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Purpose: Training for early stage researchers and young leaders interested in furthering their Open Science skills
Outcome: Ambassadors for Open Science practice, training and education across multiple European and international bioinformatics communities.
Process: A 16-week mentoring & training program, based on the Mozilla Open Leader program, helping participants in becoming Open Science ambassadors by using three principles:
The vision of Open Life Science program is to strengthen Open Science skills for early stage researchers and young leaders in life science.
At the end of the program, our participants will be able to:
OLS’s third cohort (OLS-3) will be conducted from February to May 2021.
December 1, 2021: Opening of the applications on Easychair
We have templates you can download to use when preparing your application.
During the program,
Organizers will inform participants of the week schedule by email.
Week | Call | Date | Topic | Agenda |
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Week 01: February 8-12, 2021 | Mentor-Mentee | Meet your mentor! | Meet each other and discuss your personal motivation, expectations, working practices and project goals | |
Mentors | February 8, 2021 (18:30 European Time) | Mentor training | ||
Mentors | February 9, 2021 (15:00 European Time) | Mentor training | ||
Week 02: February 15-19, 2021 | Cohort | February 17, 2021 (13:30 European Time) | Welcome to Open Life Science! | Meet other members of your cohort, Share project vision, Intro to working openly (open canvas) |
Week 03: February 22-26, 2021 | Mentors | February 22, 2021 (10:00 European Time) | Mentoring workshop | |
Mentors | February 23, 2021 (18:00 European Time) | Mentoring workshop | ||
Mentor-Mentee | Meet your mentor! | Discuss assignments from the cohort call & concrete implementations | ||
Coworking | February 24, 2021 (18:00 European Time) | Open office hour, coworking on assignments, knowledge exchange and networking | ||
Week 04: March 1-5, 2021 | Cohort | Tooling and roadmapping for Open projects | Working with GitHub as a community hub: Markdown as a tool to make websites, Licence, Goals and Roadmap, Contributors, Code of Conduct | |
Week 05: March 8-12, 2021 | Mentor-Mentee | Meet your mentor! | ||
Coworking | Coworking on assignments, knowledge exchange and networking | |||
Cohort | Skill-up: GitHub tutorial for beginners | |||
Week 06: March 15-19, 2021 | Cohort | Open Science I: Project Development | Developing Open Projects: Iterative and agile project management, Open- Source, Software, Hardware, Data | |
Week 07: March 22-26, 2021 | Mentor-Mentee | Meet your mentor! | ||
Coworking | Coworking on assignments, knowledge exchange and networking | |||
Mentors | Mentor training | |||
Week 08: March 29 - April 2, 2021 | Cohort | Open Science II: Knowledge Dissemination | Sharing Open Project: Preprint publications, DOI and citation, Open protocols, Open Education & Training | |
Week 09: April 5-9, 2021 | Mentor-Mentee | Meet your mentor! | ||
Coworking | Coworking on assignments, knowledge exchange and networking | |||
Cohort | Skill-up: Personal Ecology and Ally Skills | |||
Week 10: April 12-16, 2021 | Cohort | Open Science III: Next steps - applying FAIR research principles | FAIRification of existing or mature projects, etc | |
Week 11: April 19-23, 2021 | Mentor-Mentee | Meet your mentor! | ||
Coworking | Coworking on assignments, knowledge exchange and networking | |||
Week 12: April 26-30, 2021 | Cohort | Open Leadership: Academia, industry and beyond! | ||
Week 13: May 3-7, 2021 | Mentor-Mentee | Meet your mentor! | ||
Cohort | Skill-up: Creative writing and storytelling workshop, followed by 30 minutes open agenda discussion | |||
Week 14: May 10-14, 2021 | Cohort | Designing & Empowering for inclusivity | Personas and pathways for contributors, Implicit bias & Community interactions | |
Week 15: May 17-21, 2021 | Mentor-Mentee | Meet your mentor! | Preparation for the final demos | |
Cohort | Final presentation rehearsal - Group 1 | |||
Cohort | Final presentation rehearsal - Group 2 | |||
Week 16: May 24-28, 2021 | Cohort | Final presentations & Graduation! - Group 1 | 5-minute demos of projects (Audience: entire community & public, Open and recorded call) | |
Cohort | Final presentations & Graduation! - Group 2 | 5-minute demos of projects (Audience: entire community & public, Open and recorded call) | ||
Mentors | Mentor wrap up |
Participants join this program with a project that they either are already working on or want to develop during this program. More details about the role of a project lead (mentee) can be found here.
For the third round of the Open Life Science program, we welcome 65 participants with 37 projects.
Our project leads are supported in this program by our mentor-community who are paired based on the compatibility of expertise, interests and requirements of their projects. Our mentors are Open Science practitioners and champions with previous experiences in training and mentoring. They are currently working in different professions in data science, publishing, community building, software development, clinical studies, industries, scientific training and IT services.
Mentors advise and inspire
We thank the 34 mentors this round.
Bioinformatics PhD student in the Edward Wallace Lab at the University of Edinburgh. Researching how yeast transcriptomes are regulated in response to stress. Alumnus of the eLife Innovation Leaders program and strong proponent of open and reproducible science.
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. She is currently formally involved in two projects: 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) Surveying Open Data Practices in 8 African countries, funded by the IDRC.
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.
Beth is a research consultant and social scientist. She helps technologists, designers and scientists work with human-centered data. She is the founder of Open Post Academics (formerly the Athenas), an online peer-support network for people with a Ph.D. who have left or are considering leaving academia. She is a storyteller and a writer with the Pushcart Prize nomination. She lives in Portland, Oregon and in her free time enjoys spinning yarn, knitting, aerial silks and travel.
Bérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. Bérénice is also passionate about training, regularly giving workshops (data analysis, tool development, etc). She started and still co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project. She is a co-deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI, and a founder of Street Science Community, an outreach program.
Bruno is a Brazilian ecologist working on a more collaborative and open science.
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.
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.
I’m an Open Archaeobotanist specialising in phytolith research. I’m currently working on building a community of open scientists in my field to address issues such as data sharing, FAIR data, open access and upskilling researchers in open science skills. I’m also working as a Community Manager at the Alan Turing Institute on the DECOVID project and I am an contributor to The Turing Way.
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.
A researcher, doing a little bit of bioinformatics, a dash of machine learning, and a lot of Open Science.
A Bioinformatician, who strongly believe in constant learning, collaboration, and team work.
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.
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).
Jez is Data Services Lead in The British Library’s Research Infrastructure Services team. He has over 8 years of experience developing and delivering research data management services and strategies at research-intensive higher education institutions in the UK, as part of a long-term goal to help communicate and collaborate more effectively using technology. He is an experienced teacher and is involved with The Carpentries as a Certified Instructor and early contributor to Library Carpentry. He is particularly interested in elevating the status of research software alongside research data in the scholarly record, and helping researchers develop the skills to make the most of this. He is a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, 2020 intake.
I am a recovering academic researcher (in evolutionary biology), who is currently occupied with the use and development of web-based applications, using tech to make processes efficient and reproducible, and growing the Open Innovation in Life Sciences association to promote open science among early career researchers in Switzerland. In my spare time, I watch a lot of Netflix (i.e., crime dramas, sci-fi, RPDR) and go on long walks with my family in the Swiss countryside.
I am a research associate focused on reducing the energy demand of existing housing. I am passionate about making research, tools, code and data open access, where ethical. As a recent graduate of OLS-2, I continue to learn in this space.
I am an EANBiT scholar from Pwani University with an MSc in Bioinformatics. I have developed a keen interest in immune-informatics, genomics and developing workflow management systems to enhance reproducible and scalable data analysis. I am a certified software carpentry instructor and an Open Life Science (OLS), graduate.
Laura is a PhD candidate at the University of Essex, researching the use of data assemblages in the public sector in England. Before this, she worked for almost a decade as a researcher at Amnesty International, focusing on gender, women’s rights, and LGBTI rights. She believes in research as a means to an end: to building a better world for everyone.
I am a tenured adjunct researcher leading a health data science group. I also work to improve data analysis teaching and practice. One of the roles I enjoy most is mentoring and teaching others. I am a trainer and instructor for The Carpentries. In 2020, I co-founded MetaDocencia, an open, collaborative, and Spanish-speaking education community.
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.
Mallory is a Project Lead at 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.
Malvika Sharan is the community manager of _The Turing Way- at The Alan Turing Institute. Malvika works with its community of diverse members to develop resources and ways that can make data science accessible for a wider audience. Malvika has a PhD in Bioinformatics and she worked at European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany, that helped her solidify her values as an Open Researcher and community builder. She is a co-founder of the Open Life Science program, a fellow of Software Sustainability Institute, a board member of Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a contributing member of The Carpentries community.’
A designer and open source advocate with experience building on and offline communities in open government and health and life sciences
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 (http://cabana.online/). My background lies in structural biology and biomedical sciences, and I am passionate about science communication, equity and inclusion.
I am a Senior Scientist in Systems Biology at Birla Institute of Scientific Research (BISR), Jaipur, India. I obtained my PhD from Aalborg University, Denmark after having worked in Lene Juel Rasmussen’s lab. I went on to gain seven years of post-doctoral experience and sabbatical visits in various laboratories before taking up the current position. I love traveling and had been to over 70+ countries. I love mentoring! https://www.bioinformatics.org/wiki/Prash
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.
Dr. Klusza is a disabled (deaf) Assistant Professor of Biology at Clayton State University in the United States. He is a life-long developmental geneticist with high enthusiasm for synthetic biology, open science, and increasing accessibility to science and education for all people.
Toby is the Curriculum Community Developer 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.
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.
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.
Yo is a Software Sustainability Institute Fellow, founder of Code is Science, EngD student at the University of Manchester studying the effects of community and usabilty on open source software, editor for the PLOS Open Source Toolkit, 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.
Yvan is data management and analysis lover, for life science, health and environment
Mentorship roles can sound like a big personal responsibility and can be overwhelming for new mentors. To support our mentors in this program, we will offer training, topic-based guided discussions and opportunity for social interaction over 4 calls during the mentorship round:
In the mentor training, our mentors will then gain mentoring skills (active listening, effective questioning, giving feedback), learn to celebrate successes and gain confidence on navigating challenges in mentoring.
A dedicated slack channel will facilitate open discussions among mentors to help them discuss their experiences, challenges and tips and tricks (contact the team if you are not yet on this channel).
Experts are invited to join cohort calls or individual mentorship calls to share their experience and expertise during the program.
We thank the 63 persons who registered to be experts in this round.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Beth is a research consultant and social scientist. She helps technologists, designers and scientists work with human-centered data. She is the founder of Open Post Academics (formerly the Athenas), an online peer-support network for people with a Ph.D. who have left or are considering leaving academia. She is a storyteller and a writer with the Pushcart Prize nomination. She lives in Portland, Oregon and in her free time enjoys spinning yarn, knitting, aerial silks and travel.
Bea participated in OLS-2 with the project “Growing the Galaxy Community”, mentored by Dave Clements. Since September 2020, she is working in the European Galaxy team helping with the coordination of the Global Galaxy Community. Initially trained in Computer Science, PhD in Computational Biology, and postdoc at EMBL Heidelberg related to imaging within the context of EOSC-Life.
Bérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. Bérénice is also passionate about training, regularly giving workshops (data analysis, tool development, etc). She started and still co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project. She is a co-deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI, and a founder of Street Science Community, an outreach program.
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.
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.
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.
I’m a color vision researcher and open science advocate.
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.
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.
I’m an Open Archaeobotanist specialising in phytolith research. I’m currently working on building a community of open scientists in my field to address issues such as data sharing, FAIR data, open access and upskilling researchers in open science skills. I’m also working as a Community Manager at the Alan Turing Institute on the DECOVID project and I am an contributor to The Turing Way.
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.
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.
Dr. Wallace is a Sir Henry Dale Fellow (PI) in the Institute of Cell Biology at the University of Edinburgh. He was trained in mathematics, systems biology, and biochemistry, and now leads an interdisciplinary group studying RNA biology of fungi with data-intensive approaches. Alongside his research, Dr. Wallace is an open science advocate and teaches data literacy to scientists, working with Edinburgh Carpentries.
A researcher, doing a little bit of bioinformatics, a dash of machine learning, and a lot of Open Science.
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.
Hao is the Reproducibility Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. His role is to promote research reproducibility and open science practices across the entire UF system. He is especially interested in how open practices can be leveraged to promote equity and inclusion in higher education.
A Bioinformatician, who strongly believe in constant learning, collaboration, and team work.
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).
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.
Jez is Data Services Lead in The British Library’s Research Infrastructure Services team. He has over 8 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.
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.
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.
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.
I am a recovering academic researcher (in evolutionary biology), who is currently occupied with the use and development of web-based applications, using tech to make processes efficient and reproducible, and growing the Open Innovation in Life Sciences association to promote open science among early career researchers in Switzerland. In my spare time, I watch a lot of Netflix (i.e., crime dramas, sci-fi, RPDR) and go on long walks with my family in the Swiss countryside.
I am a linguist turned into a research data management specialist and community manager at the VU Amsterdam library. I am interested in languages and would love to support community-oriented projects in this area. I am also keen on getting in touch with people from Russia and supporting projects for Russian audience.
I am a research associate focused on reducing the energy demand of existing housing. I am passionate about making research, tools, code and data open access, where ethical. As a recent graduate of OLS-2, I continue to learn in this space.
Ex-astronomer, now data manager at a marine science data centre. Tackling the challenges of moving to FAIR data and open science.
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.
Laura is a PhD candidate at the University of Essex, researching the use of data assemblages in the public sector in England. Before this, she worked for almost a decade as a researcher at Amnesty International, focusing on gender, women’s rights, and LGBTI rights. She believes in research as a means to an end: to building a better world for everyone.
I am a tenured adjunct researcher leading a health data science group. I also work to improve data analysis teaching and practice. One of the roles I enjoy most is mentoring and teaching others. I am a trainer and instructor for The Carpentries. In 2020, I co-founded MetaDocencia, an open, collaborative, and Spanish-speaking education community.
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.
Malvika Sharan is the community manager of _The Turing Way- at The Alan Turing Institute. Malvika works with its community of diverse members to develop resources and ways that can make data science accessible for a wider audience. Malvika has a PhD in Bioinformatics and she worked at European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany, that helped her solidify her values as an Open Researcher and community builder. She is a co-founder of the Open Life Science program, a fellow of Software Sustainability Institute, a board member of Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a contributing member of The Carpentries community.’
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.
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.
A designer and open source advocate with experience building on and offline communities in open government and health and life sciences
I am a social media professional with experience in creating content for scientific organisation social media accounts.
I teach bioinformatics using Galaxy, I teach martial arts, and I hate onions. No seriously, I hate them. With my very soul.
Computational biologist interested in understanding the functional nature of macromolecules, with a special focus on their evolutionary relationships and their interactions within biological systems.
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 (http://cabana.online/). My background lies in structural biology and biomedical sciences, and I am passionate about science communication, equity and inclusion.
I am a Senior Scientist in Systems Biology at Birla Institute of Scientific Research (BISR), Jaipur, India. I obtained my PhD from Aalborg University, Denmark after having worked in Lene Juel Rasmussen’s lab. I went on to gain seven years of post-doctoral experience and sabbatical visits in various laboratories before taking up the current position. I love traveling and had been to over 70+ countries. I love mentoring! https://www.bioinformatics.org/wiki/Prash
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)
After leaving the university, where I taught programming in an international bioinformatics course, I started working as an IT specialist helping research centers, hospitals and companies in the development of reproducible analysis environments and software. Always Wikimedian, Software Carpentry instructor when I can.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dr. Klusza is a disabled (deaf) Assistant Professor of Biology at Clayton State University in the United States. He is a life-long developmental geneticist with high enthusiasm for synthetic biology, open science, and increasing accessibility to science and education for all people.
I have my dream job as the Community Manager for rOpenSci. I’m a biologist, bioinformatician, and compulsive people-connector and knowledge-sharer. I was one of the inaugural AAAS Community Engagement Fellows and am actively involved with the new Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement. My former research life involved bacteria, plants, insects, and mammals, first at the bench and then on a laptop. At rOpenSci I’m helping building up the social and technical infrastructure for open and reproducible research with shared data and reusable software.
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 🙃 .
Julieta is a PhD candidate on social studies of science & technology, with a background in environmental science. Her research asks how open science hardware can contribute to democratize science and tech in the ‘global south’ and what it means in each context. She co-founded ‘Open Hardware Makers’, a mentorship program like OpenLifeSci but for Hardware; she’s part of the Global Open Science Hardware (GOSH) community and loves tinkering with hardware and data for community science.
Toby is the Curriculum Community Developer 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.
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.
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.
Yo is a Software Sustainability Institute Fellow, founder of Code is Science, EngD student at the University of Manchester studying the effects of community and usabilty on open source software, editor for the PLOS Open Source Toolkit, 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.
Yvan is data management and analysis lover, for life science, health and environment
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.
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.
I am a tenured adjunct researcher leading a health data science group. I also work to improve data analysis teaching and practice. One of the roles I enjoy most is mentoring and teaching others. I am a trainer and instructor for The Carpentries. In 2020, I co-founded MetaDocencia, an open, collaborative, and Spanish-speaking education community.
Malvika Sharan is the community manager of _The Turing Way- at The Alan Turing Institute. Malvika works with its community of diverse members to develop resources and ways that can make data science accessible for a wider audience. Malvika has a PhD in Bioinformatics and she worked at European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany, that helped her solidify her values as an Open Researcher and community builder. She is a co-founder of the Open Life Science program, a fellow of Software Sustainability Institute, a board member of Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a contributing member of The Carpentries community.’
I am a social media professional with experience in creating content for scientific organisation social media accounts.
Emmy is the Innovation Community Manager at eLife, with a PhD in neuroscience. She loves research and is working to change the way that it’’s shared, evaluated and discovered; while learning about open-source, open science and community building! Her expertise is in Community strategies, publishing and scholarly communication.
Hao is the Reproducibility Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. His role is to promote research reproducibility and open science practices across the entire UF system. He is especially interested in how open practices can be leveraged to promote equity and inclusion in higher education.
Malvika Sharan is the community manager of _The Turing Way- at The Alan Turing Institute. Malvika works with its community of diverse members to develop resources and ways that can make data science accessible for a wider audience. Malvika has a PhD in Bioinformatics and she worked at European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany, that helped her solidify her values as an Open Researcher and community builder. She is a co-founder of the Open Life Science program, a fellow of Software Sustainability Institute, a board member of Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a contributing member of The Carpentries community.’
Yo is a Software Sustainability Institute Fellow, founder of Code is Science, EngD student at the University of Manchester studying the effects of community and usabilty on open source software, editor for the PLOS Open Source Toolkit, 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.
I am a recovering academic researcher (in evolutionary biology), who is currently occupied with the use and development of web-based applications, using tech to make processes efficient and reproducible, and growing the Open Innovation in Life Sciences association to promote open science among early career researchers in Switzerland. In my spare time, I watch a lot of Netflix (i.e., crime dramas, sci-fi, RPDR) and go on long walks with my family in the Swiss countryside.
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.
Ex-astronomer, now data manager at a marine science data centre. Tackling the challenges of moving to FAIR data and open science.
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.
After leaving the university, where I taught programming in an international bioinformatics course, I started working as an IT specialist helping research centers, hospitals and companies in the development of reproducible analysis environments and software. Always Wikimedian, Software Carpentry instructor when I can.
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.
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.
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.
Bérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. Bérénice is also passionate about training, regularly giving workshops (data analysis, tool development, etc). She started and still co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project. She is a co-deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI, and a founder of Street Science Community, an outreach program.
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.
Dr. Wallace is a Sir Henry Dale Fellow (PI) in the Institute of Cell Biology at the University of Edinburgh. He was trained in mathematics, systems biology, and biochemistry, and now leads an interdisciplinary group studying RNA biology of fungi with data-intensive approaches. Alongside his research, Dr. Wallace is an open science advocate and teaches data literacy to scientists, working with Edinburgh Carpentries.
A researcher, doing a little bit of bioinformatics, a dash of machine learning, and a lot of Open Science.
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.
A Bioinformatician, who strongly believe in constant learning, collaboration, and team work.
Malvika Sharan is the community manager of _The Turing Way- at The Alan Turing Institute. Malvika works with its community of diverse members to develop resources and ways that can make data science accessible for a wider audience. Malvika has a PhD in Bioinformatics and she worked at European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany, that helped her solidify her values as an Open Researcher and community builder. She is a co-founder of the Open Life Science program, a fellow of Software Sustainability Institute, a board member of Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a contributing member of The Carpentries community.’
I teach bioinformatics using Galaxy, I teach martial arts, and I hate onions. No seriously, I hate them. With my very soul.
I am a Senior Scientist in Systems Biology at Birla Institute of Scientific Research (BISR), Jaipur, India. I obtained my PhD from Aalborg University, Denmark after having worked in Lene Juel Rasmussen’s lab. I went on to gain seven years of post-doctoral experience and sabbatical visits in various laboratories before taking up the current position. I love traveling and had been to over 70+ countries. I love mentoring! https://www.bioinformatics.org/wiki/Prash
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.
Bérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. Bérénice is also passionate about training, regularly giving workshops (data analysis, tool development, etc). She started and still co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project. She is a co-deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI, and a founder of Street Science Community, an outreach program.
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.
Julieta is a PhD candidate on social studies of science & technology, with a background in environmental science. Her research asks how open science hardware can contribute to democratize science and tech in the ‘global south’ and what it means in each context. She co-founded ‘Open Hardware Makers’, a mentorship program like OpenLifeSci but for Hardware; she’s part of the Global Open Science Hardware (GOSH) community and loves tinkering with hardware and data for community science.
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.
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.
Bérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. Bérénice is also passionate about training, regularly giving workshops (data analysis, tool development, etc). She started and still co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project. She is a co-deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI, and a founder of Street Science Community, an outreach program.
Toby is the Curriculum Community Developer 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.
I’m an Open Archaeobotanist specialising in phytolith research. I’m currently working on building a community of open scientists in my field to address issues such as data sharing, FAIR data, open access and upskilling researchers in open science skills. I’m also working as a Community Manager at the Alan Turing Institute on the DECOVID project and I am an contributor to The Turing Way.
I have my dream job as the Community Manager for rOpenSci. I’m a biologist, bioinformatician, and compulsive people-connector and knowledge-sharer. I was one of the inaugural AAAS Community Engagement Fellows and am actively involved with the new Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement. My former research life involved bacteria, plants, insects, and mammals, first at the bench and then on a laptop. At rOpenSci I’m helping building up the social and technical infrastructure for open and reproducible research with shared data and reusable software.
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.
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.
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.
Hao is the Reproducibility Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. His role is to promote research reproducibility and open science practices across the entire UF system. He is especially interested in how open practices can be leveraged to promote equity and inclusion in higher education.
I am a research associate focused on reducing the energy demand of existing housing. I am passionate about making research, tools, code and data open access, where ethical. As a recent graduate of OLS-2, I continue to learn in this space.
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).
Bea participated in OLS-2 with the project “Growing the Galaxy Community”, mentored by Dave Clements. Since September 2020, she is working in the European Galaxy team helping with the coordination of the Global Galaxy Community. Initially trained in Computer Science, PhD in Computational Biology, and postdoc at EMBL Heidelberg related to imaging within the context of EOSC-Life.
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.
Julieta is a PhD candidate on social studies of science & technology, with a background in environmental science. Her research asks how open science hardware can contribute to democratize science and tech in the ‘global south’ and what it means in each context. She co-founded ‘Open Hardware Makers’, a mentorship program like OpenLifeSci but for Hardware; she’s part of the Global Open Science Hardware (GOSH) community and loves tinkering with hardware and data for community science.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bea participated in OLS-2 with the project “Growing the Galaxy Community”, mentored by Dave Clements. Since September 2020, she is working in the European Galaxy team helping with the coordination of the Global Galaxy Community. Initially trained in Computer Science, PhD in Computational Biology, and postdoc at EMBL Heidelberg related to imaging within the context of EOSC-Life.
I am a recovering academic researcher (in evolutionary biology), who is currently occupied with the use and development of web-based applications, using tech to make processes efficient and reproducible, and growing the Open Innovation in Life Sciences association to promote open science among early career researchers in Switzerland. In my spare time, I watch a lot of Netflix (i.e., crime dramas, sci-fi, RPDR) and go on long walks with my family in the Swiss countryside.
Computational biologist interested in understanding the functional nature of macromolecules, with a special focus on their evolutionary relationships and their interactions within biological systems.
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.
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.
I am a recovering academic researcher (in evolutionary biology), who is currently occupied with the use and development of web-based applications, using tech to make processes efficient and reproducible, and growing the Open Innovation in Life Sciences association to promote open science among early career researchers in Switzerland. In my spare time, I watch a lot of Netflix (i.e., crime dramas, sci-fi, RPDR) and go on long walks with my family in the Swiss countryside.
After leaving the university, where I taught programming in an international bioinformatics course, I started working as an IT specialist helping research centers, hospitals and companies in the development of reproducible analysis environments and software. Always Wikimedian, Software Carpentry instructor when I can.
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.
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 (http://cabana.online/). My background lies in structural biology and biomedical sciences, and I am passionate about science communication, equity and inclusion.
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.
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.
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 (http://cabana.online/). My background lies in structural biology and biomedical sciences, and I am passionate about science communication, equity and inclusion.
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.
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.
I am a social media professional with experience in creating content for scientific organisation social media accounts.
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.
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)
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.
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.
Malvika Sharan is the community manager of _The Turing Way- at The Alan Turing Institute. Malvika works with its community of diverse members to develop resources and ways that can make data science accessible for a wider audience. Malvika has a PhD in Bioinformatics and she worked at European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany, that helped her solidify her values as an Open Researcher and community builder. She is a co-founder of the Open Life Science program, a fellow of Software Sustainability Institute, a board member of Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a contributing member of The Carpentries community.’
Yvan is data management and analysis lover, for life science, health and environment
Jez is Data Services Lead in The British Library’s Research Infrastructure Services team. He has over 8 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.
Ex-astronomer, now data manager at a marine science data centre. Tackling the challenges of moving to FAIR data and open science.
Yvan is data management and analysis lover, for life science, health and environment
Laura is a PhD candidate at the University of Essex, researching the use of data assemblages in the public sector in England. Before this, she worked for almost a decade as a researcher at Amnesty International, focusing on gender, women’s rights, and LGBTI rights. She believes in research as a means to an end: to building a better world for everyone.
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.
I am a research associate focused on reducing the energy demand of existing housing. I am passionate about making research, tools, code and data open access, where ethical. As a recent graduate of OLS-2, I continue to learn in this space.
Bérénice is a bioinformatician (post-doc in the Freiburg Galaxy Team), analyzing biological data and developing tools for data analysis, mainly via Galaxy. Bérénice is also passionate about training, regularly giving workshops (data analysis, tool development, etc). She started and still co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project. She is a co-deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI, and a founder of Street Science Community, an outreach program.
Toby is the Curriculum Community Developer 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.
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.
Dr. Klusza is a disabled (deaf) Assistant Professor of Biology at Clayton State University in the United States. He is a life-long developmental geneticist with high enthusiasm for synthetic biology, open science, and increasing accessibility to science and education for all people.
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.
Jez is Data Services Lead in The British Library’s Research Infrastructure Services team. He has over 8 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.
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.