editor, fact checking pharmaceutical ads in an agency. The common set of skills underlying his practice are molecular biology, non-hierarchical community participation, and scientific inquiry which he is committed to employ in support of radical communities rooted in justice and scholarship.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
I am a senior Bioengineering student at UTEC in Peru. I have been part of research projects involving synthetic biology and biomaterials. With knowledge of bioinformatics and analysis programs. I enjoy sharing science and technology to students through my participation in open programs like volunteers and organizations that promotes research and curiosity.
Role in OLS: OLS-1 mentor, expert / OLS-2 expert
Daniela is a Neuroscientist with a passion for open, equitable, and transparent scholarship. She is a former Mozilla Fellow, and she now leads a project called PREreview to empower researchers to engage with each other and review preprints.
Role in OLS: OLS-4 expert
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-1 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-5 mentor, expert / OLS-6 expert
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.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 mentor / OLS-4 mentor, expert
I am an Assistant Professor at Penn State University and I have been part of the Galaxy team for 5 years. I work on genomics and epigenetic and develop workflows and tutorials.
Role in OLS: OLS-1 expert / OLS-2 expert / OLS-3 expert
Demitra Ellina is the Editorial Community Manager at F1000Research. She is a strong advocate of Open Research and engages with the research community to raise awareness of the F1000Research publishing platforms.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Am Daniel, a graduate of Biochemistry with major interest in using bioinformatics softwares to gain insight into intricacy of biological data, by leveraging on open source ecosystem
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead / OLS-8 mentor, expert / OLS-9-CATALYST expert
I have a genetic engineer background and i work now as a data steward. Helping to write data management guidelines for researchers.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Enthusiastic about science discovery.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
Natural product researcher who focus on drugs discovery
Role in OLS: OLS-4 project lead / OLS-5 mentor / OLS-6 mentor / OLS-7 mentor / OLS-8 mentor
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.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 mentor / OLS-4 mentor, expert / OLS-6 expert
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.
Role in OLS: OLS-6 project lead
Jennifer Ding is a Research Application Manager at The Alan Turing Institute. Her research interests are in AI ethics and privacy by design
Role in OLS: OLS-1 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead
I am a senior assistant librarian for research services
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
My name is Prof Dozie Onunkwo. I am an Animal Scientist. I am married with four children
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
Work as IT analyst at university, mainly do an interface between scientists and IT experts. Lead small IT team of BBMRI.cz focused on data gathering and harmonization.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead / OLS-4 expert
Grew up on a farm in Germany. I like open science, sustainability and exploring the outdoors. I pursue a PhD working on improving the design of stable metalloproteins using deep learning and molecular simulation.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-3 mentor, expert / OLS-4 mentor, expert
As the Data Science Community Conference and Events Fund Program Manager at Code for Science and Society, I developed a transparent, community-driven program that provides funding for research-driven open data science events. I have 10 years of experience working in research data science focused on population genetics, evolution, and management of Alaskan fish populations as well as a strong background in mentoring and leadership in science advocacy initiatives.
Role in OLS: OLS-4 project lead
Erika Salomon is a social psychologist-turned-data scientist focused on improving the use of data in the social good space by helping organizations achieve greater data maturity and build scalable, actionable insights from their data.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
I’m a Brazilian living abroad for several years; I’m pursuing my Ph.D. in (Open Computational) Neuroscience in France while working part-time in the Netherlands; I’m a huge Open Science enthusiast and have been advocating for this framework in Europe for the past 5 years.
Role in OLS: OLS-6 project lead
I’m a Community Manager working to facilitate collaboration within a project using AI to better understand multiple long-term conditions. During my (psycholinguistics) PhD I became fascinated with open research and got into teaching reproducibility and R.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
Highly motivated, inspired, and passionate to the open science and open scholarship movement. It is one of my greatest values and interests engaging people on discussing topics, curating, and organising discussions and events. I am deeply curious and invested in continuous learning and self-growth.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead / OLS-3 mentor, expert / OLS-4 mentor, expert / OLS-5 mentor, project lead / OLS-6 mentor, expert / OLS-9-DRA mentor
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: OLS-2 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
I am a passionate, determined and curios hands-on statistician and research scientist. I love to analyze code and translating complex dataset into key strategic insights identifying new analytic trends and opportunities. I enjoy generating new ideas and developing feasible solutions to major problems. Passion in promoting a fairness-aware-technologies development.
Role in OLS: OLS-6 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
I am currently a PhD student at Queen’s University with a background in Electrical Engineering. My research experience has focused extensively on signal processing techniques, and I am now applying that expertise to address challenges in neuroscience. Specifically, I am exploring brain pathology in Cerebral Palsy, using my knowledge in data science to understand how a brain with a lesion produces and manages movement, and how rehabilitation can be optimized.
Role in OLS: OLS-4 project lead / OLS-6 expert / OLS-8 project lead, expert
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.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA mentor
I’m the Community Manager for Early-Career Researchers at eLife Sciences. I have a background in trade union organising, student union organising, leadership development and campaigning for change. I love supporting individuals make change in their communities, academic institutions and workplaces!
Role in OLS: OLS-1 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
I am a postdoctoral fellow working on analyzing data collected from telescopes. I focus on systematics, such as instrument beams.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 expert
Dr Emma Anne Harris’ research background is in cultural history, specifically the fear of technology, but her career has moved from science fiction to science fact. Working in research project management she has become an enthusiast for open science, research integrity, and RDM through roles including; Ethics Manager on the Human Brain Project and Research Integrity Officer at De Montfort University. Moving to Berlin from the UK in 2017, she worked on the ORION Open Science project as a Training Developer and Project Manager. She now works at Humboldt University on the FDNext Project which supports research data management through service portfolios, legal advice, and training.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead / OLS-4 expert
I am a former immunologist who now works at the UK’s Biobanking Centre. My role is to engage with researchers and Biobankers to improve efficiency in the sector.
Role in OLS: OLS-4 project lead / OLS-5 project lead / OLS-6 project lead / OLS-7 project lead / OLS-9-CATALYST project lead
Emmanuel Adamolekun is a Research fellow with Helix Biogen Institute, Ogbomosho, Nigeria ,a research organization focused on accelerating research in life through in-depth technical skills, training and capacity building in Bioinformatics and Genomics. Emmanuel graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Medical Laboratory Science from the prestigious Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomosho, Oyo State, Nigeria. He is currently a member of the Education and Internship committee of the International Society for Computational Biology-Student Council (ISCB-SB). He is a fellow of the Open Life Science (OLS) Mentorship programme where he is designing a Bioinformatics outreach for universit
Role in OLS:
Director of Finance and Operations
OLS-1 expert / OLS-2 expert / OLS-3 organizer / OLS-4 mentor, organizer / OLS-5 mentor, organizer / OLS-6 organizer / OLS-7 organizer / OLS-8 organizer
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.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
I am a research assistant, also a MSc student on bioinformatics.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 mentor, expert / OLS-4 mentor, expert / OLS-5 mentor / OLS-6 mentor, expert / OLS-8 expert / OLS-9-CATALYST mentor
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.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA mentor
Exploring better ways to develop open science policies and to track its impact.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Eunice Tunggal is a biracial Indonesian-Canadian student, currently pursuing her Master’s degree in Occupational and Public Health at Toronto Metropolitan University. She has a strong interest in health policy, and doing community-engaged research to assist in developing accessible, equity-seeking healthcare practices and programs. Her passion for these areas were shaped during her time collaborating with McMaster students and the City of Hamilton as a part of CityLAB on an affordable housing project, working in long-term care, and in family medicine and allergy-immunology research settings. Her current work revolves around women and gender-diverse individuals with disabilities and their lev
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-4 project lead
Moving present dreams towards a better real future with committed ignited teams, within the socio-environmental field. Skilled in environmental awareness, empathic and efficient coordination, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), community & stakeholder engagement. Founder of River University, under the wings of Coalition Clean Baltic (2018); co-founder of Polish Save the Rivers Coalition/Koalicja Ratujmy Rzeki /KRR (2016); co-initiator and coordinator of the first Water Round Table in Poland on the protection of waters and rivers in cooperation with the Ministry of the Environment (2009-2011); co-creator of Partnership for The Baltic initiative (2007-2012). I’m particularly interested and working in areas of #transboundary waters, #water stakeholders inclusion, #waterconflicts, #waterdiplomacy #waterdemocracy building, #problemsolving. Additional advantages of my long life curiosity and learning are certificates focused on global diplomacy, efficient management (PRINCE2® Foundation), Governance for Transboundary Freshwater Security. In 2021 nominated to Ashoka SHE SAYS program supporting women changemakers and social entrepreneurs.
Actively present in: Coalition Clean Baltic (CCB) - working on rivers, especially transboundary ones, source to sea approach [https://ccb.se] Water working group of European Environment Bureau [https://eeb.org/membership/our-working-groups] Save The Rivers Coalition (KRR) - Polish national coalition dedicated to rivers/water protection [www.ratujmyrzeki.pl] Friends of Ina and Gowienica Rivers Society (TPRIiG) [www.tpriig.pl] - regional level of riverine activity International Commission for the Protection of the Odra River against Pollution (ICPO) [www.mkoo.pl] You may also find some bits of me here: www.researchgate.net/profile/Ewa_Les
Role in OLS: OLS-3 expert / OLS-4 expert / OLS-5 expert
My research group studies how organisms respond to their environment, focusing on molecular mechanisms used by fungi. We collect and analyze genome-scale datasets to understand how fungi dynamically reorganize their RNA and protein to adapt to environmental change. We also produce open-science software tools, including tidyqpcr for quantitative PCR analysis in the tidyverse, and riboviz for ribosome profiling analysis. Both of these packages are going through software review and I’m learning a lot from the process. Alongside my research, I’m an open science advocate and teach data literacy to scientists, working with The Carpentries and Edinburgh Carpentries.
Role in OLS: OLS-1 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Eden Redman is the Executive Director of the non-profit organization NeurAlbertaTech (NAT), the province’s leading neurotechnology innovator network. He holds a BSc from the University of Alberta and is currently enrolled in a MSc in the Integrated Program in Neuroscience at McGill University. His research interests include biosignal processing, neuromodulation, and translational neuroscience. Eden has been named the Edmonton Student Entrepreneur of the Year, Alberta’s Top 30 Under 30, and leads provincially- and federally-awarded initiatives that have arisen from his efforts in merging his two great passions; computational neuroscience and community building.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
I am a German-born, German/UK/US-trained physician scientist and current Clinical Pathology Resident/ Pathology Fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. I am passionate about blood, translating research findings into patient diagnostics and care, and removing obstacles that prevent every patient getting the treatment that is right for them. As a clinical pathologist, I believe this starts with establishing a correct diagnosis - backed up by science and fair and transparent peer-review that holds everyone to the same standards.
Role in OLS: OLS-6 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead / OLS-6 mentor / OLS-7 project lead, mentor / OLS-8 mentor / OLS-9-DRA mentor
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.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-CATALYST project lead
Biomedical Scientist & IT professional
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Fanwang Meng got his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Paul W. Ayers at McMaster University, Canada and he moved to Prof. Connor W. Coley’s group at MIT for postdoctoral training in 2022. He joined Prof. Farnaz Heidar-Zadeh’s group at Queen’s University as a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow (most prestigious postdoc fellowship in Canada) in 2024. His research focuses on computational drug discovery with machine learning, computational chemistry and open-source software development. As a core member of the QC-Devs consortium, he is passionate about open-science by buidling open-source software tools. He has led/contributed to 16 open-source Python packages which cover the fields of computationa
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Fatima Ramirez is a mechatronics engineer currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Her research focuses on developing technology to improve the efficiency and sustainability of concrete 3D printing applications in the construction industry. A graduate of the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Guadalajara campus, she received a full scholarship through the Líderes del Mañana - Heineken Mexico distinction. Before starting her master’s program, Fatima worked at Intel Guadalajara in the Functional Validation area for server processors. She also co-founded the start-up TRIHTON/SPO, dedicated to developing specialized technological pr
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead / OLS-9-CATALYST project lead
I’m an enthusiastic coder who finds joy in crafting elegant solutions to complex challenges. Beyond lines of code, I’m passionate about forging meaningful connections, fostering new friendships, and embarking on collaborative journeys to bring innovative ideas to life.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
I’m a university technician in International Relations from the National University of Lanús (UNLa)- currently - am studying for a bachelor’s degree in Integration Processes and International Economic Relations at the same university. I have experience as a consultant in research projects financed by international organizations such as the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank (IADB-IBRD). He currently works as a Semi-Senior research assistant at CIECTI-UIME and an operational assistant for the coordination of technological tools for the ARPHAI project.
Role in OLS:
Resident Fellow (contract)
Role in OLS: OLS-1 project lead
Festus is a researcher in bioinformatics and data science. His main interestes include community outreach, open science, reproducible research and networking. He is actively engaged in training activities and he is the lead at the Bioinformatics Hub of Kenya(BHKi).
Role in OLS: OLS-1 mentor, expert / OLS-2 expert / OLS-3 mentor, expert / OLS-4 mentor, expert / OLS-5 mentor / OLS-6 mentor / OLS-8 mentor
Doing Bioinformatics and ML @ CERTH, Thessaloníki, GR, fan of training, Open Science and e-infras.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Frank is a PhD Student and an instructor at the University of Lethbridge. His doctoral research centers on integrating African epistemological and ontological views to decolonise fact-checking practices in Africa. Frank is a strong advocate and promoter of the black and African voices via scholarship and social entrepreneurial engagements.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
Frédérique is the publishing officer of TU Delft OPEN Publishing, the open access academic publisher of TU Delft. Her role consists of helping researchers to disseminate their research openly though various streams such as Open Access Books, Open Access textbooks and Open access journals. She is an advocate of open science, open peer-review and fair rewards &recognition.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
I currently work at National University of Jujuy and the National Scientific and Technical Research Council - Argentina. Most of my work has focused on the archaeobotanical study of ancient starch and phytoliths from dental calculus, ceramic residues and sediments in pre-Hispanic sites in Argentina.
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
I’m a Research Software Engineer based in Bristol working on a cloud platform for data sharing and analysis.
Role in OLS: OLS-4 project lead
Lifelong translator, former Digital Collaboration Consultant, with experience in database administration and creative communication. Trained in Agricultural economics and Systemic design. I am passionate about designing interventions for sustainable futures, with a current focus on improving human-nature relationship and biodiversity with collective intelligence.
Role in OLS: OLS-1 expert / OLS-2 expert / OLS-3 expert
Bastian is a long-term research fellow at the Center for Research & Interdisciplinarity in Paris, where he studies how bottom-up communities in citizen science can peer-produce knowledge. He’s also the Director of Research for the Open Humans Foundation, an online platform & community around empowering individuals to learn from their personal data. He started his academic career in evolutionary biology & genomics and has a PhD in Bioinformatics.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead / OLS-8 mentor, expert / OLS-9-CATALYST mentor
I’m the co-founder and CEO of Ersilia, a tech non-profit focused on developing open source AI/ML tools for infectious disease research. I am excited about making open source research software accessible to everyone, building communities and supporting neglected areas of scientific research
Role in OLS: OLS-9-CATALYST project lead
George Lugonzo is a dedicated Microbiologist with an unwavering commitment to advancing disease surveillance through cutting-edge technology and contributing to the development of ground-breaking diagnostic kits and treatment solutions.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead / OLS-5 mentor, expert
I am a researcher at The Alan Turing Instiitute working on co-creating a citizen science platform, AutSPACEs, with a community of autistic collaborators. I also worked for 3 years for the British Civil Service in their fast track scheme. I’m a believer in creating a collaborative over competitive work ethos, equity, and open research.
Role in OLS: OLS-7 expert / OLS-8 expert
Georgiana is a JupyterHub team member and an Open Source Infrastructure Engineer at 2i2c, where she is working with communities in research and education, managing the infrastructure behind the hubs they use and providing support for hub operations. Georgiana also cares about building inclusive communities and open work practices.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
High-energy physicist recruited by a neuroscience lab!
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead
Gift “Gigi” Kenneth is a machine learning engineer with a background in biochemistry, bringing a unique perspective to her work. Outside of her professional role, she volunteers as a program manager and enjoys writing about the latest developments in artificial intelligence.
Role in OLS: OLS-4 project lead
I am a Leverhulme Fellowship holder at the University of York. My research explores novel explanations to understanding why children play and how early years playful engagement impacts later development.
Role in OLS: OLS-6 project lead
open life science ambassador and bioinformatician interested with infectious disease research
Role in OLS: OLS-7 mentor / OLS-8 mentor / OLS-9-DRA mentor
open life science ambassador and bioinformatician interested with infectious disease research
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA mentor
Head of Communities at eLife Sciences, overseeing efforts to increase adoption of open science
Role in OLS: OLS-2 expert / OLS-4 mentor, expert / OLS-5 mentor / OLS-6 mentor, expert / OLS-7 mentor / OLS-9-DRA mentor
Theoretical & Quantitative Ecology freak. SciComm & Open Science leader. Catalyst of movements.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
I work at the intersection of Robotics, AI, & Cybersecurity, focusing on innovation & R&D, mostly through STEM education. I am dedicated to enhancing youth education with advanced AI & learning technologies. Currently, I am developing AI-based robotic systems under the McGill-UQAM Research-Innovation Chair in Animal Welfare & AI to improve dairy industry. Passionate about EdTech, I seek opportunities to tackle sector challenges. I’ve earned national & international awards in technology innovation & entrepreneurship.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 expert
Polyglot European Scientist. Thrives working in interdisciplinary environments combining the study of enzyme reactions and mechanisms with bioinformatics, molecular modelling, automated data analysis and data stewardship.
Role in OLS: OLS-4 project lead
I am currently a Chemistry graduate student in the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. I find myself really interested in nanomaterials and the huge world of Data Science and how it can be used in areas like chemistry. I also love yoga, science fiction and videogames!
Role in OLS: OLS-1 mentor, expert / OLS-2 expert / OLS-3 expert / OLS-4 expert / OLS-5 expert / OLS-6 expert
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.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
I am originally from Pakistan and completed my bachelor’s degree there. I am currently pursuing a PhD in particle physics at Simon Fraser University in Canada.”
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Medical Information Specialist/Literature Researcher in (bio)medical sciences, dentistry, nursing, health sciences, psychology and movement sciences.
Role in OLS: OLS-6 project lead / OLS-7 mentor / OLS-8 mentor
I am a PhD student with several interests that keeps me busy outside the lab. I dabble in science communication
Role in OLS: OLS-6 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead, mentor, expert / OLS-4 mentor
A Bioinformatician, who strongly believe in constant learning, collaboration, and team work.
Role in OLS: OLS-1 mentor, expert / OLS-2 mentor, expert
Holger is the head of Core IT team at the Max Planck Institute for Biolological Cybernetics. He enjoys the technical aspects of science - be it programming (Python), version control (git), web services (REST), or generally (self) organization and anti-procrastination. His mission is to support scientists in all aspects IT.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
I am a journalism and media studies scholar with particular focus on climate change communication, digital transformation of journalism practices and business models and computational research methods.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-1 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-2 mentor / OLS-3 mentor / OLS-4 mentor / OLS-6 mentor, expert / OLS-9-CATALYST mentor
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: OLS-7 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
Bioinformatician, working in pharmacogenomics and human genetic disease fields. Outside research, working with APBioNet as APBioNet ExCo and APBioNetTalks program coordinator.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-1 expert
Biomedical scientist and science communicator interested in building effective outreach strategies for equitable access of research outputs.
Role in OLS:
NASA Cohort Coordinator (contract)
OLS-3 project lead / OLS-4 expert / OLS-5 expert / OLS-6 expert / OLS-7 expert / OLS-8 mentor, expert
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: OLS-3 mentor, expert / OLS-4 mentor, expert / OLS-5 expert
I am Associate Director for ASAPbio, a nonprofit with a mission to accelerate innovation and transparency in life sciences communication. In this role I work to foster awareness of preprints and drive community engagement, and support initiatives to bring further transparency into peer review.
Prior to ASAPbio, I worked in publishing for 16 years, I held editorial roles with Open Access publishers, initially at BioMed Central and then PLOS, where I was Deputy Editor-in-Chief at the journal PLOS ONE. I am also Facilitation and Integrity Officer for the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Role in OLS: OLS-4 project lead
I am a biologist and experienced project manager in the life sciences field, with more than five years of experience in R&D for academia. Areas of my recent research span genome- and metagenome analyses, focusing on complex microbial communities originating from an anaerobic digestion. In addition, I am an active PR manager and community builder with a passion to help others gain skills in life science, and through teaching, volunteering, and public speaking.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
Ibrahim Said Ahmad is lecturer in the Department of Information Technology, Bayero University Kano. He completed his PhD from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, in 2020 focusing on data science. His main areas of interest lie in Data Analytics, Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence specifically in business intelligence and computational intelligence. He has worked and published articles on sentiment analysis, natural language processing, and data mining.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Islam K. Matar. B.Pharm.Sci. (Misr University for Science and Technology), Postgraduate Diploma in Drug Discovery (Cairo University), is a M.Sc. Student in Applied Science at Saint Mary’s University. His current research is focused on using molecular modelling/informatics for the discovery and development of therapeutic entities, with a current focus on antimicrobial agents.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead / OLS-5 project lead
Currently studying towards a MSc in philosophy of the social sciences at the LSE. Curious about the values that drive human action, and the nature of collaboration.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Ijeoma is an epidemiologist, implementation scientist, and preventive medicine physician with extensive experience in conducting large-scale research projects in resource-limited settings. Her research interests include prevention of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), digital health interventions to support patient management of NCDs, and artificial intelligence for healthcare and public health.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 mentor / OLS-3 expert
Research Scientist at UC Santa Cruz, Incubator Fellow at the UC Santa Cruz Center for Research on Open Source Software (CROSS); Adjunct Professor at University of Sonora (Mexico). Interested in large-scale distributed data management systems, applied aspects of data science, and reproducibility. I am currently working on Popper (https://getpopper.io), as part of the CROSS Incubator Program.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead
I love coding for learning vocabulary of animal behavior & sharing it
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead / OLS-6 mentor / OLS-7 project lead, mentor / OLS-8 mentor, expert / OLS-9-DRA mentor
Data scientist involved in research project related to the integration of mental health in gender responsive peacebuilding.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
I am a PhD student in Chemistry at the University of Victoria where my research focuses on quantum algorithms, primarily for simulating materials and molecules. I am part of the theoretical and computational condensed matter physics research group led by Professor Thomas E. Baker, and I am also in the NSERC CREATE in Quantum Computing program managed by Quantum BC. I hold a BSc in Physics from Sorbonne University and an MSc in Biomedical Physics (with distinction) from the University of the West Indies. My previous research related to applied crystallography and x-ray diffraction materials analysis utilizing pattern fitting, simulation, and machine learning. I then transitioned into quantum
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Dr. Ezirigwe is a distinguished Associate Professor of Law, at the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS) and a Visiting Scholar at NIALS’ partner hub, Open AIR Network, University of Ottawa. She has over 19 years of experience in law practice, legal research, advocacy, education, and knowledge mobilization for broader usage, across five continents, at national, regional and international levels. Her research interests primarily revolve around food and agricultural law and governance of Big data and AI in the food and agricultural sector. She is committed to mainstreaming gender perspectives and racial justice in her research and employs socio-legal methodologies to produce evi
Role in OLS: OLS-1 expert / OLS-2 expert
Jason is a life scientist who spends most of his time working to help researchers adopt computational practices in research and education
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
I am an archaeologist with field experience in Bolivia, Brazil, India and Spain, specialising in phytolith analysis for archaeological and palaeoecological studies. Currently I am a last-year PhD candidate at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, waiting for viva. My main interests are prehistoric cultivation systems, landscape anthropization and the development of new techniques for phytolith analysis.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Assistant professor at VU Amsterdam. Studying self-regulation in the workplace. An enthusiast of meta-analysis, meta-science and supporter of big-team scientific projects.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 expert / OLS-4 mentor, expert / OLS-5 mentor / OLS-7 mentor / OLS-8 expert
Former neuro-geneticist (10 year of research on fruit fly memory and behavior), I have been more recently interested in data analysis and management, as a specialisation for my interests in open science (open research). I am presently working on ways (technical and social) to implement the principles of FAIR and open data in the lab workflow and ways to foster collaboration between researchers via the SmartFigure Gallery project.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-5 expert
Jesper Dramsch works at the intersection of machine learning and physical, real-world data. Currently, they’re working as a scientist for machine learning in numerical weather prediction at the coordinated organisation ECMWF. Jesper holds a PhD and recently gave their first keynote. They’re passionate about teaching Python and elevating people’s careers with machine learning across the world.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
I work at the UKCRC Tissue Directory and Coordination Centre (TDCC). It is a project in collaboration between UCL (my host institution) and University of Nottingham to build and maintain a online directory of UK-based tissue samples. There I work to develop collaborations with external stakeholders to join-up the UK’s biomedical research landscape in relation to biobanking - the collection, storage and use of (human) biological samples for research. My background is in policy development with specific focus on social justice, and patient and public engagement in health research and UK clinical guidelines. I have a special interest in using creative activities and techniques, such as the use of performance and games, to engage both professionals and the public in research work.
Role in OLS: OLS-4 mentor, expert
I’m the lead maintainer, developer, and community manager for a Python library called icepyx (for obtaining and working with data from NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite). I am also a glaciologist focusing on glacier-ocean interactions (especially icebergs) and human adaptation to climate change. The highly computational nature of my work and dedication to social justice naturally led me to practicing open science, and I enjoy being part of the open science community and sharing knowledge, fostering skill development, and creating shared software to advance my field.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 mentor, expert / OLS-3 mentor, expert / OLS-5 expert / OLS-6 expert / OLS-9-DRA mentor
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.
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead / OLS-8 mentor
I am a researcher at CIIPME-CONICET and a teaching assistant at the University of Buenos Aires. I am also a member of RLadies Buenos Aires and MetaDocencia. Among other things, I study how children acquire and develop mathematical skills.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Jackie is a former clinical research nurse with a strong passion for social justice. Currently pursuing a PhD, her research focuses on integrating physiological signals and machine learning to infuse emotion into music. By creating meaningful interactions between minimally communicative individuals and their caregivers, Jackie aims to enhance connection and improve the quality of interactions that these individuals can have with their world.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
Senior student of Genetics & Biotechnology at UNMSM, Peru. Member of MikuyTec synbio research group, member of Computational Biophysics Lab at UNIFAL-MG, Brasil and president of SciHack, a DIY Bio community lab aiming to democratize biotechnology.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Worked originally in health care, then briefly as a junior researcher. Discovered data management and have been part of the movement towards better RDM since then.
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: OLS-3 project lead / OLS-4 expert / OLS-7 project lead
Independent scholar advancing open knowledge through a portfolio of projects in open education, open science, and open data. PhD in Public Policy with research interests at the intersection of science & technology policy and the future of work. Expertise in issues facing early career researchers.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-6 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-1 expert / OLS-3 expert
Joel is a Teaching Fellow for a graduate Data Science program. He did his PhD in Stem Cell Engineering and enjoys learning and teaching how to better understand data (and thus the world around us!). He is also passionate about openness, reproducibility, and data visualization, both within science and in general.
Role in OLS: OLS-7 mentor
Obanda joined Crossref in 2023 to work with Crossref Ambassadors in effectively engaging their communities and to support Crossref’s outreach initiatives. Obanda is passionate about building an inclusive research ecosystem where researchers across the globe can easily access scientific knowledge and make meaningful connections. His previous experience includes social entrepreneurship and science communication. For fun, Obanda likes to explore historical sites and experience sunset.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 expert
With a background in Evolution and Developmental Biology, Dr. Johanna Havemann is a trainer and consultant in [Open] Science Communication and [digital] Science Project Management. Her work experience covers NGOs, a science startup and international institutions including the UN Environment Programme. With a focus on digital tools for science and her label Access 2 Perspectives, she aims at strengthening global science communication in general – and with a regional focus on Africa – through Open Science.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
I am a PhD student at the University of Calgary studying environmental microbiology. I am interested in the microbial community present in our freshwater, studying the factors that shape this community, and the impact dysbiosis of this community could have on environment and human health. In my PhD studies, I am focused on microplastics as a factor impacting the freshwater microbiome. This includes evaluating the potential for microplastic to act as a vector for the spread of antimicrobial resistant pathogens, as well as exploring the potential of using bacteria as a tool for the remediation of plastic pollution.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 expert
I am a poet and performance artist. One of my main practices is ‘empathic literature’, in which a conversation with an individual leads to my creating a unique piece of poetic writing for them, with the aim of reflecting their perspective back to them in a novel way, as a tool for new insights. I am a graduate of philosophy specialising in scientific representation.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead / OLS-3 mentor, expert / OLS-4 expert / OLS-5 expert / OLS-6 mentor, expert / OLS-7 mentor / OLS-8 mentor / OLS-9-CATALYST expert / OLS-9-DRA mentor
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.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-5 mentor, expert
Stephan is passionate about brains, accessible education, and making scientific practice more transparent and inclusive. Throughout his doctoral research, he has been active in the Dutch network of Open Science Communities and he founded OpenMR Benelux, a community working on wider adoption of open science practices in MRI research through talks, discussions, workshops and hackathons. Stephan has since continued this passion as a Research Data and Software Engineer at the Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany, where he works on software solutions for neuroinformatics and decentralised research data management. He also holds post-doctoral positions in the SYNC developmental neuroscience lab at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Leiden University in the Netherlands.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead / OLS-5 project lead
I am an archaeobotanist interested in how late prehistoric societies interacted with their environment in terms of plant food acquisition and transformation practices, particularly during the Neolithic and Bronze Age.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Julián is an institutional communicator and audiovisual producer.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead / OLS-8 mentor
A medical doctor with focus in Health Data Science, IA and Global Health
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
I am trained formally in Statistics. I have worked as a Software Quality Engineer - Statistician.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead / OLS-6 mentor
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.
Role in OLS: OLS-4 expert
Kate Hertweck is a scientist and educator who endeavors to uphold core values like: diversity/equity/inclusion, accessibility of information, and learning over knowing. Their career as a scientist began in evolutionary genomics of plants, but is now focused on supporting biomedical researchers implementing reproducible computational methods and other approaches in open science.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA mentor
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead / OLS-6 project lead / OLS-7 mentor / OLS-8 mentor
Role in OLS: OLS-1 expert / OLS-2 expert
Kari is the Senior Director of Equity and Assessment for The Carpentries, Executive Director of the Engineer Like a Girl after-school program, and a Zumba Fitness Instructor! Kari’s background is mechanical engineering, and she earned a PhD in Engineering Education from The Ohio State University. Her doctoral research explored self-efficacy of underrepresented engineering students. After completing a post-doc in the Engineering Fundamentals Department at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, she was hired to lead The Carpentries assessment efforts. In her current role, her focus is developing programs through the lens of equity, and setting strategic efforts around assessment that inform The Carpentries curriculum and other initiatives.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-CATALYST expert
Role in OLS: OLS-1 project lead / OLS-2 mentor, expert / OLS-3 expert / OLS-4 mentor, expert / OLS-5 mentor, expert / OLS-6 mentor, expert / OLS-7 mentor / OLS-8 project lead
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
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead / OLS-3 mentor, expert / OLS-4 mentor
I am an early career researcher focused on building energy use with a passion for learning about open community and open science practices that I can apply to my work. I am motivated to share academic knowledge with those who can benefit from it. I would love to see an open data community of practice including households, building practitioners and researchers.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead / OLS-3 project lead / OLS-4 expert
Katharina is a PhD student at the Peer-Produced Research Lab at the Center for Research & Interdisciplinarity in Paris, France. She is working on the participatory design of tools to support bottom-up communities in citizen science in peer-producing knowledge. She has a background in cognitive and media science and user experience consulting and is passionate about art and illustration.
Role in OLS: OLS-1 mentor, expert
Studied biochemistry, arctic ecology & geology, PhDed in diatom biofilms. Worked in tech support (Prezi), pharma-LIMS & OA data analysis.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Kwaku is a PhD candidate at the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Regina. Kwaku has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Saskatchewan, a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree and a Master of Public Policy (MPP) degree both from the University of Regina. Kwaku’s research interests include population health policy affecting Black people, child welfare policy, Indigenous peoples policy and education policy. He has received several scholarships and awards for his research work including the Saskatchewan Innovation and Excellence Graduate Scholarship, the City of Regina Henry Baker Scholarship and the Institute of Public Administration of Canada
Role in OLS: OLS-6 project lead
My name is Ken Mugambi. Currently am a masters student at Pwani University
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Tasneem Khan is a PhD Candidate at the University of Waterloo, and her general research focus is on social and economic predictors of the mental health of disadvantaged or at-risk populations. This includes research on immigrants, immigrant women, South Asians and some research on Indigenous Peoples and mostly using Statistics Canada Data. Her interest in mental health equity developed from migrating to Canada at a young age and studying psychology and neuroscience during her Honours Bachelor of Science at the University of Toronto.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Kim is a medical student at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She holds bachelor and masters degrees in Mechanical engineering and has a passion for indigenous data sovereignty in research. Kim’s current research focuses on indigenous perspectives on virtually-provides health care. Kim serves on an indigenous research ethics working group And hopes that her research and scholarly activities work will raise up indigenous voices and encourage indigenous students’ involvement in research.
Role in OLS: OLS-1 mentor, expert / OLS-2 mentor, expert / OLS-5 mentor / OLS-6 mentor, expert / OLS-7 mentor / OLS-9-CATALYST mentor
Caleb is a 19/20 Mozilla Fellow and a Bioinformatician, interested in teaching, open science, reproducibility, machine learning, FAIR Genomics, and community building.
Role in OLS: OLS-1 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-1 expert / OLS-2 expert / OLS-9-CATALYST expert
Kirstie is a lead of the Tools, Practices and Systems research programme at the Alan Turing Institute (London, UK) and senior research associate in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. Her work covers a broad range of interests and methods, but the driving principle is to improve the lives of neurodivergent people and people with mental health conditions. Dr Whitaker uses magnetic resonance imaging to study child and adolescent brain development and participatory citizen science to educate non-autistic people about how they can better support autistic friends and colleagues. She is the lead developer of The Turing Way, an openly developed educational resource to enable more reproducible data science. Kirstie is a passionate advocate for making science ‘‘open for all’’ by promoting equity and inclusion for people from diverse backgrounds, and by changing the academic incentive structure to reward collaborative working. She is the chair of the Turing Institute’’s Ethics Advisory Group, a Fulbright scholarship alumna and was a 2016/17 Mozilla Fellow for Science. Kirstie was named, with her collaborator Petra Vertes, as a 2016 Global Thinker by Foreign Policy magazine.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 mentor, expert / OLS-5 mentor, expert
PhD in medical sciences with expertise in infectious diseases and vaccines with expansive knowledge of the data driven life science industry. Proven ability to present and write clearly and persuasively, complex scientific and technical content, tailored to different audiences. Experience in inspiring, enthusing and influencing stakeholders and leading teams while navigating different cultural contexts. Extensive experience in developing strategies for national and international projects covering public-private partnerships, communication, and outreach as well as scientific programmes.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
PhD student who studies how information overload impact institutions grounded in big data focused on natural history and complex system science focused on fireflies and information theory.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 expert
Ex-astronomer, now data manager at a marine science data centre. Tackling the challenges of moving to FAIR data and open science.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-6 expert / OLS-8 project lead
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.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
Postdoctoral researcher, pationate on data management and semantics.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Fuqin (Kook) Hu is a McCall MacBain Scholar from China, currently studying Development Geography at McGill University. With a strong commitment to bridging digital divide, Kook focuses on empowering first-generation college students (FGS) through improved access to Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) and AI literacy. His project, funded by the DRI EDIA Champions Program, seeks to make DRI resources more accessible and equitable for underrepresented students at McGill. Outside of academics, Kook is a daily meditator, biography nut, question asker, and avid foodie. he reads Paulo Coelho’s “The Alchemist” every night, and protects his curiosity to learn “how the world actually works, and wh
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-1 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-1 expert / OLS-3 expert / OLS-4 expert
Dr. Stack Whitney is an environmental studies professor at RIT in upstate NY, USA. As a person whose teaching and work sits at the interface of environmental science and environmental humanities, she’s excited about “open” for all kinds of teaching and research. However, she’s also a critical advocate for ensuring that “open” initiatives and products do not exclude disabled leaders and participants.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
I’m a PhD candidate at Western University in the Department of Computer Science, with a passion for turning data into discoveries. I apply AI and statistical methods to better understand the genetic basis of complex diseases such as Rheumatoid Arthritis and COVID-19. My research integrates large-scale genomic and socio-demographic data to develop fair and inclusive models for predicting disease risk. I’m also committed to developing open-source software to make scientific tools more accessible. Outside of research, I enjoy volunteering, mentoring STEM students, and supporting initiatives that promote inclusion and diversity in STEM.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Lucy Killoran is a PhD researcher at the University of Glasgow and Historic Environment Scotland. Her research examines the potential impacts of integrating machine learning methods into archaeological survey practices.
Role in OLS: OLS-4 project lead
I am a Research Lab Technician in KAIMRC working on Metagenomics-based drug discovery Project. I am learning about how to apply Open Science practices in my reserach while at the same time simplify them and make them more accessible to my community.
Role in OLS: OLS-1 project lead / OLS-3 mentor / OLS-6 mentor / OLS-7 mentor / OLS-8 expert
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!
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
I am a PhD in Science and Technology/Chemistry at UFABC (Brazil), with a collaboration period at the University of Calgary (Canada), with a 6-month long postdoctoral position at UFABC - https://inct-mi.pesquisa.ufabc.edu.br/ and currently a postdoctoral researcher at Simon Fraser University. I am mainly interested in applying theoretical chemistry and computational methods to investigate electrochemical processes for green energy generation, water treatment and other environmental applications.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead / OLS-3 mentor, expert / OLS-4 expert / OLS-5 expert / OLS-6 expert / OLS-7 expert / OLS-8 mentor / OLS-9-DRA mentor
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.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 expert / OLS-3 mentor, expert / OLS-5 project lead
I am a tenured researcher leading a collaborative health data science research group. I also work to improve data analysis teaching and practice. I co-founded MetaDocencia, an open, collaborative, and Spanish-speaking education community. One of the roles I enjoy most is mentoring and teaching others.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Laura (aka Laurel) has experience working as an institutional communicator. Since 2008, she has been in charge of the analysis and planning of comprehensive institutional communication strategies combining digital communication, information systems, and organizations’ voices. She is also a professor at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-CATALYST mentor
A bioinformatician + biochemist passionate about drug discovery and finding solutions for Africa’s most burdensome diseases.
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-1 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
I am a PhD candidate at McGill University, researching phage-bacteria interactions and phage population genomics in the infant gut within the context of malnutrition. I hold a Master’s in Computational Biology from Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) and have research and teaching experience at both institutions. My expertise lies in metagenomics, phage-host interactions, and ecological dynamics. I deliver workshops for researchers across Canada, Mexico, and Colombia in English and Spanish. I’m passionate about inclusive, accessible learning techniques in science education.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead / OLS-9-DRA mentor
Fabrice LESSA is a young seed technologist who graduated from the University of Yaounde 1-Cameroon and has over 5 years of experience in project management in the domains of sustainable agriculture, waste management, and climate change. He has worked as a research trainee at RASA Life Science Informatics and BIOCLUES, where he researched Genome-Wide Analysis, NGS data analysis, RNA-seq/Transcriptome analysis and articles review.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Hi, I’m Letícia (Letty)! I’m an evolutionary biologist who loves whales, books, and photography. Currently, I am a graduate student at Dalhousie University working in two research groups: the Bielawski Research Group (Halifax, Canada), and Laboratory of Evolutionary Genomics (Campinas, Brazil). My research uses genomic and acoustic data to understand how cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) have evolved their complex sounds in different environments and social contexts. I am passionate about teaching, science communication and making science more inclusive and diverse! You’ll find me on social media as @leticiamagpali
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA mentor
Role in OLS: OLS-1 project lead / OLS-2 mentor
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Linda Okpanachi is a dedicated researcher at the University of British Columbia, Canada with a passion for all things data. Specializing in machine learning and natural language processing, she is committed to leveraging innovative digital tools to empower equity-seeking researchers. Linda is dedicated to promoting the adoption of technology and advancing inclusivity for women in tech, striving to bridge the digital divide in low-resource settings.
Role in OLS: OLS-4 project lead / OLS-5 mentor / OLS-6 mentor
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.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Olivia (Liv) Abram (she/her) is a settler doctoral candidate at the University of Saskatchewan whose research focuses on ethical reading, viewing, and listening practices in relation to engagement with Indigenous literatures. She explores the potential of slow, humble, and self-reflective engagement with written and oral narratives, but also multimodal and experiential story, such as those in graphic narrative, song, and place-based teachings. Her dissertation, Read, View, Listen: Ethical Settler Engagements with Indigenous Literary Expression, is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, The Literary Encyclopedia, and The Digital Research Allian
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Lojain Hamwi is a first year doctoral student in the Clinical Developmental Psychology program at York University. She is specializing in the Clinical Neuropsychology stream and completing a Health Psychology diploma to complement her studies. Her research focuses on the development of an infant pain assessment tool using a machine learning approach. Ultimately, her research aims to contribute to the improvement of assessing neonatal pain using a combination of novel tools, such as artificial intelligence and EEG. Lojain is also committed to promoting awareness of digital research tools and infrastructure among equity-seeking groups so that they improve outcomes in their respective fields.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
Geneticist, educator, and filmmaker with experience spanning neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and trekking through the muck in the Yukon Territories. My research focuses on the molecular and genetic mechanisms regulating human brain development but when I’m not in the laboratory, you can normally find me somewhere north of the arctic circle.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
I’m an Argentinian physical oceanographer, driven by understanding how the ocean moves and why. I have a strong interest in how ocean climate affects society.I love learning about diverse cultures through their languages, literature and music.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 mentor, expert
Louise is a social scientist specialising in Critical Data Studies. Her work examines the evolving Open Data/Open Science landscape and the evolution of data sharing infrastructures, practices and communities. In particular, her work focuses on issues of justice, access and marginalization.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 mentor
Computational biologist focused on genomic regulation and data integration. 12 years of experience in biological data analysis using the most well-established tools and contributing to novel algorithms to improve the quantification and visualization of genomic data. She approaches scientific challenges with passion and believes that a collaboration and not an individual alone can successfully conquer them.
Role in OLS: OLS-1 mentor, expert / OLS-2 mentor, expert / OLS-5 mentor, expert
I am the principal investigator of the Big Data Biology Lab at Fudan University (Shanghai) since September 2018. Our group works in computational biology, with a focus on the very large-scale. See https://luispedro.org/
Role in OLS: OLS-4 project lead / OLS-5 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Lulwama is a Global Health PhD candidate from Botswana examining Climate Justice in the context of a racial-colonial and hyper-capitalist death-based paradigm that has produced a violent politics of disposable life. She grapples with the existential threat posed by ecological breakdown in “post”-colonial Africa and explores how mainstream climate discourses have manufactured African vulnerability.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
I have a background in both Pharmacy and History, and I combined these fields during my PhD, where I text-mined digitized newspapers to analyze historical debates on morphine. I have always had a passion for education, which is why I am so happy to be working as an open science and academic skills teacher at TU Delft library since 2021. I am excited to join this community and learn more about open science!
Role in OLS: OLS-2 expert / OLS-4 mentor, expert / OLS-6 expert
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.
Role in OLS: OLS-4 project lead / OLS-5 project lead
My background is in Zoology and I have a PhD in bird flight aerodynamics, mostly working with hawks and eagles! I recently joined the Alan Turing Institute as a research data scientist, working on lots of projects. I have great interest in education and awareness of reproducibility in science and research, especially for life scientists. I’m a self taught programmer and have been involved with Software Carpentries and The Turing Way.
He is a PhD student and his general interest lies in developing and applying computational methods and algorithms to analyze large collections of biological data. At the moment, he is participating in a research project to develop a platform for a real-time comprehensive study of viral proteomics.
Role in OLS: OLS-6 project lead / OLS-7 mentor / OLS-8 mentor, expert
Role in OLS: OLS-1 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-4 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-2 mentor / OLS-3 mentor / OLS-6 mentor, expert / OLS-8 mentor / OLS-9-CATALYST mentor
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
OLS-1 mentor, organizer / OLS-2 mentor, expert, organizer / OLS-3 mentor, expert, organizer / OLS-4 organizer / OLS-5 project lead, mentor, organizer / OLS-6 mentor, organizer / OLS-7 mentor, organizer / OLS-8 organizer / OLS-9-CATALYST mentor, expert, organizer / OLS-9-DRA organizer
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: OLS-4 project lead / OLS-9-CATALYST mentor
Biologist turned developer, I did my PhD studying the microtubule cytoskeleton using yeast genetics, microscopy and simulations. I got interested on FAIR data and Open Science and I worked as biocurator in PomBase, the model organism database for fission yeast. Nowadays I work on ShareYourCloning, a web application to plan and document cloning strategies and genetic engineering.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead
I am studying engineering sciences. Also I’m currently also working on the development of a mobile application. I also have an interest in design and creative work.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
Maria Andrea Gonzales is a 4th year Bioengineering undergraduate in UTEC (Lima, Peru). She is currently working in a variety of biotechnology research projects as well as science communication projects. Maria Andrea is passionate about the application of synthetic biology and protein engineering for the development of open-source therapeutics as well as a sustainable food industry.
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-9-CATALYST project lead
I am a person who likes to learn new things.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
I am a neuroscientist passionate about education and science communication. Through the OLS initiative, I’d like to convince as many young researchers as possible that open science is better science!
Role in OLS: OLS-6 project lead
I work as Community Manager for the Diverse Data initiative at Genomics England and I’m interested in building an open source tooling and sharing network across a range of people developing exciting tools that enhance our understanding and application of diversity in genomics data and healthcare.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-CATALYST project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead / OLS-8 mentor
Since August 2022, I am a postdoctoral researcher at FAMAF (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba). I am interested in the analysis of bias in machine learning models. Specifically, in fairness metrics to evaluate bias in anonymization models of Electronic Health Records. I have a degree in Mathematics from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. During my Ph.D. at the Universidad de San Martin, I worked in the development of wetlands land cover maps using data from Synthetic Aperture Radar images and machine learning models. I am interested in education. I have experience as a teaching assistant. Since 2020 I am part of MetaDocencia.
Role in OLS: OLS-6 mentor, expert
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: OLS-4 expert
I received my PhD from the Institute for Geoinformatics at the University of Münster in the context of the research project ‘‘Opening Reproducible Research’’ (www.o2r.info). Today, I am working at ITC as an Open Science Officer. My job is to raise awareness for open practices and help researchers adhere to Open Science principles, including Open Data, Open Reproducible Research, Open Source Infrastructures, and Open Educational Resources. Another part of my work the co-organisation of the Open Science Community Twente, an inter-disciplinary, bottom-up community to promote, learn, share, and discuss Open Science practices.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Marlou Ramaekers is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Philanthropic Studies at the VU Amsterdam. One of her core tasks is the data management of the Giving in the Netherlands Project, which combines various data sources (surveys, annual reports, interviews) to biennally report on the philanthropic sector in the Netherlands. She has written her PhD thesis on the impact of the social environment on informal helping behavior and will defend this thesis in January 2024.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 expert
Marta is a scientific project manager within the training team at EMBL-EBI. She organises and facilitates training activities in several European projects. 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.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-2 expert
Martin is a computer fellow with an interest to help scientists tackle heaps of data. Spent last 7 years working on Galaxy project core codebases.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 mentor, expert / OLS-3 project lead, expert
Martina is currently working at the Max-Planck-Institute AE, doing cognitive neuroscience research using computational modeling techniques. She is an open-science advocate who enjoys programming and contributing to open-source projects and communities. She provides infrastructure support for The Turing Way project as a core contributor.
Role in OLS: OLS-4 mentor / OLS-6 expert
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.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
I’m currently post-doc at the Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, University of Milano-Bicocca working on the development of computational pipeline for the reconstruction of genome-scale metabolic networks of little-known organisms.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
A PhD candidate at the University of Victoria, Kelly graduated with his MN and MSc in Health Information Science in 2019 and has been working to modernize outdated EHR structures, standards, and evidence as they relate to health equity and quality nursing care, working to understand the factors that create and sustain inequities and supporting nurses to address them.
Role in OLS: OLS-6 expert
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.
Role in OLS: OLS-1 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-2 expert
Maria is the Application and Training Specialist for Research Computing at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia. She specialises in bioinformatics and data science education and training. She is passionate about supporting researchers, reproducible research, knowledge sharing and working collaboratively.
R community organizer interested in open reproducible science and data science in the public sector
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Mirta was born and raised in Croatia, where she also studied Physics at the Faculty of Science at the University of Zagreb. Her master’s thesis was in detector development for particle physics. She finished her Ph.D. at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel where she studied the weak-boson production in heavy ion collisions with the LHC detector. After that, she took interest in medical physics and joined the experimental work in breakthrough technology with diffusing alpha-emitters radiation therapy (DaRT) at Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheva, Israel. She recently joined the Enger lab to further pursue new venues in radiotherapy and radiobiology.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 mentor, expert / OLS-3 mentor, expert / OLS-4 mentor, expert / OLS-5 mentor
A designer and open source advocate with experience building on and offline communities in open government and health and life sciences
Role in OLS: OLS-6 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-1 project lead / OLS-3 expert
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
I am a PhD candidate in biological and biomedical engineering at McGill University. My background is in physics, biology, and computer science, and I work with computational models to solve problems in biomedicine. I’m passionate about science communication, teaching, and mentorship in STEM!
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
I am an enthusiastic student, pursuing Master’s in Bioinformatics from India. I am passionate about science and scientific techniques. My interests include Genomics, Proteomics, Molecular Biology and Cheminformatics. I wish to learn and pursue research in the future to work for the betterment of human health.
Role in OLS: OLS-6 expert / OLS-7 mentor / OLS-8 project lead
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: OLS-9-DRA project lead
I am passionate about exploring wildlife habitat management strategies that optimize conservation benefits in the interest of local communities. I hold a BSc in Natural Resources Management from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana, where I evaluated the effectiveness of the Subri River Forest’s Globally Significant Biodiversity Area (GSBA) in primate conservation. I then pursued an MSc in Ecology at Guangxi University, China, focusing on the performance of the global protected area network in biodiversity conservation. Currently, I am a doctoral student in Forest Sciences at Lakehead University, Canada, collaborating with the Biigtigong First Nations on Caribou habitat
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Mona is a senior postdoctoral fellow at the Cumming School of Medicine of the University of Calgary, specializing in microbial ecology, community ecology, computational biology, and bioinformatics. She applies ecological theory and high-throughput sequencing methods, such as meta-barcoding and meta-omics, to study environmental impacts on microbiomes, focusing on host-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions across various environments. Her current research focuses on the early-life gut microbiome from an ecological perspective, using advanced sequencing techniques to examine microbial interactions in infants’ guts and their responses to environmental factors. Mona holds a Ph.D. in Biology
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
The CAN-VIEW initiative, led by the University of Waterloo’s School of Optometry and Vision Science and School of Public Health Sciences, focuses on gathering and managing data from routine eye exams to facilitate AI-driven innovation and evidence-based policymaking in eye care. This project aims to co-develop data governance policies for CAN-VIEW in collaboration with the Southern Chiefs’ Organization (SCO), ensuring Indigenous data sovereignty by adhering to OCAP (Ownership, Control, Access, and Possession) principles. Hosted on the Digital Research Alliance of Canada’s infrastructure, CAN-VIEW will enhance the accuracy and efficiency of eye disease screenings, starting with diabetic retin
Role in OLS: OLS-4 expert
Himanshu is ML Engineer at PrepLadder, discovering User Behaviour patterns and founder of Resuminator. He works on Open Source Software and their Legal Compliance, awarded with Github Future Maintainer Award. He furthermore works on System Design and Design patterns.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 mentor
Mesfin Diro is a faculity at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. Currently, He’’s a PhD student at his home institute on Redox Flow Batteries in the area of nanotechnology. He has high enthusiasm in expanding comutatational and data science skills for better research outputs. He is also passionate and advocate of open source, open access and open scientific.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
Research student developing point of care diagnostic tool for malaria, He’s enthusiast of open science tools with skills in R programing and other open access software for bioinformatic analysis
Role in OLS: OLS-4 project lead / OLS-5 mentor
I am lecturer in Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana, West Africa. I have PhD in Building Technology from the same institution and a Masters of Science in Building Services Engineering from Loughborough University, UK. I am of the opinion that research has a pivotal role in the sustainable development of African countries.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
Michal Růžička obtained a master’s degree in the field of Information Technology Security and is a graduate of doctoral studies in the field of informatics with a focus on advanced search methods in specialized digital repositories. He has worked on many international and national projects – in the field of digital repositories, e.g. on the projects of the European Digital Mathematical Library (EuDML), the Czech Digital Mathematical Library (DML-CZ), various digital libraries of MUNI. In cooperation with industrial partners (TAČR project) he worked on the ScaleText project (advanced search in heterogeneous types of [text] data using machine learning methods). He is currently mainly involved in projects in the field of data management, protection and access (Open Science): the development of a system for long-term preservation of digital data (LTP) in the ARCLib project, responsibility for Open/FAIR data activities in HR4MUNI II project on acceleration and advancement of Open Science at MUNI; is the leader of the Czech National Open Access Desk within the European project OpenAIRE with accelerating national-wide activities in research data management in the Czech Republic. He is (co)author of dozens of publications in the field of data management and digital libraries.
Role in OLS: OLS-7 expert
Hello! I study meta-methodology in the behavioral sciences (when do our methods work and fail? and how can we improve them?) especially for vulnerable populations. Currently re-thinking how multi-country studies can be done, and best practices in ethical open science for qualitative research and indigenous psychology.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
Interested in brains on all levels of analysis: from molecular to cognitive and computational. Keen to bridge disciplines (neuroscience x artificial intelligence) and ask pertinent research questions. Passionate about open science, community building and knowledge sharing.
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead
Mike Trizna has been a data scientist with the Smithsonian Data Science Lab since 2018, and has been working with data (specifically in bioinformatics) elsewhere at the Smithsonian since 2007. As part of the Data Science Lab, Mike works with staff from the many science and humanities units of the Smithsonian to incorporate machine learning, data visualization, and open data science best practices into existing research. Mike also leads the Smithsonian’s partnership with the Carpentries (formerly Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry), whose goal is to teach foundational computational and data science skills to researchers.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead, expert
I am a physical oceanographer with a keen interest in the changing dynamics and hydrography of the South Atlantic Ocean. Currently, I am pursuing my PhD in Oceanography and Atmospheric Science at the University of Buenos Aires, where my research focuses on studying the impact of meridional wind variations on circulation and water masses properties along the southeastern continental shelf of South America.
Role in OLS: OLS-7 mentor
I am a sociologist and computer scientist who investigates how ground-truth data for machine learning is produced. The focus of my research are labor conditions and power dynamics in data generation and labeling. I lead the newly funded research group Data, Algorithmic Systems, and Ethics at Weizenbaum-Institut. I also work as a researcher at DAIR Institute where I am thinking through ways of engaging communities of data workers in AI research.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 expert
I am a social media professional with experience in creating content for scientific organisation social media accounts.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
I am a Bioinformatics Analyst at MKU. I am currently doing bioinformatics analysis of Zinc Finger proteins in Kenyan women with breast cancer. I love football, Manchester United fan.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
I am a PhD candidate in Grussmayer Lab at TU Delft. I am working on multimodal super-resolution microscopy techniques and the image analysis.
Role in OLS: OLS-1 mentor, expert / OLS-2 expert
Mateusz is Research Software Community Manager at the Netherlands eScience Center. He has background in life sciences and have been working with bioinformatics data analysis and research software engineering. Past few years he has been involved in the Carpentries as an instructor, trainer and mentor (both in the mentoring subcommittee and mentoring teams).
Role in OLS: OLS-6 project lead / OLS-9-DRA mentor
I work as a Research Associate at the University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia. I am a biologist with research experience and skills in different fields of science. I often venture outside biological topics and data, for example, into biomedical, environmental, conservation or even social sciences. In my research I use research synthesis methods, such as systematic reviews/maps and meta-analysis. I am active in a few different Open Science communities (e.g., SORTEE, AIMOS).
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Louie is a registered professional biologist (RPBio) in British Columbia, specializing in freshwater biology. His research focuses on using metatranscriptomics, DNA metabarcoding, and qPCR-based environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis to study population and community dynamics in freshwater ecosystems, with the aim of understanding how these populations respond to both natural and human-induced disturbances. Currently, as a Liber Ero Postdoctoral Fellow at the Helbing Laboratory, University of Victoria, Louie works on projects for the Alberta Oil Sands Monitoring Program and iTrackDNA. In collaboration with First Nations communities, he develops and implements eDNA tools to monitor key species wit
Role in OLS: OLS-2 mentor, project lead
Markus is a PhD student at UCL and he is one of the core developers of sktime, a toolbox for machine learning with time series.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Mmasibidi Setaka is a Digital Humanities Researcher focusing on the Sesotho language at the South African Centre for digital Langauge Resources (SADiLaR), which is hosted at the North-West University. She holds a Masters degree in African Languages from the University of Pretoria, with a focus on lexicography. Her interstests lie in lexicography for the Sesotho language (one of the 12 official languages in South Africa). She is involved in various Digital Humanities activities in South Africa including being part of the excecutive committee of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa.
Role in OLS: OLS-6 project lead
Medical engineering with a passion for neuroscience and biophysics.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Mohammad Alnabhan received the bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science with a specialization in data mining. Currently, he is pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the University of Ottawa, Canada. His major field of study is focused on developing deep learning model for securing social media. He brings a wealth of expertise to his academic pursuits through a diverse range of work experiences. He has been a dedicated part-time Professor with the Computer Science Department, University of Ottawa, since 2022, where he imparts his knowledge and passion for the subject to students. In addition, he has proven his skills as a full-stack Programmer and a Microsoft Certified Trainer Specialist,
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
Social entrepreneur, research, motivational speaker, DIY biologist.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead / OLS-9-CATALYST project lead
I’m Onabajo Monsurat, a dynamic and versatile professional skilled in data science, machine learning engineering, and Python development. I am passionate about utilizing data to conquer challenges in Healthcare, Research, and Open-source fields. I am known for my adaptability, diligence, and dedication. I am recognized for delivering impactful solutions that bring positive results.
Role in OLS: OLS-1 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-9-CATALYST project lead
Full-stack Software Engineer with an interest in developing AI and ML powered mobile and web applications.
Role in OLS: OLS-1 expert
Mariana is a molecular biologist by training and a scientist by heart. Recently, she has been diving into the data science and biostatistics world in the search of contributing to sustainability and digitalization of science. Her expertise are in Epigenetics, genomics, and molecular biology.
Role in OLS:
Resident Fellow
OLS-5 mentor, expert / OLS-6 mentor, project lead, expert
Researcher
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
My name is Tiara, and I am a PhD candidate at Dalhousie University, specializing in biology. My research focuses on using Drosophila melanogaster as a model organism to study exercise-induced muscle damage and repair to unravel the intricate processes involved in muscle repair. Alongside my research, I am passionately committed to enhancing Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (EDIA) within the scientific community by striving to create an inclusive environment that promotes diverse perspectives and equitable opportunities through outreach, advocacy, and science communication.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead / OLS-3 project lead / OLS-5 mentor
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Musanna Galib is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of British Columbia since 2020. Previously, Musanna completed his M.Sc. (2019) and B.Sc. (2017) in Mechanical Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). Musanna’s research interests encompass exploring the core mechanisms that emerge in materials under different conditions using multi-scale modeling and experiments. Currently, Musanna is working on solving the dendrite problem in rechargeable batteries at UBC-Vancouver. This work exists at the intersection of mechanics of materials, materials science, and electrochemical phenomena.
Role in OLS: OLS-1 expert
Marius is a core Galaxy developer since 2015 and working full time on Galaxy since 2019. He has learned programming during my PhD in developmental biology, and quickly shifted towards data analysis and Galaxy development after that
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead / OLS-4 mentor, expert / OLS-5 mentor / OLS-6 expert / OLS-7 mentor, project lead / OLS-8 mentor / OLS-9-CATALYST mentor, expert
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.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Nooshin Noshiri is a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Manitoba, focusing on machine learning and digital agriculture. Her research involves using generative models to address data scarcity in hyperspectral imaging. Nooshin has been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the Mitacs Accelerate Fellowship and the President’s Student Leadership Program scholarship. She has contributed to multiple international publications and has an accepted paper at NeurIPS. Nooshin is also actively engaged in science communication, presenting at the Soapbox Science event and discussing generative AI during Academic Integrity Week. Through her research and outreach, she conti
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
A biohacker in progress
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Nadia Khalili is a Ph.D. candidate in Educational Psychology at McGill University, specializing in the complex interplay between Theory of Mind (ToM) and prosocial behavior in emerging adolescents, for which she received the FRQSC Doctoral Award. She has extensive experience in cross-cultural and longitudinal research, statistical analysis, and open science initiatives. Nadia has been actively involved in Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (EDIA) efforts, including serving as a student representative on multiple committees and contributing to McGill’s Faculty of Education EDI Committee. She also led an institute for teacher training programs in philosophy for children. Nadia has
Role in OLS: OLS-4 project lead / OLS-6 mentor, expert / OLS-8 mentor, expert
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: OLS-8 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead
I’m a PhD student of Argentina, speciallized on structural bioinformatics of proteins. But a part of me still want to work in ecology or enviromental sciences
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
A Phd Student with the university of Buea and a Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement Alumni
Role in OLS: OLS-1 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-6 mentor
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.
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
I am an organizational anthropologist and information scientist addressing the human dimensions of complex social, environmental, and technical problems. I study how we organize to move knowledge to action, bridging the gap between research, policy and practice. Working with multiple stakeholders, my ongoing projects include building adaptive capacity to climate change; developing tools to support knowledge sharing and innovation; and reimagining the scientific and cultural record. In my current role, as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Lethbridge, my work investigates how humanities researchers and heritage professionals are shaping and navigating an emerging humanities data ecosy
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
Background working in NGOs across campaigns, training and skills policy, currently situated in the Turing Institute. I’m passionate about transparency, equity and aim to carry this across my professional and personal life. I love sea swimming and very loud music!
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
Valentia, Honradez y Respeto
Role in OLS: OLS-1 expert / OLS-2 expert
Physicist, Teacher, Mozillian
Role in OLS: OLS-8 expert
Vanessa joined the PREreview team in November 2022 as Community Manager. She works to engage researchers, particularly those early on in their career and from historically marginalised backgrounds, to participate in the open peer review of preprints. Vanessa began her career in academia working at international development organization INASP with a focus on improving access to scholarly information and research in developing countries. She then went on to support publishers around the world as Community Engagement Manager at Crossref building a global ambassador team and collaborating with others to ensure that scholarly research metadata is registered, linked, and distributed.
Role in OLS: OLS-6 project lead / OLS-7 project lead / OLS-8 mentor
Software developer turned researcher, learning how to apply software development practices to research management
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Currently I am a PhD candidate at the department of anatomy and neurosciences. I am researching MRI and pathology outcome measurements of Alzheimer’s disease in human post-mortem tissue, and I enjoy my work immensely. I am also passionate about open science and strongly believe the principles of open science are fundamental for research and the scientific community.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-CATALYST project lead
Capacity Building Enthusiast
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead / OLS-5 project lead
I am trying to be a good molecular biologist. I think that learning new things and sharing them in this field is great.
Role in OLS: OLS-6 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Niloofar Hooman (Ph.D.) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Communication Studies and Media Arts at McMaster University, Canada. She is also completing a joint Graduate Diploma (Ph.D.) in Gender & Social Justice. Niloofar holds a Ph.D. in Communication (2019), an MA in Cultural Studies and the Media (2010), and a BA in Social Communications (2007) from the University of Tehran. Her research encompasses theories of new media, digital culture, digital activism, feminism, and gender, as well as critical studies of marginalized bodies. Niloofar’s doctoral dissertation concentrates on the embodiment, performances of nudity and unveiling as political actions in Iran. Her work has been publi
Role in OLS: OLS-9-CATALYST project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-6 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Nishith Mishra, is a Doctoral Candidate in Space Law, and a Researcher with Faculty of Law, McGill University, having earned his LL.M. (Air and Space Law - Thesis) earlier from here. He also holds his Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts, i.e. B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) – a combined and integrated dual degree from National Law University Delhi, and ‘certificates’ from the Indian Law Institute. He is a professional member of International Institute of Space Law, and is an enrolled advocate since June, 2013, with the Bar Council of India. Prior to joining McGill in 2018, he has also worked as a civil & commercial litigator, and as a private-equity & foreign direct investment as well as a Cross-border
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
A Machine Learning enthusiast willing to learn, share and giving back to the community with soft & tech skills.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 expert
I teach bioinformatics using Galaxy, I teach martial arts, and I hate onions. No seriously, I hate them. With my very soul.
Role in OLS: OLS-6 project lead
More about Nomalungelo Octavia
I am a ready-to-learn glass half full kind of person. I am passionate about transferring knowledge. I believe that as you transfer knowledge
Role in OLS: OLS-2 expert / OLS-3 expert / OLS-8 mentor, project lead
Nicolás se unió a MetaDocencia desde sus inicios en marzo de 2020 y actualmente comparte la coordinación general y es chair del comité asesor. Además es Investigador Adjunto del CONICET y miembro del Grupo de Bioinformática Estructural de la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes en Argentina. Vive con su esposa y su hijo en Buenos Aires.
Role in OLS:
Developer (contract)
OLS-7 project lead / OLS-9-CATALYST expert
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: OLS-1 mentor, expert / OLS-2 mentor, expert / OLS-4 expert
I’ve wandered through science (neuroscience), access to science communication (open access, preprints) and community building. I currently find myself thinking more about how the money flows, who has power and how to dismantle inequitable power structures. I also watch the numbers as treasurer for Dryad (open data).
Role in OLS: OLS-1 expert
Nicola works at the Earlham Institute, where he manages and supports a Galaxy web server to run large-scale analyses in an accessible and reproducible way. He also collaborates on the open source development of the Galaxy platform and its tools. Nicola is a Carpentries Instructor and a Galaxy trainer. He is currently the Technical Coordinator for ELIXIR-UK.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
I am a lecturer and a PhD research student in Agricultural Extension. I am married and mother of three. My areas of interest are Agriculture Extension, Rural Development and Climate change.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-CATALYST project lead
Pan-African , Genomic Scientist
Role in OLS: OLS-6 project lead / OLS-7 mentor / OLS-8 mentor
I enjoy writing code to analyse biological data. Outside that I’m either working at Bioinformatics Hub of Kenya initiative (BHKi), recording my podcast (The Science in Real Life podcast), reading or volunteering in passion projects
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
I am a PhD student at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Currently working of optimizing chemical production from waste .
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead / OLS-6 mentor
A research translator and innovation architect in the life science industry
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Prof. Olufemi Adesope has 28 years experience in teaching, research, community engagement and administration. He has competencies in quantitative and qualitative research.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
JOSEPH CHIMERE ONWUMERE is currently a Professor of Agricultural Economics (with specialization Agribusiness Investment and Management) and a researcher. Onwumere holds a Ph.D. degree in Agribusiness Investment and Management, M.Sc. in Agribusiness Management and B. Agriculture with specialization in Agricultural Economics. Onwumere is an academic staff in a University of Agriculture based in Nigeria and has taught graduates and post graduate students and still teaches.
Role in OLS: OLS-1 expert / OLS-2 expert
Paula is an Open Science advocate her passions are data management, data analytics, research, and diversity. She is a computer scientist who has worked on data intensive bioinformatics and data management. She has also collaborated on community projects such as The Carpentries, rOpenSci, RLadies. Currently she works for the National Imaging Facility in Australia.
Role in OLS: OLS-6 project lead
I am a Bioinformatics scientist who is very passionate about mental health. I am equally passionate about neuroscience and would like to explore research in that field.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-CATALYST project lead
A genomics scientist, enthusiastic about bioinformatics
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
Physics degree, Computer science technician at Milano Bicocca University
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead / OLS-8 mentor
| Software Developer with skills in C# and .NET | Data Analyst with R and SQL | Co-founder of RLadies Rcia-Ctes | Part of Metadocencia + LatinR |
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
I am passionate about genomics, open science and bioinformatics capacity building. Apart from science, I spend most of my free time playing board games.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
I’m a data engineer for research intelligence with a background in computational linguistics and a PhD in cognitive hearing science. I also teach the Software Carpentries.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-2 expert
Paul is group Leader in Machine Leader and Developmental Biology at the Turing Center for Living Systems in Marseille (France). He is leading the open science project “the digital embryo atlas” and was several times mentor in Mozilla Open Leadership’’s program.
Role in OLS:
Community Researcher & Programme Coordinator (contract)
OLS-5 organizer / OLS-6 organizer / OLS-7 organizer / OLS-8 organizer
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: OLS-8 project lead, expert
Political scientist (University of Buenos Aires) with a MS in Educational Policy (UTDT). Project and Course Development Manager at MetaDocencia. Postgraduate teaching assistant and researcher.
I am an Early Stage Researcher focused on developing and applying novel statistical and machine learning methods for studying human health and disease. I prefer to invest my time in science communication, open science, reproducibility, and community building.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead / OLS-4 mentor
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead
I am a confident writer/graphic designer, and I am looking forward to machine learning abd artificial intelligence
Role in OLS: OLS-6 project lead / OLS-8 mentor, expert / OLS-9-DRA mentor
I am a nuclear physicist in ‘an environmentalist body’.
Role in OLS:
Chief of Staff
OLS-1 mentor, expert / OLS-2 mentor, expert / OLS-5 mentor, expert / OLS-6 expert / OLS-7 mentor
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: OLS-5 project lead
22 years old and Bachelor in Bioengineering. I like strawberries, plants, arthropods, space and genetic modifications. Future Biohacker but not like the ones on Netflix.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
I’m a Brazilian cognitive neuroscientist studying the neural architecture and dynamics of human intelligence, with a focus on elementary mathematics. I live in San Francisco and I love music, art, photography, cooking, nature and endurance sports.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 mentor / OLS-3 mentor, expert
I am a scientific training officer at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) where I mainly coordinate and support training in Latin America via the CABANA project (https://cabana.online/). My background lies in structural biology and biomedical sciences, and I am passionate about science communication, equity and inclusion.
Role in OLS: OLS-6 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead / OLS-8 mentor / OLS-9-DRA mentor
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
Microbiology Researcher from Nepal struggling to create next generation scientists from rural Nepal.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead, mentor, expert
A Systems Biologist with wide interests in the areas on functional genomics, protein informatics and interactions. *Principal Investigator for four or more projects coalescing keywords #HypotheticalProteins #VitaminK #LncRNAs #ProstateCancer *Founder of Bioclues.org, India’s largest bioinformatics society working for mentor-mentee relationships since 2005. *Advocate #OpenAcess and #OpenSource
Role in OLS: OLS-4 project lead
I’m a young degree student passionate for learning. The world that sourrounds us intrigues me and it never stops surprising me a little more every day. In my free time I love reading, skateboarding, playing futbol, studying languages like french ( <3 ) and hanging out with my friends. I’m looking forward to meeting you!
Role in OLS: OLS-3 expert
I trained as an Agronomist / Molecular Biologist before switching to Bioinformatics when joining EMBL-EBI and the ArrayExpress database. There I build up expertise in data management for functional genomics data (transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics). I lead on the ISA project (https://isa-tools.org), a syntax for holding such data and STATO, an ontology for statistics. I am also involved in Data FAIRification (via FAIRsharing.org) and IMI FAIRplus, for which I coordinate the development of the FAIR cookbook (https://fairplus.github.io/the-fair-cookbook)
Role in OLS: OLS-1 expert / OLS-2 expert / OLS-3 expert / OLS-4 expert / OLS-6 expert / OLS-8 expert
Former university professor and researcher. IT specialist for R&D in bioinformatics. Wikipedian and open culture enthusiast.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead / OLS-6 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-6 project lead
First-year PhD student with research interest in the interface of optics and biology
Role in OLS: OLS-1 expert / OLS-2 expert / OLS-3 expert
Rachael is the Research Software Community Manager for the Software Sustainability Institute and Open Research advocate at the University of Manchester. She is passionate about openness, transparency, reproducibility, wellbeing and inclusion in research. She was a project lead in Round 4 and Mentor and Cohort Host in Round 5 of Mozilla Open Leaders, and organises a women in data meetup group in Manchester called HER+Data MCR.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
I am the community manager for the “AI for Science and Government” research programme at The Alan Turing Institute, with a background as a science writer communicating high-energy particle physics.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 expert
I’m a Technology Manager at Wellcome, a Research Associate at Imperial College London, and a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Kaiserslautern. I have a PhD in Statistics (specifically ML for survival analysis) from UCL and gained experience in mathematical modelling from working in Prof. Neil Ferguson’s COVID response team.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-CATALYST project lead
I am a researcher and professor at the University of Costa Rica. We study the human microbiome in babies and mothers. I am also the coordinator of CABANAnet.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-2 mentor, expert
Raniere is a PhD student at Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health, City University of Hong Kong. He worked with the Software Sustainability Institute in the UK as community officer.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead / OLS-9-DRA mentor
I studied chemistry and biotechnology, and worked in research data mangement and FAIR data. I am a father of two, and as a hobby project I co-create a database on apparent equilibrium constants of enzyme-catalyzed reactions, called openTECR. Happy to meet you!
Role in OLS: OLS-6 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Fostering a hybrid space to build community, capacity and share knowledge, facilitated through a Discord server, leveraging biweekly community forums, virtual “happy hour” and roundtables, engaging EDIA champions and participants in structured, supportive interactions to enhance DRI knowledge and community building.
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead / OLS-8 expert
Role in OLS: OLS-7 mentor / OLS-8 mentor / OLS-9-DRA mentor
Riva is a Linguist that uses computational techniques to explore how language use changes. She is an editor at Programming Historian, a Software Sustainability Institute Fellow, and a member of the RLadies Global Leadership Team.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
I am a PhD student in Canada. My research seeks to implement, examine, and evaluate the representation of nitrogen cycling and different formulations of reactive nitrogen gas emissions from wildfires in Earth System Models, and explore how these reactive nitrogen gas emissions and their feedbacks to climate change will evolve over the 21st century.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
I’m a physiotherapist working in the private sector in South Africa.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
I am a semi retired independent researcher looking into the palaeoecology and palaeogeography of West Cork in Ireland. I have degrees in Geology, Geography and Archaeology. I am committed to the ideals of Open Science.
Role in OLS: OLS-1 mentor
Software Engineering Student at University of Brasilia, open source developer, python programmer, functional languages lover!
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Communication; Human Resources Management; Education
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-6 project lead
I’m a PhD student in Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and currently I’m evaluating the impact of deforestation in multiple facets of stream fish diversity. Besides my research
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-2 expert
A biodiversity scientist who wants to liberate research from the constraints imposed by paywalls & PDFs. Also a Lubuntu user and Software Sustainability Fellow (2016 Inauguration).
Role in OLS: OLS-7 mentor
Radhika is the training director at the bioinformatics core at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health - they run regular workshops to enable wet lab biologists to perform analysis on NGS data using best practices (including FAIR data practices). Her doctoral training is in the wet lab, but she transitioned to dry lab work in 2009 and landed in an environment (thankfully) that was focused on open science and open data.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Ruben is a working on a master’s thesis that examines equity in the usability of health technologies. He is housed in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-6 project lead
i am currently a mentee in the ols-6 batch. i am familiar with developing resources for open science community activities.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-1 project lead / OLS-2 mentor
While completing his PhD in cognitive neuroscience at the Université de Montréal, Samuel organizes training events to equip his peers to make science more robust, accessible, and inclusive to all. He is the cofounder of Open Science UMontreal, an initiative that aims to facilitate the transition to a more open and transparent way of doing science.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead / OLS-3 expert
Sam is a PhD Student at the UCL Data Intensive Science CDT. Hi is an OLS-2 graduate and works on the ATLAS experiment at CERN.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
I am a second-year PhD student in Computational and Theoretical Chemistry at McMaster University. My research focuses on developing new algorithms which model many-body interactions for electronic systems.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
Biohacker
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead
Personne très attentive, travailleuse et ayant un esprit critique poussé.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Sana Sharif is a graduate student with a focus on digital advanced wireless communication systems, particularly in the areas of semantic communication and 6G networks. Her research includes energy consumption minimization in semantic communication systems and resource optimization in wireless networks. Sana is passionate about advancing knowledge and technology, with a strong commitment to increasing awareness of AI and digital research infrastructure among underrepresented groups.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
After a PhD and several years in Cancer Research I am devoted now to promote and manage international research in La Paz University Hospital.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 expert / OLS-5 expert
I am biologist. I worked with fungal genomics during my master and doctorate projects. Over my career, I organized several workshops for teaching programming skills to bioscientists, including the Brazilian Python Workshop for Biological Data. This year (2022), I will be an Ambassador in the eLife Community Ambassadors program.
Role in OLS: OLS-6 expert
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.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
I have a background in educational resource design and development, and a keen interest in exploring how to make online learning experiences as engaging as possible.
Role in OLS: OLS-4 project lead / OLS-6 project lead / OLS-7 mentor / OLS-8 mentor / OLS-9-DRA mentor
Saranjeet is a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute’s 2023 Inauguration. She has a Masters degree in Statistics from University of Pune and is a Technical Writer of the R Development Guide. Throughout her career, she’s been involved with a number of software engineering communities and has been selected in open source programs like Google Summer of Code 2020, Digital Infrastructure Incubator 2021 by Code for Science and Society, Google Season of Docs 2022, and a Subject Matter Expert for the Open Science Tools and Resources Module of NASA TOPS. In 2021, she participated in the Open Life Science program (cohort-4), during which she co-founded the Research Software Engineering (RSE
Role in OLS: OLS-4 project lead / OLS-5 mentor / OLS-6 mentor, expert / OLS-7 mentor / OLS-8 mentor, expert / OLS-9-DRA mentor
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 :)
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
Currently, I am a Research Assistant for the “Co-Creating Culturally Appropriate Research Ethics” (CARE) project at Nazarbayev University. I am also a Frictionless Data for Reproducible Research Fellow and interdisciplinary human rights researcher. For the last nine years of my research, I have studied such topics as gender, sexuality, nationalism/racism, disability, mental health issues, and epistemic (in)justice - mainly through the lenses of post/decolonial, critical pedagogical, feminist, and indigenous theories.
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead
Trying to disentangle the soil and water relationship
Role in OLS: OLS-1 expert
Venkata is a Bioinformatician, a Senior Researcher at Bioinformatics core facility, and Deputy Head of the BioMedical Informatics Department, LCSB, University of Luxembourg. He is also Technical Coordinator (TeC) of ELIXIR-Luxembourg Node and CTO & Co-founder ITTM S.A. Luxembourg. He has around two decades of working experience in various bioinformatics fields including Data Integration and Knowledge Management; Clinical and Translational Data Curation, Harmonisation, Integration and Analysis; Dynamic Visual Analytics; Text-mining; Deep learning and advanced machine learning technologies.
Role in OLS: OLS-4 project lead / OLS-5 mentor / OLS-6 expert / OLS-7 mentor / OLS-8 mentor
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.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 mentor, expert
David is a “self-designated” Data Plumber from Ghana working to build technical and data capacity for low-income individuals, organisations and communities. His background is in Biology and Computer Science and has worked with journalists, advocacy organisations, research institutions, government officials and private businesses in over 30 countries across 5 continents. Currently, he leads data research at Growing Gold Farms, a food startup in Tema, Ghana.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-CATALYST mentor
I am a young researcher and freelance data scientist with a diverse background in Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics. Being passionate about open science, I contribute to various research and software development communities, advocating for open-source practices and fostering collaboration across different fields.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-4 expert / OLS-5 mentor, expert / OLS-6 mentor, expert / OLS-8 mentor
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).
Role in OLS: OLS-3 expert
Serah Rono is a computer scientist and writer with a knack and deep seated interest in web development and accessibility, all things open and tech community organising. Serah is currently the Director of Community at The Carpentries.
Role in OLS:
Resident Fellow
OLS-7 project lead / OLS-8 expert / OLS-9-CATALYST project lead
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.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 mentor, expert / OLS-3 project lead, mentor, expert
Sarah Gibson is a Research Software Engineer at the Alan Turing Institute where she helps solve real-world problems with cutting-edge techniques across academia, industry and the public sector. She is also a passionate open source contributor, primarily working with Project Binder to serve reproducible computational environments in the cloud around the world. On top of all that, she also promotes software best practices and reproducible workflows through her Fellowship with the Software Sustainability Institute.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
I am currently a Ph.D. student in Biomedical Engineering at University of Toronto. My primary research focus is on developing a mobile application that leverages deep learning techniques to prevent slips and falls. My work aims to improve safety by assessing footwear slip resistance and environmental factors to reduce injury risks. In addition to my technical research, I am deeply committed to integrating principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) into my work. I strive to ensure that my research addresses the needs of diverse populations, particularly underrepresented groups, by designing accessible solutions that account for various cultural, socioeconomic, and physical differenc
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
I am PhD candidate in computer science at University of Porto, Portugal. I am also faculty staff at Bayero University, Kano- Nigeria.
I am a fourth-year integrated Ph.D. student in IISER Bhopal. My interest in inverse problems is related to partial differential equations, which have broad applications in biomedical imaging.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA mentor
We are focusing on helping distributed and interdisciplinary software teams to collaborate more efficiently and build high-quality software systems, especially in the context of modern open-source collaboration forms, fork-based development, and interdisciplinary teams when building AI-enabled systems or scientific software. We also apply software engineering best practices to facilitate better collaborative Computer-Aided Design (CAD).
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA mentor
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Je suis un professionnel de la santé publique. Mon expertise consiste à étudier et développer des stratégies innovatrices pour résoudre les problèmes de santé à l’échelle de la population, avec un intérêt particulier pour la promotion de la santé. Mon travail se concentre essentiellement sur l’impact positif de l’approche participative des communautés dans la résolution des inégalités sociales en matière de santé. Mon projet consistera à une mobilisation de la communauté des étudiants et étudiantes originaires d’Afrique subsaharienne et des Caraïbes. L’objectif est de maximiser leur implication à travers un programme de formation sur la gestion des données de recherche en utilisant les outil
Role in OLS: OLS-1 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
Synthetic Biology enthusiast, brit, cat dad, motivator and baker with a sweet tooth.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
I received my PhD in Neurolinguistics from Northwestern University under the supervision of Dr. Cynthia K. Thompson and completed postdoctoral training in cognitive neuroscience under the supervision of Dr. Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) - Memory and Aging Center. My neurobiology of language and behavior (NoLaB) lab focuses on the two lines of research: the neurocognitive correlates of the lexical system and its relation with emotions and other cognitive systems.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead / OLS-7 mentor / OLS-9-DRA mentor
I have a Ph.D. in Biology (neuroscience) where I acquired diverse tools for data analysis and Open Science. In the last years, I became interested in the impact of new technologies and their ethical implications in Public Health
Role in OLS: OLS-6 mentor / OLS-7 project lead / OLS-8 mentor
I am a DPhil Student studying computational neuroscience, and with a keen interest in investigating bias and fairness in AI models
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead / OLS-3 mentor, expert / OLS-4 expert / OLS-5 mentor
Lifelong developmental geneticist with interest in synthetic biology and creating open domain tools for research
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Shayan is a second-year Master’s student in the Translational Research Program at the University of Toronto. He is a recent graduate of the Bachelor of Health Science Program at McMaster University. Shayan is the recipient of the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS; 2023-2024 competition year) and Canada Graduate Scholarship - Master’s (CGS-M; 2024-2025 competition year). Following his passion for promoting BIPoC-2S/LGBTQ+ health, Shayan is a fellow at the CIHR 2S/LGBTQ+ Health Hub. He is also a sessional instructor at the Bachelor of Health Science Program and a research lead in the Faculty of Health Sciences. Shayan is interested in improving HIV/AIDS treatments through system-level change
Role in OLS: OLS-2 expert
Swedish-born computational biologist, since 2018 heading systems medicine (host-microbiome focus, ‘association hunting’) lab in Berlin, interested in too many things. AMR, metabolic/inflammatory/cardiovascular diseases, drug-microbiome interactions, confounder analysis, gene family evolution. Queer, transgender woman and intersectional feminist.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Soorena Azarhazin is a PhD candidate in the Biotechnology program at Lakehead University starting September 2022. He received his BSc and MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the Sharif University of Technology and the University of Tehran, respectively. His research field is currently relevant to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), numerical simulation of thermo-fluids processes, and flow control.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead / OLS-7 project lead
I’m a visual and circadian neuroscientist interested in how light affects our physiology and behaviour. I’m also passionate about improving science.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Stacey Koornneef is a PhD student in computer science at Ontario Tech University. She enjoys teaching and researching the connection between humans and technology from an education perspective.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-3 expert / OLS-5 expert
I’m a tech community manager and reformed research scientist who can never resist connecting people, sharing knowledge, and helping people recognize the value they bring to a project. I am actively involved with the Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement as one of the inaugural Community Engagement Fellows, a mentor, and member. My research life involved bacteria, plants, insects, and mammals, first at the bench and then on a laptop. I was rOpenSci’s Community Manager from 2016 to 2022.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Steve is a PhD student at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.
Role in OLS: OLS-1 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
I am an interdisciplinary researcher developing robust, scalable, computational models for mechanistic problems such as acoustic and earthquake wave propagation, geospatial infectious disease spread, flow through porous media etc. or purely data-driven problems such as diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease from MRI, time-series forecasting etc. These models are capable of providing reliable predictions with quantified uncertainty (coming from noise in the data or assumptions of the model) using Bayesian algorithms and industrial level scaling enabled by high performance computing (both CPUs and GPUs).
Role in OLS: OLS-9-CATALYST project lead
On A Journey
Role in OLS: OLS-6 project lead
I want to bring love into academia
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead / OLS-3 expert
I’m a biologist interested in many fields of biodiversity, especially about patterns of distribution in time/space and why. I’m also really interested in open science, softwares and databases to work in biodiversity and of course good workflows 🤓. I’m happy when I exchange knowledge and help others 🙃 .
Role in OLS:
Programme Manager & Catalyst (contract)
OLS-8 mentor / OLS-9-CATALYST mentor, organizer
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
I am a Medical Demographer with teaching and research experience. I am passionate about using data to solve public health challenges and also supporting women researchers with data management tools and skills that will enhance equal access to participation in research programs.
Role in OLS: OLS-6 expert
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)
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
I’m a former philosopher and data scientist, now a co-PI at DTU Biosustain. I like statistical programming, odes and biochemical thermodynamics
Role in OLS: OLS-5 expert
I practice where I am from which is the MX/TX border the centres a politics of collective action and care.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
I am Teresa, a PhD student in the Backofen lab at the University of Freiburg. My PhD is in RNA bioinformatics where I do data analysis, tool improvement and benchmarking. Apart form this, I am part of the Street Science Community, a scientific outreach group in Freiburg.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Azam Dashti Khavidaki is a PhD student, FRQSC scholar, and fellow at the Participatory Cultures Lab in the Education Department at McGill University. As a female student from Iran, she earned her first master’s degree in English literature from a top-rank university in Iran and her second in Education from McGill University. Through her experimentation with various methodologies, theories, and schools of thought, she views her research as a space for interdisciplinary exploration. She has taught professionally for over a decade at various levels, including as a lecturer in higher education. She has published papers and presented at conferences on topics such as representation and perception
Role in OLS: OLS-4 project lead / OLS-5 project lead
Rika, a 4th year undergraduate student in Bengaluru India majoring in Electronics and Communication. She is currently pursuing her project work at RRSC ISRO and is passionate about women in stem and space. She started WOAA India in 2020.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 expert / OLS-3 expert / OLS-4 expert
Julieta Arancio is a postdoctoral researcher at Drexel University (US) & the University of Bath (UK), and an associate researcher at CENIT-UNSAM in Argentina. Her research focuses on social studies of open hardware, in particular for democratization of the production of science and technology. She is a co-organizer at reGOSH, the Latin America open science hardware network, and 1/3 of the mentorship program Open Hardware Makers.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 expert
Biotechnician turned bioinformatician turned animal scientist trying to standardise workflows using Galaxy
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead / OLS-3 mentor
Role in OLS: OLS-2 mentor, expert / OLS-4 mentor, expert
Dave coordinates training and outreach for the Galaxy Project. He has been a community person in life sciences for 13 years. Before that he worked in biological databases for 7 years. His training is in Computer Science, with an emphasis on databases.
Role in OLS: OLS-1 mentor / OLS-2 expert / OLS-3 mentor, expert / OLS-6 expert
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.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Tori was born and raised in a small village near Amsterdam called Halfweg. She finished both her B.Sc. and M.Sc. Chemistry at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the University of Amsterdam. In 2022, she obtained her M.Sc. in Molecular Sciences with a thesis focusing on how Lewis acids catalyze Friedel-Crafts reactions, supervised by dr. Pascal Vermeeren. Currently, she is further developing herself in the world of Computational Chemistry as Computational Chemistry Lab and System Manager. Toward her goal of mastering the many aspects of this world, she tries to create a clear line with clear communication and the renewal of her knowledge. In this way, she tries to inspire and learn things n
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Fatou is an accessibility professional, pursuing a Master’s degree in Information Studies (MIS). Her involvement in various roles has allowed her to contribute significantly to the academic and practical understanding of accessibility. Serving on technical committees and boards, such as the Accessible Travel Journey Technical Committee for Accessibility Standards Canada and Association pour l’intégration sociale d’Ottawa, she has actively contributed to setting standards and advocating for the integration and support of individuals with disabilities. These involvements reflect her commitment to social change and the betterment of community welfare through collective effort and governance.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-2 mentor, expert / OLS-3 mentor, expert
Sonika has a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics and over 15 y of work experience in academia & industry. She is currently Bioinformatics senior lecturer and research group head at Monash University Melbourne, Australia. Her expertise is in developing novel Bioinformatics and machine learning methods and applying them to solve biological research questions. In the past, she has worked in collaboration with the Australian bioinformatics network and EMBL-EBI on developing and delivering bioinformatics workshops for biologists and bioinformaticians.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Ugo is Nigerian-Canadian PhD student at Simon Fraser University studying solvent effects in electrochemical nitrate reduction. He holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and University of Calgary. In addition to research, Ugo is passionate about free and open-source software and increasing its prevalence in the computational chemistry community.
Role in OLS: OLS-3 project lead
A researcher, motivational speaker
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead / OLS-8 mentor / OLS-9-DRA mentor
AI Governance and Ethics Consultant, LGBTQIA+ Advocate, Researcher with Open Science, Policy Consultant, Teacher & Mentor, Constantly Queering AI & Internet Governance and Digital Cooperation expert.
Role in OLS: OLS-1 mentor, project lead, expert / OLS-2 mentor, expert / OLS-3 mentor, expert / OLS-4 mentor, expert / OLS-5 mentor
Renato is a computational biologist with a background in evolution, genomics and the microbiome. Currently project and community manager of the EMBL Bio-IT project, supporting the local bio-computational community through training, consulting and core resources. Open-source and scientific reproducibility advocate. When not tanning in front of a screen you may find him wandering the green and blue in Nature.
Role in OLS: OLS-6 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead
I’m a biologist, currently interested in climate change and neuroscience
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
Valentina Borghesani, Ph.D., is an Italian cognitive neuroscientist currently working as senior postdoctoral researcher within the CNeuroMod project at the Psychology Department of the Université de Montreal. Her research focuses on the neuro-cognitive correlates of semantic knowledge which she investigates with both neuroimaging techniques (fMRI, MEG) and neuropsychological data. She deeply cares (and is very active in) bridging neuroscience & ethics, community, diversity, environment, and the arts. After a PhD in France and postdocs in California and Quebec, Valentina is starting as an Assistant Professor at the University of Geneva in September 2022.
Role in OLS: OLS-2 expert
Veronika’’s research area is machine learning in medical imaging. She is an now assistant professor but will be leaving her position soon. She is blogging about this and other academia-related topics on her website veronikach.com
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead / OLS-8 mentor
Soy antropóloga, Mag. en Ciencias Políticas y Dra. en Ciencias Sociales. Trabajo con equipos interdisciplinarios de investigación y de intervención (investigación/acción), últimamente en temáticas de datos y salud (con el proyecto ARPHAI), pero también en ciencia abierta, software libre y gobierno abierto con mirada crítica. Difruto de trabajar en equipos donde todo/as aprendemos de todo/as. :)
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
Vicky Hellon is currently a community manager based at the Turing Institute, working on the Turing-Roche partnership. She has a BSc in Biomedical Science from the University of Sheffield and previously worked for Health Data Research UK and in Open Access Publishing roles at Springer Nature and F1000Research.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
I’m a very curious person who enjoy teaching and learning. My personal interests are very varied, from science, education and health to plant-based cooking, gardening and composting. Since my PhD project I have worked on different data projects and on the way I discovered I’m particularly interested in data visualization. I feel particularly motivated by projects with socio-environmental impact.
Role in OLS: OLS-1 mentor, expert / OLS-2 expert
Vicky has a PhD in Bioinformatics and an MPhil in Monitoring and Evaluation. Her research experience (qualitative and quantitative) spans Genomics and Public Health. She is currently a Project Coordinator for the Sickle Africa Data Coordinating Center at the University of Cape Town. She also coordinates several other groups and projects including the African Genomic Medicine Training Initiative (AGMT), Sickle Cell Disease Ontology Working Group (SCDO) and mGenAfrica. She is the current secretary of the African Society of Human Genetics (AfSHG). She is passionate about building research capacity, mentoring young investigators and translational research.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
I am currently finishing a PhD in cosmology at McGill University. I have also been teaching mathematics and physics college courses, as part of various new initiatives to further higher education in Indigenous communities in northern Canada.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
I am a PhD from the University of Buenos Aires interested in everything related to marine sciences and data visualization and open science.
Role in OLS: OLS-9-DRA project lead
I am a master’s student at McGill with a research focus on breast cancer and the tumour microenvironment. I am passionate about improving accessibility in science, especially for historically marginalized and underrepresented populations.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-2 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead / OLS-9-DRA mentor
Derek Moore is an independent educational technologist (ed techie) and critical learning designer. He believes in open education resources (OER) and where he can, he licenses his work openly. Derek is also interested in exploring “open education practices” (OEP) to develop digital capacity.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-4 project lead
A lifelong learner who turned two hobbies into careers (paper engineering and software engineering), and I want to do it for a third time. I am interested finding ways to combine my interest in science, software development, and public outreach in order to create opportunities for people to get involved in STEM regardless of their background or age.
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-9-CATALYST project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-7 project lead
Molecular Epidemiologist pasionated by public health relevant studies, open science and knowledge transfert
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
I love working on building programs that directly help my colleagues in chemistry. I am very excited to work with OLS to bring our tools to a wider userbase.
Role in OLS: OLS-8 project lead
Project Manager at the Open Bioeconomy Lab, Community Manager/Coordinator for Reclone.org (the Reagent Collaboration Network), Co-Founder of the London SynBio Network, iGEM Human Practices Committee Member, CSCCE Community Member, budding learner of open science/research practices
Role in OLS:
Executive Director, Business and Development Lead
OLS-1 mentor, organizer / OLS-2 mentor, expert, organizer / OLS-3 mentor, expert, organizer / OLS-4 mentor, organizer / OLS-5 mentor, organizer / OLS-6 mentor, organizer / OLS-7 mentor, organizer / OLS-8 organizer / OLS-9-CATALYST expert, organizer / OLS-9-DRA organizer
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: OLS-9-DRA project lead
Yuwei Cao is a Geo-information engineer with a specialized focus on remote sensing data and point cloud data understanding. She earned her PhD from Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Her research interests are deeply rooted in 3D vision, with a particular emphasis on Levels of Detail (LoDs) models, 3D point cloud semantic segmentation, 3D feature learning, and 3D reconstruction. Her work aims to advance the field by developing sophisticated methods for interpreting and utilizing 3D spatial data. Yuwei utilizes LIDAR and other remote sensing data to assess stand species composition in the IRSS lab at the University of British Columbia (UBC). This innovative approach will enhance the precision and
Role in OLS: OLS-2 mentor, expert / OLS-3 mentor, expert / OLS-4 mentor
Yvan is data management and analysis lover, for life science, health and environment
Role in OLS: OLS-9-CATALYST project lead
Am a Biotechnologist and computational biologist with a special focus on bioinformatics, molecular biology, and genomics. His research interests are in designing and production of small therapeutic proteins, pharmacogenomics, applied genomics and bioinformatics. Zedias is a certified Data carpentries instructor and one of the lead members of the applied bioinformatics team in Zimbabwe tasked at raising awareness and applying bioinformatics to produce products.
Role in OLS: OLS-5 project lead
Role in OLS: OLS-1 mentor / OLS-2 expert
A mentor for many previous waves of open leaders, who is currently studying for their PhD at UCL.