Experts sorted by their expertise areas

• Accessibility

  

  Kaitlin Stack Whitney

  Pronouns: she/her
  @kstackwhitney
  
  Rochester Institute Of Technology , USA

  Expertise:

  Accessibility, Road ecology, Novel ecosystems, Insects, Zines, OER

  More about Kaitlin

  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

  Pronouns: she, her, hers
  @serahrono
  
  The Carpentries , Estonia

  Expertise:

  Web development, Open source, Community building, Community sustainability, Accessibility, Documentation, Ressource development, Communication, Outreach, Event planning, Public speaking

  More about Serah

  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.

• Addiction research

  

  Laura Ación

  Pronouns: she/her
  @_lacion_
  
  University Of Buenos Aires - Conicet , Argentina

  Expertise:

  Health data science and artificial intelligence/Biostatistics, Addiction research, Open education, Community building

  More about Laura

  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.

• Algorithm design

  

  Malvika Sharan

  Pronouns: she/her
  @MalvikaSharan
  
  UK

  Expertise:

  Community building, Mentoring, Data Science best practices, Inclusive and collaborative practices, Python, Git, Unix, Bioinformatics, Algorithm design

  More about Malvika

  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.’

• Aligning digital strategy with research goals

  

  Michelle Mendonca

  Pronouns: she/her
  @mishrose2
  
  Embl-Ebi , UK

  Expertise:

  Science communication using social media, Creating digital content, Aligning digital strategy with research goals

  More about Michelle

  I am a social media professional with experience in creating content for scientific organisation social media accounts.

• Ally skills training

  

  Emmy Tsang

  Pronouns: she/her
  @emmy_ft
  
  Delft University of Technology , The Netherlands

  Expertise:

  Community strategies, Open research

  More about Emmy

  Emmy is the Community Engagement Manager for the TU Delft Open Science Programme. She is passionate and curious about open, research culture and knowledge equity. Her expertise is in community design, and open research and scholarly communication.

  

  Hao Ye

  Pronouns: he/him
  @Hao_and_Y
  
  University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries , USA

  Expertise:

  Ecology, Health Sciences, R, Git and Github, Version control, Time series analysis, Research reproducibility, Community management, Ally skill training

  More about Hao

  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

  Pronouns: she/her
  @MalvikaSharan
  
  UK

  Expertise:

  Community building, Mentoring, Data Science best practices, Inclusive and collaborative practices, Python, Git, Unix, Bioinformatics, Algorithm design

  More about Malvika

  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 Yehudi

  Pronouns: they/them
  @yoyehudi
  
  UK

  Expertise:

  Software development, Community building, Mentoring

  More about Yo

  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.

• App/software development

  

  Joyce Kao

  Pronouns: she/her
  @joyceykao
  
  Open Innovation In Life Sciences Association , Switzerland

  Expertise:

  Web applications, App/software development, Conference organization, Virtual events, Community building, Evolutionary biology, Computational biology

  More about Joyce

  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.

• Archaeology

  

  Esther Plomp

  Pronouns: she/her/hers
  @PhDToothFAIRy
  
  Delft University Of Technology - Faculty Of Applied Sciences , The Netherlands

  Expertise:

  Open protocols, Open data, Research data management, FAIR, Archaeology, Bioanthropology, Isotopes, Osteology

  More about Esther

  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.

• Astrophysics

  

  Katrina Exter

  
  Flanders Marine Institute (Vliz) , Belgium

  Expertise:

  FAIR data, Data management, Open data, Marine data, Astrophysics

  More about Katrina

  Ex-astronomer, now data manager at a marine science data centre. Tackling the challenges of moving to FAIR data and open science.

  

  Rachael Ainsworth

  Pronouns: she/her
  @rachaelevelyn
  
  Software Sustainability Institute , UK

  Expertise:

  Astrophysics, Open Science/Research, Reproducibility, Community building, Organising events, Virtual events, GitHub

  More about Rachael

  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.

• Automation

  

  Giuseppe Profiti

  Pronouns: he/him
  @GProfiti
  
  Biodec S.R.L. , Italy

  Expertise:

  Reproducible science, Git, Continuous integration, Automation, Open and public databases and sources

  More about Giuseppe

  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.

• Best software delivery practices applied in scientific contexts

  

  Ivo Jimenez

  Pronouns: he/him
  @ivotron
  
  Uc Santa Cruz , Mexico

  Expertise:

  Computer Science, Open infrastructure for science, DevOps for science, Best software delivery practices applied in scientific contexts

  More about Ivo

  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.

• Bioanthropology

  

  Esther Plomp

  Pronouns: she/her/hers
  @PhDToothFAIRy
  
  Delft University Of Technology - Faculty Of Applied Sciences , The Netherlands

  Expertise:

  Open protocols, Open data, Research data management, FAIR, Archaeology, Bioanthropology, Isotopes, Osteology

  More about Esther

  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.

• Bioengineering

  

  Joel Ostblom

  Pronouns: he/him
  @joelostblom
  
  University Of British Columbia , Canada

  Expertise:

  Static and interactive data visualization, Introductory data science, Reproducible analysis workflows, Image analysis, Python, Git, Project organization, Stem cell biology, Bioengineering

  More about Joel

  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.

• Bioinformatics

  

  Bérénice Batut

  Pronouns: she/her
  @bebatut
  
  University of Freiburg , Germany

  Expertise:

  Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics, Wordpress, Jekyll, GitHub/GitLab Pages, Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web content

  More about Bérénice

  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 Burke

  Pronouns: She/Her
  @burkemlou
  
  Australian Biocommons , Australia

  Expertise:

  Training, FAIR training materials, Bioinformatics, Life Science, eLearning, Webinar and workshop development, Functional genomics, Parasitology

  More about Melissa

  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.

  

  Edward Wallace

  Pronouns: he, him
  @ewjwallace
  
  0000-0001-8025-6361 , UK

  Expertise:

  RNA biology, Bioinformatics, Sequencing workflows, Training, Working open, FAIRification, Persuading sceptical colleagues

  More about Edward

  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.

  

  Fotis Psomopoulos

  Pronouns: He/him
  @fopsom
  
  Institute Of Applied Biosciences, Centre For Research And Technology Hellas , Greece

  Expertise:

  Bioinformatics, Machine learning, Training, Open Science

  More about Fotis

  A researcher, doing a little bit of bioinformatics, a dash of machine learning, and a lot of Open Science.

  

  Bastian Greshake Tzovaras

  Pronouns: he/him
  @gedankenstuecke
  
  Center For Research & Interdisciplinarity , France

  Expertise:

  Bioinformatics, Citizen science, Web development, Python, Personal data, Community management

  More about Bastian

  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.

  

  Harpreet Singh

  
  Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya Jalandhar , India

  Expertise:

  Bioinformatics, Molecular Modeling, Machine learning, R Programming

  More about Harpreet

  A Bioinformatician, who strongly believe in constant learning, collaboration, and team work.

  

  Malvika Sharan

  Pronouns: she/her
  @MalvikaSharan
  
  UK

  Expertise:

  Community building, Mentoring, Data Science best practices, Inclusive and collaborative practices, Python, Git, Unix, Bioinformatics, Algorithm design

  More about Malvika

  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.’

  

  Wendi Bacon

  Pronouns: She/her
  
  Embl-Ebi , UK

  Expertise:

  Bioinformatics, Single cell transcriptomes, Galaxy

  More about Wendi

  I teach bioinformatics using Galaxy, I teach martial arts, and I hate onions. No seriously, I hate them. With my very soul.

  

  Prashanth N. Suravajhala

  Pronouns: He
  @prashbio
  
  Bioclues.Org, India And Bisr, Jaipur , India

  Expertise:

  Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Mentoring

  More about Prashanth N.

  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

• Chromatin

  

  Marta Lloret Llinares

  Pronouns: She/her
  
  Embl-Ebi , UK

  Expertise:

  Course design, Online training, Course organisation, Community building, Competency frameworks, Molecular biology, Gene expression, RNA, Chromatin, Differentiation of mESC, Drosophila melanogaster

  More about Marta

  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.

• Citizen science

  

  Bérénice Batut

  Pronouns: she/her
  @bebatut
  
  University of Freiburg , Germany

  Expertise:

  Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics, Wordpress, Jekyll, GitHub/GitLab Pages, Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web content

  More about Bérénice

  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 Greshake Tzovaras

  Pronouns: he/him
  @gedankenstuecke
  
  Center For Research & Interdisciplinarity , France

  Expertise:

  Bioinformatics, Citizen science, Web development, Python, Personal data, Community management

  More about Bastian

  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 Arancio

  Pronouns: she-her
  @cassandreces
  
  Cenit-Unsam , Argentina

  Expertise:

  Open science hardware, Citizen science, Community science, Linked data for community science, Science and tech democratization

  More about Julieta

  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.

• Cloud computing

  

  Sarah Gibson

  Pronouns: she/her
  @drsarahlgibson
  
  The Alan Turing Institute , UK

  Expertise:

  Reproducibility, Cloud infrastructure, Open source, Community building, Continuous integration

  More about Sarah

  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.

• Code of conducts

  

  Arielle Bennett

  Pronouns: she/her
  @biotechchat
  
  The Alan Turing Institute , UK

  Expertise:

  Road mapping and strategy planning, Community consultation, Culture change, Code of conducts, Community goals, Drug discovery, Computational biology, Neuroscience.

  More about Arielle

  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.

• Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab

  

  Bérénice Batut

  Pronouns: she/her
  @bebatut
  
  University of Freiburg , Germany

  Expertise:

  Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics, Wordpress, Jekyll, GitHub/GitLab Pages, Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web content

  More about Bérénice

  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 Hodges

  Pronouns: he/him
  @tbyhdgs
  
  The Carpentries , Germany

  Expertise:

  Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web conten, Wordpress, Jekyll, GitHub/GitLab Pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops

  More about Toby

  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.

• Collaborative working

  

  Emma Karoune

  Pronouns: She/her
  @ekaroune
  
  The Alan Turing Institute , UK

  Expertise:

  Environmental Archaeology, Palaeoecology, FAIR, Collaborative working, Open workflows, Reproducibility

  More about Emma

  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.

• Communicating in the open

  

  Stefanie Butland

  Pronouns: she/her
  @stefaniebutland
  
  Ropensci , Canada

  Expertise:

  Community building, Communicating in the open, Maintaining a blog, Open software peer review, R, GitHub, Virtual events

  More about Stefanie

  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.

• Communication

  

  Emily Lescak

  Pronouns: she, her
  @elescak
  
  Code For Science And Society , USA

  Expertise:

  Community building, Communication, Diversity, Inclusion, Event planning, Leadership, Research methods, Teaching

  More about Emily

  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

  Pronouns: she, her, hers
  @serahrono
  
  The Carpentries , Estonia

  Expertise:

  Web development, Open source, Community building, Community sustainability, Accessibility, Documentation, Ressource development, Communication, Outreach, Event planning, Public speaking

  More about Serah

  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.

• Community building

  

  Arielle Bennett

  Pronouns: she/her
  @biotechchat
  
  The Alan Turing Institute , UK

  Expertise:

  Road mapping and strategy planning, Community consultation, Culture change, Code of conducts, Community goals, Drug discovery, Computational biology, Neuroscience.

  More about Arielle

  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 Ye

  Pronouns: he/him
  @Hao_and_Y
  
  University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries , USA

  Expertise:

  Ecology, Health Sciences, R, Git and Github, Version control, Time series analysis, Research reproducibility, Community management, Ally skill training

  More about Hao

  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.

  

  Kate Simpson

  Pronouns: She/Her
  @Dr_KateSimpson
  
  Imperial College London/ Visiting Alan Turing Institute , UK

  Expertise:

  Open scholarship, Community development, User-centered design, buildings, energy, environment quality, Data-driven evaluation of building performance, Engineering-based modelling, Mixed-method research, Social networks

  More about Kate

  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.

  

  Iratxe Puebla

  Pronouns: she/her
  @IratxePuebla
  
  Asapbio , UK

  Expertise:

  Preprints, Science communication, Publishing, peer review, Community engagement, Research integrity

  More about Iratxe

  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).

  

  Beatriz Serrano-Solano

  Pronouns: she/her
  @Birthae
  
  University Of Freiburg , Germany

  Expertise:

  Community management, Computational biology, Women in STEM, Ontologies, Imaging, R, Project management

  More about Beatriz

  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 Greshake Tzovaras

  Pronouns: he/him
  @gedankenstuecke
  
  Center For Research & Interdisciplinarity , France

  Expertise:

  Bioinformatics, Citizen science, Web development, Python, Personal data, Community management

  More about Bastian

  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 Arancio

  Pronouns: she-her
  @cassandreces
  
  Cenit-Unsam , Argentina

  Expertise:

  Open science hardware, Citizen science, Community science, Linked data for community science, Science and tech democratization

  More about Julieta

  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

  Pronouns: she, her, hers
  @serahrono
  
  The Carpentries , Estonia

  Expertise:

  Web development, Open source, Community building, Community sustainability, Accessibility, Documentation, Ressource development, Communication, Outreach, Event planning, Public speaking

  More about Serah

  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.

• Competency frameworks

  

  Marta Lloret Llinares

  Pronouns: She/her
  
  Embl-Ebi , UK

  Expertise:

  Course design, Online training, Course organisation, Community building, Competency frameworks, Molecular biology, Gene expression, RNA, Chromatin, Differentiation of mESC, Drosophila melanogaster

  More about Marta

  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.

• Computational Epigenomics

  

  Sonika Tyagi

  Pronouns: she/her
  @tsonika
  
  Monash University Melbourne , Australia

  Expertise:

  Genomics, Machine learning, Data Science, Computational Epigenomics, Transcriptomics

  More about Sonika

  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.

• Computational Training

  

  Renato Alves

  Pronouns: he/him
  @renato_alvs
  
  European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) , Germany

  Expertise:

  Full-stack developer, Computational Training, Reproducibility, Computational biology, Metagenomics, Meta-transcriptomics

  More about Renato

  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.

• Computational biology

  

  Arielle Bennett

  Pronouns: she/her
  @biotechchat
  
  The Alan Turing Institute , UK

  Expertise:

  Road mapping and strategy planning, Community consultation, Culture change, Code of conducts, Community goals, Drug discovery, Computational biology, Neuroscience.

  More about Arielle

  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.

  

  Beatriz Serrano-Solano

  Pronouns: she/her
  @Birthae
  
  University Of Freiburg , Germany

  Expertise:

  Community management, Computational biology, Women in STEM, Ontologies, Imaging, R, Project management

  More about Beatriz

  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.

  

  Joyce Kao

  Pronouns: she/her
  @joyceykao
  
  Open Innovation In Life Sciences Association , Switzerland

  Expertise:

  Web applications, App/software development, Conference organization, Virtual events, Community building, Evolutionary biology, Computational biology

  More about Joyce

  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.

  

  Nicolas Palopoli

  Pronouns: He/him
  @npalopoli
  
  Universidad Nacional De Quilmes & Conicet , Argentina

  Expertise:

  Computational biology, Structural bioinformatics, Proteins, Molecular interactions, Education

  More about Nicolas

  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 Alves

  Pronouns: he/him
  @renato_alvs
  
  European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) , Germany

  Expertise:

  Full-stack developer, Computational Training, Reproducibility, Computational biology, Metagenomics, Meta-transcriptomics

  More about Renato

  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.

• Computer Science

  

  Ivo Jimenez

  Pronouns: he/him
  @ivotron
  
  Uc Santa Cruz , Mexico

  Expertise:

  Computer Science, Open infrastructure for science, DevOps for science, Best software delivery practices applied in scientific contexts

  More about Ivo

  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.

• Conference organization

  

  Joyce Kao

  Pronouns: she/her
  @joyceykao
  
  Open Innovation In Life Sciences Association , Switzerland

  Expertise:

  Web applications, App/software development, Conference organization, Virtual events, Community building, Evolutionary biology, Computational biology

  More about Joyce

  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.

• Continuous integration

  

  Giuseppe Profiti

  Pronouns: he/him
  @GProfiti
  
  Biodec S.R.L. , Italy

  Expertise:

  Reproducible science, Git, Continuous integration, Automation, Open and public databases and sources

  More about Giuseppe

  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.

• Course delivery

  

  Alexandra Holinski

  Pronouns: She/her
  
  Embl-Ebi , UK

  Expertise:

  Scientific Education and Training, Course development, Course design, Course delivery, Methods of interactive delivery (face-to-face and virtual courses), Online training, Community building, Open Science, FAIR principles, Principles of FAIRification of (training) material, Protein Biochemistry

  More about Alexandra

  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.

  

  Piv Gopalasingam

  Pronouns: he/him
  @cascade21
  
  Embl-Ebi (European Bioinformatics Institute) , UK

  Expertise:

  Education, Training, Course design, Course delivery, Science communication

  More about Piv

  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.

• Course design

  

  Alexandra Holinski

  Pronouns: She/her
  
  Embl-Ebi , UK

  Expertise:

  Scientific Education and Training, Course development, Course design, Course delivery, Methods of interactive delivery (face-to-face and virtual courses), Online training, Community building, Open Science, FAIR principles, Principles of FAIRification of (training) material, Protein Biochemistry

  More about Alexandra

  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 Lloret Llinares

  Pronouns: She/her
  
  Embl-Ebi , UK

  Expertise:

  Course design, Online training, Course organisation, Community building, Competency frameworks, Molecular biology, Gene expression, RNA, Chromatin, Differentiation of mESC, Drosophila melanogaster

  More about Marta

  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.

  

  Piv Gopalasingam

  Pronouns: he/him
  @cascade21
  
  Embl-Ebi (European Bioinformatics Institute) , UK

  Expertise:

  Education, Training, Course design, Course delivery, Science communication

  More about Piv

  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.

• Course development

  

  Alexandra Holinski

  Pronouns: She/her
  
  Embl-Ebi , UK

  Expertise:

  Scientific Education and Training, Course development, Course design, Course delivery, Methods of interactive delivery (face-to-face and virtual courses), Online training, Community building, Open Science, FAIR principles, Principles of FAIRification of (training) material, Protein Biochemistry

  More about Alexandra

  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.

• Course organisation

  

  Marta Lloret Llinares

  Pronouns: She/her
  
  Embl-Ebi , UK

  Expertise:

  Course design, Online training, Course organisation, Community building, Competency frameworks, Molecular biology, Gene expression, RNA, Chromatin, Differentiation of mESC, Drosophila melanogaster

  More about Marta

  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.

• Creating digital content

  

  Michelle Mendonca

  Pronouns: she/her
  @mishrose2
  
  Embl-Ebi , UK

  Expertise:

  Science communication using social media, Creating digital content, Aligning digital strategy with research goals

  More about Michelle

  I am a social media professional with experience in creating content for scientific organisation social media accounts.

• Culture change

  

  Arielle Bennett

  Pronouns: she/her
  @biotechchat
  
  The Alan Turing Institute , UK

  Expertise:

  Road mapping and strategy planning, Community consultation, Culture change, Code of conducts, Community goals, Drug discovery, Computational biology, Neuroscience.

  More about Arielle

  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.

• Data Management

  

  Philippe Rocca-Serra

  Pronouns: he/him
  @Phil_at_OeRC
  
  University Of Oxford E-Research Centre, Department Of Engineering Science , UK

  Expertise:

  Data Management, FAIR Data, Ontologies, Metabolomics, Functional Genomics

  More about Philippe

  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)

• Data Science

  

  Sam Van Stroud

  
  Ucl , UK

  Expertise:

  Data Science, GitHub, Software development, Python, Machine learning, Particle Physics

  More about Sam

  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 Tyagi

  Pronouns: she/her
  @tsonika
  
  Monash University Melbourne , Australia

  Expertise:

  Genomics, Machine learning, Data Science, Computational Epigenomics, Transcriptomics

  More about Sonika

  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.

• Data Science best practices

  

  Malvika Sharan

  Pronouns: she/her
  @MalvikaSharan
  
  UK

  Expertise:

  Community building, Mentoring, Data Science best practices, Inclusive and collaborative practices, Python, Git, Unix, Bioinformatics, Algorithm design

  More about Malvika

  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.’

• Data analysis

  

  Yvan Le Bras

  Pronouns: He
  @Yvan2935
  
  French Museum Of Natural History , France

  Expertise:

  Ecology, Data management, Data analysis

  More about Yvan

  Yvan is data management and analysis lover, for life science, health and environment

• Data management

  

  Jez Cope

  Pronouns: he/him
  @jezcope
  
  The British Library , UK

  Expertise:

  Libraries, Data management, Digital preservation, Open source, Open access publishing, Git, Web

  More about Jez

  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.

  

  Katrina Exter

  
  Flanders Marine Institute (Vliz) , Belgium

  Expertise:

  FAIR data, Data management, Open data, Marine data, Astrophysics

  More about Katrina

  Ex-astronomer, now data manager at a marine science data centre. Tackling the challenges of moving to FAIR data and open science.

  

  Yvan Le Bras

  Pronouns: He
  @Yvan2935
  
  French Museum Of Natural History , France

  Expertise:

  Ecology, Data management, Data analysis

  More about Yvan

  Yvan is data management and analysis lover, for life science, health and environment

• Data usage in the public sector

  

  Laura Carter

  Pronouns: she/her
  @LauraC_rter
  
  University Of Essex , UK

  Expertise:

  Human rights, Data usage in the public sector, Gender and stereotyping, Feminist and queer approaches to tech and data, Ethical and reflexive research methodologies, Equality, Anti-discrimination and justice

  More about Laura

  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.

• Data visualisation.

  

  Anna Krystalli

  Pronouns: she/her
  @annakrystalli
  
  University Of Sheffield , UK

  Expertise:

  R, Reproducible research, Research software, Version control, GIS, Data visualisation.

  More about Anna

  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.

• Data-driven evaluation of building performance

  

  Kate Simpson

  Pronouns: She/Her
  @Dr_KateSimpson
  
  Imperial College London/ Visiting Alan Turing Institute , UK

  Expertise:

  Open scholarship, Community development, User-centered design, buildings, energy, environment quality, Data-driven evaluation of building performance, Engineering-based modelling, Mixed-method research, Social networks

  More about Kate

  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.

• Designing and developing training material

  

  Bérénice Batut

  Pronouns: she/her
  @bebatut
  
  University of Freiburg , Germany

  Expertise:

  Galaxy, Galaxy training, Citizen science, Bioinformatics, High-throughput sequencing, Metagenomics, Wordpress, Jekyll, GitHub/GitLab Pages, Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web content

  More about Bérénice

  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 Hodges

  Pronouns: he/him
  @tbyhdgs
  
  The Carpentries , Germany

  Expertise:

  Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with Git & GitHub/GitLab, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Publishing web conten, Wordpress, Jekyll, GitHub/GitLab Pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops

  More about Toby

  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.

• DevOps for science

  

  Ivo Jimenez

  Pronouns: he/him
  @ivotron
  
  Uc Santa Cruz , Mexico

  Expertise:

  Computer Science, Open infrastructure for science, DevOps for science, Best software delivery practices applied in scientific contexts

  More about Ivo

  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.

• Developmental genetics (fruit fly)

  

  Stephen Klusza

  Pronouns: he/him/his
  @codebiologist
  
  Clayton State University , United States

  Expertise:

  Synthetic biology, Developmental genetics (fruit fly)

  More about Stephen

  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.

• Differentiation of mESC

  

  Marta Lloret Llinares

  Pronouns: She/her
  
  Embl-Ebi , UK

  Expertise:

  Course design, Online training, Course organisation, Community building, Competency frameworks, Molecular biology, Gene expression, RNA, Chromatin, Differentiation of mESC, Drosophila melanogaster

  More about Marta

  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.

• Digital preservation

  

  Jez Cope

  Pronouns: he/him
  @jezcope
  
  The British Library , UK

  Expertise:

  Libraries, Data management, Digital preservation, Open source, Open access publishing, Git, Web

  More about Jez

  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.

• Diversity