Experts sorted by their expertise areas

• Accessibility

  

  Kaitlin Stack Whitney

  Pronouns: she/her
  @kstackwhitney
  
  Rochester Institute Of Technology

  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

  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/ella
  @_lacion_
  
  MetaDocencia

  Expertise:

  Ethics in artificial intelligence, Health data science, Responsible use of data, Latin america, Open education, Community building

  More about Laura

  I am a tenured researcher leading a collaborative health data science research group. I also work to improve data analysis teaching and practice. I co-founded MetaDocencia, an open, collaborative, and Spanish-speaking education community. One of the roles I enjoy most is mentoring and teaching others.

• Algorithm design

  

  Malvika Sharan

  Pronouns: she/her
  @malvikasharan
  
  The Alan Turing Institute

  Role in OLS: Director of Partnerships and Strategy
  

  Expertise:

  Community building, Mentoring, Data Science best practices, Reproducibility, Inclusive and collaborative practices, Python, Version Control, Funding Proposals, Bioinformatics, Algorithm design

  More about Malvika

  Malvika Sharan is a Senior Researcher at The Alan Turing Institute, where she leads a team of community managers and co-leads The Turing Way, a community-led handbook on data science. She is a co-founder of Open Life Science, and an active contributor of several open source/science projects. Connect with her on topics such as community building, open science, strategic collaboration and representation of marginalised members in leadership.

• Aligning digital strategy with research goals

  

  Michelle Mendonca

  Pronouns: she/her
  @mishrose2
  
  EMBL-EBI

  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
  

  Role in OLS: Director of Finance and Operations
  

  Expertise:

  Community strategies, Open research

  More about Emmy

  Emmy is the Director of Finance and Operations at Open Life Science and Engagement Lead at Invest in Open Infrastructure. She is passionate and curious about open, research culture and knowledge equity. Her expertise is in community design, and open research and scholarly communication.

  

  Hao Ye

  Pronouns: he/him
  @Hao_and_Y
  
  University of Pennsylvania / Community for Rigor

  Expertise:

  Ecology, Health sciences, R, Git and github, Version control, Time series analysis, Research reproducibility, Community management, Ally skills training

  More about Hao

  Hao is the Reproducibility Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. He is passionate about empowering others, whether through training in open science and reproducible research practices or promoting equity and inclusion by dismantling gatekeeping in academia.

  

  Malvika Sharan

  Pronouns: she/her
  @malvikasharan
  
  The Alan Turing Institute

  Role in OLS: Director of Partnerships and Strategy
  

  Expertise:

  Community building, Mentoring, Data Science best practices, Reproducibility, Inclusive and collaborative practices, Python, Version Control, Funding Proposals, Bioinformatics, Algorithm design

  More about Malvika

  Malvika Sharan is a Senior Researcher at The Alan Turing Institute, where she leads a team of community managers and co-leads The Turing Way, a community-led handbook on data science. She is a co-founder of Open Life Science, and an active contributor of several open source/science projects. Connect with her on topics such as community building, open science, strategic collaboration and representation of marginalised members in leadership.

  

  Yo Yehudi

  Pronouns: they/them
  @yoyehudi
  

  Role in OLS: Executive Director, Business and Development Lead
  

  Expertise:

  Software development, Community building, Mentoring

  More about Yo

  Yo is the executive director and a co-founder of OLS. As an EngD student at the University of Manchester, Yo is studying pathogen-related data sharing and sustainability of open source software.Yo is a founder of Code is Science, and previously, they were editor for the PLOS Open Source Toolkit, editor emeritus at the Journal of Open Source Software, board member of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a software developer at the University of Cambridge, working on an open source biological data warehouse called InterMine.

• App/software development

  

  Joyce Kao

  Pronouns: She/Her
  @joyceykao
  
  University Hospital Rwth Aachen

  Expertise:

  Open innovation, Digitalization

  More about Joyce

  I am an enthusiast for using tech to make processes more efficient and reproducible. In a previous position, I co-founded the Open Innovation in Life Sciences association that promotes open science among early career researchers in Switzerland. Things that make me happy at the moment include playing piano and introducing chapter books from my childhood to my school-aged kid.

• Archaeology

  

  Esther Plomp

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

  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)

  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

  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/his
  @GProfiti
  
  Biodec S.R.L

  Expertise:

  Teaching, Devops, Software development, Bioinformatics, Wiki*, Carpentries, Communities, Databases, Reproducible science

  More about Giuseppe

  Former university professor and researcher. IT specialist for R&D in bioinformatics. Wikipedian and open culture enthusiast.

• Best software delivery practices applied in scientific contexts

  

  Ivo Jimenez

  Pronouns: he/him
  @ivotron
  
  Uc Santa Cruz

  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

  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

  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

  Role in OLS: Director of Learning and Technology
  

  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. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.

  

  Melissa Burke

  Pronouns: She/Her
  @burkemlou
  
  Australian Biocommons

  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
  
  University Of Edinburgh

  Expertise:

  Gene expression, Rna, Yeast & fungi, Bioinformatics, Open science, Data literacy, Open science in project and teaching context, Practical github, R packages, Balancing open science with the rest of your career;

  More about Edward

  My research group studies how organisms respond to their environment, focusing on molecular mechanisms used by fungi. We collect and analyze genome-scale datasets to understand how fungi dynamically reorganize their RNA and protein to adapt to environmental change. We also produce open-science software tools, including tidyqpcr for quantitative PCR analysis in the tidyverse, and riboviz for ribosome profiling analysis. Both of these packages are going through software review and I’m learning a lot from the process. Alongside my research, I’m an open science advocate and teach data literacy to scientists, working with The Carpentries and Edinburgh Carpentries.

  

  Fotis Psomopoulos

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

  Expertise:

  Bioinformatics, Machine learning, Training

  More about Fotis

  Doing Bioinformatics and ML @ CERTH, Thessaloníki, GR, fan of training, Open Science and e-infras.

  

  Bastian Greshake Tzovaras

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

  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

  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
  
  The Alan Turing Institute

  Role in OLS: Director of Partnerships and Strategy
  

  Expertise:

  Community building, Mentoring, Data Science best practices, Reproducibility, Inclusive and collaborative practices, Python, Version Control, Funding Proposals, Bioinformatics, Algorithm design

  More about Malvika

  Malvika Sharan is a Senior Researcher at The Alan Turing Institute, where she leads a team of community managers and co-leads The Turing Way, a community-led handbook on data science. She is a co-founder of Open Life Science, and an active contributor of several open source/science projects. Connect with her on topics such as community building, open science, strategic collaboration and representation of marginalised members in leadership.

  

  Wendi Bacon

  Pronouns: She/her
  
  Embl-Ebi

  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.

  

  Prash Suravajhala

  Pronouns: He/Him
  @prashbio
  
  Bioclues.Org

  Expertise:

  Systems genomics, bioinformatics

  More about Prash

  A Systems Biologist with wide interests in the areas on functional genomics, protein informatics and interactions. *Principal Investigator for four or more projects coalescing keywords #HypotheticalProteins #VitaminK #LncRNAs #ProstateCancer *Founder of Bioclues.org, India’s largest bioinformatics society working for mentor-mentee relationships since 2005. *Advocate #OpenAcess and #OpenSource

• Chromatin

  

  Marta Lloret Llinares

  Pronouns: She/her
  
  Embl-Ebi

  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

  Role in OLS: Director of Learning and Technology
  

  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. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.

  

  Bastian Greshake Tzovaras

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

  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
  
  University Of Bath & Drexel University

  Expertise:

  Open science hardware, Sti policy, Open educational resources

  More about Julieta

  Julieta Arancio is a postdoctoral researcher at Drexel University (US) & the University of Bath (UK), and an associate researcher at CENIT-UNSAM in Argentina. Her research focuses on social studies of open hardware, in particular for democratization of the production of science and technology. She is a co-organizer at reGOSH, the Latin America open science hardware network, and 1/3 of the mentorship program Open Hardware Makers.

• Cloud computing

  

  Sarah Gibson

  Pronouns: she/her
  @drsarahlgibson
  
  The Alan Turing Institute

  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

  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

  Role in OLS: Director of Learning and Technology
  

  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. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.

  

  Toby Hodges

  Pronouns: he/him
  @tbyhdgs
  
  The Carpentries

  Expertise:

  Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with git & github/gitlab, Publishing web content, Wordpress, Jekyll, Github/gitlab pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops

  More about Toby

  Toby is Director of Curriculum at The Carpentries, a community of practice building global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. Before that, he was a CSCCE CEFP2019 Fellow and community manager for EMBL Bio-IT, a community of bioinformaticians/computational biologists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.

• Collaborative working

  

  Emma Karoune

  Pronouns: she/her
  @ekaroune
  
  The Alan Turing Institute And Historic England

  Expertise:

  Fair data, Sensitive data, Community building, Open publishing, Phytoliths, Environmental archaeology, Palaeoecology

  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 Senior Community Manager at the Alan Turing Institute on the project across the Health Programme and I am core team member of The Turing Way.

• Communicating in the open

  

  Stefanie Butland

  Pronouns: she/her
  @stefaniebutland
  
  Ropensci

  Expertise:

  Building inclusive sustainable communities, Communicating in the open, Virtual events, Github, r, Open software peer review

  More about Stefanie

  I’m a tech community manager and reformed research scientist who can never resist connecting people, sharing knowledge, and helping people recognize the value they bring to a project. I am actively involved with the Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement as one of the inaugural Community Engagement Fellows, a mentor, and member. My research life involved bacteria, plants, insects, and mammals, first at the bench and then on a laptop. I was rOpenSci’s Community Manager from 2016 to 2022.

• Communication

  

  Emily Lescak

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

  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

  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

  

  Aidan Budd

  Pronouns: he/him
  @aidanbudd
  
  Embo Solutions Gmbh

  Expertise:

  Community building

  More about Aidan

  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.

  

  Alexandra Holinski

  Pronouns: She/her
  
  EMBL-EBI

  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.

  

  Emily Lescak

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

  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.

  

  Joyce Kao

  Pronouns: She/Her
  @joyceykao
  
  University Hospital Rwth Aachen

  Expertise:

  Open innovation, Digitalization

  More about Joyce

  I am an enthusiast for using tech to make processes more efficient and reproducible. In a previous position, I co-founded the Open Innovation in Life Sciences association that promotes open science among early career researchers in Switzerland. Things that make me happy at the moment include playing piano and introducing chapter books from my childhood to my school-aged kid.

  

  Laura Ación

  Pronouns: she/ella
  @_lacion_
  
  MetaDocencia

  Expertise:

  Ethics in artificial intelligence, Health data science, Responsible use of data, Latin america, Open education, Community building

  More about Laura

  I am a tenured researcher leading a collaborative health data science research group. I also work to improve data analysis teaching and practice. I co-founded MetaDocencia, an open, collaborative, and Spanish-speaking education community. One of the roles I enjoy most is mentoring and teaching others.

  

  Malvika Sharan

  Pronouns: she/her
  @malvikasharan
  
  The Alan Turing Institute

  Role in OLS: Director of Partnerships and Strategy
  

  Expertise:

  Community building, Mentoring, Data Science best practices, Reproducibility, Inclusive and collaborative practices, Python, Version Control, Funding Proposals, Bioinformatics, Algorithm design

  More about Malvika

  Malvika Sharan is a Senior Researcher at The Alan Turing Institute, where she leads a team of community managers and co-leads The Turing Way, a community-led handbook on data science. She is a co-founder of Open Life Science, and an active contributor of several open source/science projects. Connect with her on topics such as community building, open science, strategic collaboration and representation of marginalised members in leadership.

  

  Marta Lloret Llinares

  Pronouns: She/her
  
  Embl-Ebi

  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.

  

  Rachael Ainsworth

  Pronouns: she/her
  @rachaelevelyn
  
  Software Sustainability Institute

  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.

  

  Stefanie Butland

  Pronouns: she/her
  @stefaniebutland
  
  Ropensci

  Expertise:

  Building inclusive sustainable communities, Communicating in the open, Virtual events, Github, r, Open software peer review

  More about Stefanie

  I’m a tech community manager and reformed research scientist who can never resist connecting people, sharing knowledge, and helping people recognize the value they bring to a project. I am actively involved with the Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement as one of the inaugural Community Engagement Fellows, a mentor, and member. My research life involved bacteria, plants, insects, and mammals, first at the bench and then on a laptop. I was rOpenSci’s Community Manager from 2016 to 2022.

  

  Yo Yehudi

  Pronouns: they/them
  @yoyehudi
  

  Role in OLS: Executive Director, Business and Development Lead
  

  Expertise:

  Software development, Community building, Mentoring

  More about Yo

  Yo is the executive director and a co-founder of OLS. As an EngD student at the University of Manchester, Yo is studying pathogen-related data sharing and sustainability of open source software.Yo is a founder of Code is Science, and previously, they were editor for the PLOS Open Source Toolkit, editor emeritus at the Journal of Open Source Software, board member of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a software developer at the University of Cambridge, working on an open source biological data warehouse called InterMine.

  

  Hao Ye

  Pronouns: he/him
  @Hao_and_Y
  
  University of Pennsylvania / Community for Rigor

  Expertise:

  Ecology, Health sciences, R, Git and github, Version control, Time series analysis, Research reproducibility, Community management, Ally skills training

  More about Hao

  Hao is the Reproducibility Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. He is passionate about empowering others, whether through training in open science and reproducible research practices or promoting equity and inclusion by dismantling gatekeeping in academia.

  

  Arielle Bennett

  Pronouns: she/her
  @biotechchat
  
  The Alan Turing Institute

  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.

  

  Kate Simpson

  Pronouns: She/her
  @Dr_KateSimpson
  
  Imperial College London/ The Alan Turing Institute

  Expertise:

  Open community development, Basic open science principles, Basic github skills, Energy, carbon and enironmental data for buildings

  More about Kate

  I am an early career researcher focused on building energy use with a passion for learning about open community and open science practices that I can apply to my work. I am motivated to share academic knowledge with those who can benefit from it. I would love to see an open data community of practice including households, building practitioners and researchers.

  

  Iratxe Puebla

  Pronouns: she/her
  @IratxePuebla
  
  Asapbio

  Expertise:

  Preprints, Publishing, Open access, Data publication

  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
  @BSerranoSolano
  
  University Of Freiburg

  Expertise:

  Image analysis; data science; community; project management

  More about Beatriz

  Scientific Project Manager working in the project AI4Life (https://ai4life.eurobioimaging.eu/) with strong interest in outreach and community building.

  

  Bastian Greshake Tzovaras

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

  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
  
  University Of Bath & Drexel University

  Expertise:

  Open science hardware, Sti policy, Open educational resources

  More about Julieta

  Julieta Arancio is a postdoctoral researcher at Drexel University (US) & the University of Bath (UK), and an associate researcher at CENIT-UNSAM in Argentina. Her research focuses on social studies of open hardware, in particular for democratization of the production of science and technology. She is a co-organizer at reGOSH, the Latin America open science hardware network, and 1/3 of the mentorship program Open Hardware Makers.

  

  Serah Rono

  Pronouns: she, her, hers
  @serahrono
  
  The Carpentries

  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

  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

  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)

  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

  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
  @BSerranoSolano
  
  University Of Freiburg

  Expertise:

  Image analysis; data science; community; project management

  More about Beatriz

  Scientific Project Manager working in the project AI4Life (https://ai4life.eurobioimaging.eu/) with strong interest in outreach and community building.

  

  Joyce Kao

  Pronouns: She/Her
  @joyceykao
  
  University Hospital Rwth Aachen

  Expertise:

  Open innovation, Digitalization

  More about Joyce

  I am an enthusiast for using tech to make processes more efficient and reproducible. In a previous position, I co-founded the Open Innovation in Life Sciences association that promotes open science among early career researchers in Switzerland. Things that make me happy at the moment include playing piano and introducing chapter books from my childhood to my school-aged kid.

  

  Nicolás Palopoli

  Pronouns: Él/He/Him
  @npalopoli
  
  Universidad Nacional De Quilmes & Conicet

  Expertise:

  Bioinformática, Ciencia abierta, Educación, Bioinformatics, Open science, Education

  More about Nicolás

  Nicolás se unió a MetaDocencia desde sus inicios en marzo de 2020 y actualmente comparte la coordinación general y es chair del comité asesor. Además es Investigador Adjunto del CONICET y miembro del Grupo de Bioinformática Estructural de la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes en Argentina. Vive con su esposa y su hijo en Buenos Aires.

  

  Renato Alves

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

  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

  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
  
  University Hospital Rwth Aachen

  Expertise:

  Open innovation, Digitalization

  More about Joyce

  I am an enthusiast for using tech to make processes more efficient and reproducible. In a previous position, I co-founded the Open Innovation in Life Sciences association that promotes open science among early career researchers in Switzerland. Things that make me happy at the moment include playing piano and introducing chapter books from my childhood to my school-aged kid.

• Continuous integration

  

  Giuseppe Profiti

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

  Expertise:

  Teaching, Devops, Software development, Bioinformatics, Wiki*, Carpentries, Communities, Databases, Reproducible science

  More about Giuseppe

  Former university professor and researcher. IT specialist for R&D in bioinformatics. Wikipedian and open culture enthusiast.

• Course delivery

  

  Alexandra Holinski

  Pronouns: She/her
  
  EMBL-EBI

  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.

  

  Piraveen Gopalasingam

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

  Expertise:

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

  More about Piraveen

  I am a scientific training officer at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) where I mainly coordinate and support training in Latin America via the CABANA project (https://cabana.online/). My background lies in structural biology and biomedical sciences, and I am passionate about science communication, equity and inclusion.

• Course design

  

  Alexandra Holinski

  Pronouns: She/her
  
  EMBL-EBI

  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

  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.

  

  Piraveen Gopalasingam

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

  Expertise:

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

  More about Piraveen

  I am a scientific training officer at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) where I mainly coordinate and support training in Latin America via the CABANA project (https://cabana.online/). My background lies in structural biology and biomedical sciences, and I am passionate about science communication, equity and inclusion.

• Course development

  

  Alexandra Holinski

  Pronouns: She/her
  
  EMBL-EBI

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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
  
  The Alan Turing Institute

  Role in OLS: Director of Partnerships and Strategy
  

  Expertise:

  Community building, Mentoring, Data Science best practices, Reproducibility, Inclusive and collaborative practices, Python, Version Control, Funding Proposals, Bioinformatics, Algorithm design

  More about Malvika

  Malvika Sharan is a Senior Researcher at The Alan Turing Institute, where she leads a team of community managers and co-leads The Turing Way, a community-led handbook on data science. She is a co-founder of Open Life Science, and an active contributor of several open source/science projects. Connect with her on topics such as community building, open science, strategic collaboration and representation of marginalised members in leadership.

• Data analysis

  

  Yvan Le Bras

  Pronouns: He
  @Yvan2935
  
  French Museum Of Natural History

  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

  Expertise:

  Research data management, Digital scholarship, Libraries, Open research, Open data, Open scholarship, Open science, Research software engineering practice, Neurodiversity, Glam

  More about Jez

  Jez is Data Services Lead in The British Library’s Research Infrastructure Services team. He has over 10 years of experience developing and delivering research data management services and strategies at research-intensive higher education institutions in the UK, as part of a long-term goal to help communicate and collaborate more effectively using technology. He is an experienced teacher and is involved with The Carpentries as a Certified Instructor and early contributor to Library Carpentry. He is particularly interested in elevating the status of research software alongside research data in the scholarly record, and helping researchers develop the skills to make the most of this. He is a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, 2020 intake.

  

  Katrina Exter

  
  Flanders Marine Institute (Vliz)

  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

  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

  Expertise:

  Human rights; gender; sexuality; critical data studies

  More about Laura

  Laura recently submitted her PhD thesis on gender stereotyping in public sector data sharing in England. She is currently working at the Ada Lovelace Institute, an independent research institute helping to make data and AI work for people and society.

• Data visualisation.

  

  Anna Krystalli

  Pronouns: she/her
  @annakrystalli
  
  University Of Sheffield

  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/ The Alan Turing Institute

  Expertise:

  Open community development, Basic open science principles, Basic github skills, Energy, carbon and enironmental data for buildings

  More about Kate

  I am an early career researcher focused on building energy use with a passion for learning about open community and open science practices that I can apply to my work. I am motivated to share academic knowledge with those who can benefit from it. I would love to see an open data community of practice including households, building practitioners and researchers.

• Designing and developing training material

  

  Bérénice Batut

  Pronouns: she/her
  @bebatut
  
  University of Freiburg

  Role in OLS: Director of Learning and Technology
  

  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. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.

  

  Toby Hodges

  Pronouns: he/him
  @tbyhdgs
  
  The Carpentries

  Expertise:

  Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with git & github/gitlab, Publishing web content, Wordpress, Jekyll, Github/gitlab pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops

  More about Toby

  Toby is Director of Curriculum at The Carpentries, a community of practice building global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. Before that, he was a CSCCE CEFP2019 Fellow and community manager for EMBL Bio-IT, a community of bioinformaticians/computational biologists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.

• DevOps for science

  

  Ivo Jimenez

  Pronouns: he/him
  @ivotron
  
  Uc Santa Cruz

  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
  
  Atlanta Metropolitan State College, Adjunct Faculty and Laboratory Professional for Biology

  Expertise:

  Life sciences, Genetics, Synthetic biology, Accessibility

  More about Stephen

  Lifelong developmental geneticist with interest in synthetic biology and creating open domain tools for research

• Differentiation of mESC

  

  Marta Lloret Llinares

  Pronouns: She/her
  
  Embl-Ebi

  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

  Expertise:

  Research data management, Digital scholarship, Libraries, Open research, Open data, Open scholarship, Open science, Research software engineering practice, Neurodiversity, Glam

  More about Jez

  Jez is Data Services Lead in The British Library’s Research Infrastructure Services team. He has over 10 years of experience developing and delivering research data management services and strategies at research-intensive higher education institutions in the UK, as part of a long-term goal to help communicate and collaborate more effectively using technology. He is an experienced teacher and is involved with The Carpentries as a Certified Instructor and early contributor to Library Carpentry. He is particularly interested in elevating the status of research software alongside research data in the scholarly record, and helping researchers develop the skills to make the most of this. He is a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, 2020 intake.

• Diversity

  

  Emily Lescak

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

  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.

• Documentation

  

  Serah Rono

  Pronouns: she, her, hers
  @serahrono
  
  The Carpentries

  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.

  

  Carlos Martinez-Ortiz

  Pronouns: he/him
  @neocarlitos
  
  Netherlands eScience Center

  Expertise:

  Software sustainability, FAIR software, linked data

  More about Carlos

  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.

• Drosophila melanogaster

  

  Marta Lloret Llinares

  Pronouns: She/her
  
  Embl-Ebi

  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.

• Drug discovery

  

  Arielle Bennett

  Pronouns: she/her
  @biotechchat
  
  The Alan Turing Institute

  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.

• E-learning

  

  Emma Anne Harris

  @Emma_A_Harris
  
  Humboldt University

  Expertise:

  Training, Online training, E-learning, Open science, Research data management, FAIR Data, Research ethics, Research integrity, Responsible research, Innovation RRI

  More about Emma Anne

  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.

• Ecology

  

  Yvan Le Bras

  Pronouns: He
  @Yvan2935
  
  French Museum Of Natural History

  Expertise:

  Ecology, Data management, Data analysis

  More about Yvan

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

  

  Hao Ye

  Pronouns: he/him
  @Hao_and_Y
  
  University of Pennsylvania / Community for Rigor

  Expertise:

  Ecology, Health sciences, R, Git and github, Version control, Time series analysis, Research reproducibility, Community management, Ally skills training

  More about Hao

  Hao is the Reproducibility Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. He is passionate about empowering others, whether through training in open science and reproducible research practices or promoting equity and inclusion by dismantling gatekeeping in academia.

• Education

  

  Nicolás Palopoli

  Pronouns: Él/He/Him
  @npalopoli
  
  Universidad Nacional De Quilmes & Conicet

  Expertise:

  Bioinformática, Ciencia abierta, Educación, Bioinformatics, Open science, Education

  More about Nicolás

  Nicolás se unió a MetaDocencia desde sus inicios en marzo de 2020 y actualmente comparte la coordinación general y es chair del comité asesor. Además es Investigador Adjunto del CONICET y miembro del Grupo de Bioinformática Estructural de la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes en Argentina. Vive con su esposa y su hijo en Buenos Aires.

  

  Piraveen Gopalasingam

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

  Expertise:

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

  More about Piraveen

  I am a scientific training officer at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) where I mainly coordinate and support training in Latin America via the CABANA project (https://cabana.online/). My background lies in structural biology and biomedical sciences, and I am passionate about science communication, equity and inclusion.

• Engineering-based modelling

  

  Kate Simpson

  Pronouns: She/her
  @Dr_KateSimpson
  
  Imperial College London/ The Alan Turing Institute

  Expertise:

  Open community development, Basic open science principles, Basic github skills, Energy, carbon and enironmental data for buildings

  More about Kate

  I am an early career researcher focused on building energy use with a passion for learning about open community and open science practices that I can apply to my work. I am motivated to share academic knowledge with those who can benefit from it. I would love to see an open data community of practice including households, building practitioners and researchers.

• Environmental Archaeology

  

  Emma Karoune

  Pronouns: she/her
  @ekaroune
  
  The Alan Turing Institute And Historic England

  Expertise:

  Fair data, Sensitive data, Community building, Open publishing, Phytoliths, Environmental archaeology, Palaeoecology

  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 Senior Community Manager at the Alan Turing Institute on the project across the Health Programme and I am core team member of The Turing Way.

• Equality, Anti-discrimination and justice

  

  Laura Carter

  Pronouns: she/her
  @LauraC_rter
  
  University Of Essex

  Expertise:

  Human rights; gender; sexuality; critical data studies

  More about Laura

  Laura recently submitted her PhD thesis on gender stereotyping in public sector data sharing in England. She is currently working at the Ada Lovelace Institute, an independent research institute helping to make data and AI work for people and society.

• Ethical and reflexive research methodologies

  

  Laura Carter

  Pronouns: she/her
  @LauraC_rter
  
  University Of Essex

  Expertise:

  Human rights; gender; sexuality; critical data studies

  More about Laura

  Laura recently submitted her PhD thesis on gender stereotyping in public sector data sharing in England. She is currently working at the Ada Lovelace Institute, an independent research institute helping to make data and AI work for people and society.

• Ethnographic Skills

  

  Beth Duckles

  Pronouns: she, her
  @bduckles
  
  Insightful, Llc

  Expertise:

  Social science, Qualitative research, Sustainability, Standards, Mixed methods, Post academics

  More about Beth

  I’m a research consultant and social scientist and I support researchers in developing mixed methods and qualitative research skills. I also run a peer support group called Open Post Academics (OPA) where we encourage those with a PhD to share their skills and knowledge outside of the academy.

• Event planning

  

  Emily Lescak

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

  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

  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.

• EvoDevo

  

  Jo Havemann

  @openscicomm
  
  Access 2 Perspectives

  Expertise:

  Open Science, Open Access, Scientific Writing, Research Data Management, EvoDevo, Research in Africa

  More about Jo

  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.

• Evolutionary biology

  

  Joyce Kao

  Pronouns: She/Her
  @joyceykao
  
  University Hospital Rwth Aachen

  Expertise:

  Open innovation, Digitalization

  More about Joyce

  I am an enthusiast for using tech to make processes more efficient and reproducible. In a previous position, I co-founded the Open Innovation in Life Sciences association that promotes open science among early career researchers in Switzerland. Things that make me happy at the moment include playing piano and introducing chapter books from my childhood to my school-aged kid.

• FAIR

  

  Emma Karoune

  Pronouns: she/her
  @ekaroune
  
  The Alan Turing Institute And Historic England

  Expertise:

  Fair data, Sensitive data, Community building, Open publishing, Phytoliths, Environmental archaeology, Palaeoecology

  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 Senior Community Manager at the Alan Turing Institute on the project across the Health Programme and I am core team member of The Turing Way.

  

  Esther Plomp

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

  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.

  

  Louise Bezuidenhout

  Pronouns: she/her
  @loubezuidenhout
  
  University Of Oxford And University Of Cape Town

  Expertise:

  Open Science, Open Data, FAIR, LMIC research/ers, Social studies of data

  More about Louise

  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.

  

  Carlos Martinez-Ortiz

  Pronouns: he/him
  @neocarlitos
  
  Netherlands eScience Center

  Expertise:

  Software sustainability, FAIR software, linked data

  More about Carlos

  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.

• FAIR Data

  

  Emma Anne Harris

  @Emma_A_Harris
  
  Humboldt University

  Expertise:

  Training, Online training, E-learning, Open science, Research data management, FAIR Data, Research ethics, Research integrity, Responsible research, Innovation RRI

  More about Emma Anne

  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.

  

  Philippe Rocca-Serra

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

  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)

• FAIR data

  

  Katrina Exter

  
  Flanders Marine Institute (Vliz)

  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.

• FAIR principles

  

  Alexandra Holinski

  Pronouns: She/her
  
  EMBL-EBI

  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.

• FAIR training materials

  

  Melissa Burke

  Pronouns: She/Her
  @burkemlou
  
  Australian Biocommons

  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.

• FAIRification

  

  Edward Wallace

  Pronouns: he, him
  @ewjwallace
  
  University Of Edinburgh

  Expertise:

  Gene expression, Rna, Yeast & fungi, Bioinformatics, Open science, Data literacy, Open science in project and teaching context, Practical github, R packages, Balancing open science with the rest of your career;

  More about Edward

  My research group studies how organisms respond to their environment, focusing on molecular mechanisms used by fungi. We collect and analyze genome-scale datasets to understand how fungi dynamically reorganize their RNA and protein to adapt to environmental change. We also produce open-science software tools, including tidyqpcr for quantitative PCR analysis in the tidyverse, and riboviz for ribosome profiling analysis. Both of these packages are going through software review and I’m learning a lot from the process. Alongside my research, I’m an open science advocate and teach data literacy to scientists, working with The Carpentries and Edinburgh Carpentries.

• Feminist and queer approaches to tech and data

  

  Laura Carter

  Pronouns: she/her
  @LauraC_rter
  
  University Of Essex

  Expertise:

  Human rights; gender; sexuality; critical data studies

  More about Laura

  Laura recently submitted her PhD thesis on gender stereotyping in public sector data sharing in England. She is currently working at the Ada Lovelace Institute, an independent research institute helping to make data and AI work for people and society.

• Fieldwork

  

  Lena Karvovskaya

  Pronouns: She/her
  @Langdata
  
  Vu Amsterdam

  Expertise:

  Community management, Rdm, Open science

  More about Lena

  I am Community Manager RDM and Open Science at VU Amsterdam. My background is in theoretical linguistics. My goal is to help colleagues connect and learn from each other and with each other

  

  Lena Karvovskaya

  Pronouns: She/her
  @Langdata
  
  Vu Amsterdam

  Expertise:

  Community management, Rdm, Open science

  More about Lena

  I am Community Manager RDM and Open Science at VU Amsterdam. My background is in theoretical linguistics. My goal is to help colleagues connect and learn from each other and with each other

• Full-stack developer

  

  Renato Alves

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

  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.

• Functional Genomics

  

  Philippe Rocca-Serra

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

  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)

• Functional genomics

  

  Melissa Burke

  Pronouns: She/Her
  @burkemlou
  
  Australian Biocommons

  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.

• GIS

  

  Anna Krystalli

  Pronouns: she/her
  @annakrystalli
  
  University Of Sheffield

  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.

• Galaxy

  

  Bérénice Batut

  Pronouns: she/her
  @bebatut
  
  University of Freiburg

  Role in OLS: Director of Learning and Technology
  

  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. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.

  

  Wendi Bacon

  Pronouns: She/her
  
  Embl-Ebi

  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.

• Galaxy training

  

  Bérénice Batut

  Pronouns: she/her
  @bebatut
  
  University of Freiburg

  Role in OLS: Director of Learning and Technology
  

  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. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.

• Gender and stereotyping

  

  Laura Carter

  Pronouns: she/her
  @LauraC_rter
  
  University Of Essex

  Expertise:

  Human rights; gender; sexuality; critical data studies

  More about Laura

  Laura recently submitted her PhD thesis on gender stereotyping in public sector data sharing in England. She is currently working at the Ada Lovelace Institute, an independent research institute helping to make data and AI work for people and society.

• Gene expression

  

  Marta Lloret Llinares

  Pronouns: She/her
  
  Embl-Ebi

  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.

• Genomics

  

  Sonika Tyagi

  Pronouns: she/her
  @tsonika
  
  Monash University Melbourne

  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.

• Git

  

  Bérénice Batut

  Pronouns: she/her
  @bebatut
  
  University of Freiburg

  Role in OLS: Director of Learning and Technology
  

  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. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.

  

  Jez Cope

  Pronouns: he/him
  @jezcope
  
  The British Library

  Expertise:

  Research data management, Digital scholarship, Libraries, Open research, Open data, Open scholarship, Open science, Research software engineering practice, Neurodiversity, Glam

  More about Jez

  Jez is Data Services Lead in The British Library’s Research Infrastructure Services team. He has over 10 years of experience developing and delivering research data management services and strategies at research-intensive higher education institutions in the UK, as part of a long-term goal to help communicate and collaborate more effectively using technology. He is an experienced teacher and is involved with The Carpentries as a Certified Instructor and early contributor to Library Carpentry. He is particularly interested in elevating the status of research software alongside research data in the scholarly record, and helping researchers develop the skills to make the most of this. He is a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, 2020 intake.

  

  Joel Ostblom

  Pronouns: he/him
  @joelostblom
  
  University Of British Columbia

  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.

  

  Malvika Sharan

  Pronouns: she/her
  @malvikasharan
  
  The Alan Turing Institute

  Role in OLS: Director of Partnerships and Strategy
  

  Expertise:

  Community building, Mentoring, Data Science best practices, Reproducibility, Inclusive and collaborative practices, Python, Version Control, Funding Proposals, Bioinformatics, Algorithm design

  More about Malvika

  Malvika Sharan is a Senior Researcher at The Alan Turing Institute, where she leads a team of community managers and co-leads The Turing Way, a community-led handbook on data science. She is a co-founder of Open Life Science, and an active contributor of several open source/science projects. Connect with her on topics such as community building, open science, strategic collaboration and representation of marginalised members in leadership.

  

  Giuseppe Profiti

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

  Expertise:

  Teaching, Devops, Software development, Bioinformatics, Wiki*, Carpentries, Communities, Databases, Reproducible science

  More about Giuseppe

  Former university professor and researcher. IT specialist for R&D in bioinformatics. Wikipedian and open culture enthusiast.

  

  Toby Hodges

  Pronouns: he/him
  @tbyhdgs
  
  The Carpentries

  Expertise:

  Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with git & github/gitlab, Publishing web content, Wordpress, Jekyll, Github/gitlab pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops

  More about Toby

  Toby is Director of Curriculum at The Carpentries, a community of practice building global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. Before that, he was a CSCCE CEFP2019 Fellow and community manager for EMBL Bio-IT, a community of bioinformaticians/computational biologists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.

  

  Hao Ye

  Pronouns: he/him
  @Hao_and_Y
  
  University of Pennsylvania / Community for Rigor

  Expertise:

  Ecology, Health sciences, R, Git and github, Version control, Time series analysis, Research reproducibility, Community management, Ally skills training

  More about Hao

  Hao is the Reproducibility Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. He is passionate about empowering others, whether through training in open science and reproducible research practices or promoting equity and inclusion by dismantling gatekeeping in academia.

• GitHub

  

  Bérénice Batut

  Pronouns: she/her
  @bebatut
  
  University of Freiburg

  Role in OLS: Director of Learning and Technology
  

  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. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.

  

  Rachael Ainsworth

  Pronouns: she/her
  @rachaelevelyn
  
  Software Sustainability Institute

  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.

  

  Sam Van Stroud

  
  Ucl

  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.

  

  Sarah Gibson

  Pronouns: she/her
  @drsarahlgibson
  
  The Alan Turing Institute

  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.

  

  Stefanie Butland

  Pronouns: she/her
  @stefaniebutland
  
  Ropensci

  Expertise:

  Building inclusive sustainable communities, Communicating in the open, Virtual events, Github, r, Open software peer review

  More about Stefanie

  I’m a tech community manager and reformed research scientist who can never resist connecting people, sharing knowledge, and helping people recognize the value they bring to a project. I am actively involved with the Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement as one of the inaugural Community Engagement Fellows, a mentor, and member. My research life involved bacteria, plants, insects, and mammals, first at the bench and then on a laptop. I was rOpenSci’s Community Manager from 2016 to 2022.

  

  Toby Hodges

  Pronouns: he/him
  @tbyhdgs
  
  The Carpentries

  Expertise:

  Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with git & github/gitlab, Publishing web content, Wordpress, Jekyll, Github/gitlab pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops

  More about Toby

  Toby is Director of Curriculum at The Carpentries, a community of practice building global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. Before that, he was a CSCCE CEFP2019 Fellow and community manager for EMBL Bio-IT, a community of bioinformaticians/computational biologists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.

  

  Hao Ye

  Pronouns: he/him
  @Hao_and_Y
  
  University of Pennsylvania / Community for Rigor

  Expertise:

  Ecology, Health sciences, R, Git and github, Version control, Time series analysis, Research reproducibility, Community management, Ally skills training

  More about Hao

  Hao is the Reproducibility Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. He is passionate about empowering others, whether through training in open science and reproducible research practices or promoting equity and inclusion by dismantling gatekeeping in academia.

• GitHub/GitLab Pages

  

  Bérénice Batut

  Pronouns: she/her
  @bebatut
  
  University of Freiburg

  Role in OLS: Director of Learning and Technology
  

  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. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.

  

  Toby Hodges

  Pronouns: he/him
  @tbyhdgs
  
  The Carpentries

  Expertise:

  Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with git & github/gitlab, Publishing web content, Wordpress, Jekyll, Github/gitlab pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops

  More about Toby

  Toby is Director of Curriculum at The Carpentries, a community of practice building global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. Before that, he was a CSCCE CEFP2019 Fellow and community manager for EMBL Bio-IT, a community of bioinformaticians/computational biologists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.

• GitLab

  

  Bérénice Batut

  Pronouns: she/her
  @bebatut
  
  University of Freiburg

  Role in OLS: Director of Learning and Technology
  

  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. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.

  

  Toby Hodges

  Pronouns: he/him
  @tbyhdgs
  
  The Carpentries

  Expertise:

  Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with git & github/gitlab, Publishing web content, Wordpress, Jekyll, Github/gitlab pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops

  More about Toby

  Toby is Director of Curriculum at The Carpentries, a community of practice building global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. Before that, he was a CSCCE CEFP2019 Fellow and community manager for EMBL Bio-IT, a community of bioinformaticians/computational biologists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.

• Go to market

  

  Meag Doherty

  Pronouns: she/her
  @emdohh
  

  Expertise:

  Product strategy, Go to market, User research

  More about Meag

  A designer and open source advocate with experience building on and offline communities in open government and health and life sciences

• Health data science and artificial intelligence/Biostatistics

  

  Laura Ación

  Pronouns: she/ella
  @_lacion_
  
  MetaDocencia

  Expertise:

  Ethics in artificial intelligence, Health data science, Responsible use of data, Latin america, Open education, Community building

  More about Laura

  I am a tenured researcher leading a collaborative health data science research group. I also work to improve data analysis teaching and practice. I co-founded MetaDocencia, an open, collaborative, and Spanish-speaking education community. One of the roles I enjoy most is mentoring and teaching others.

• High-throughput sequencing

  

  Bérénice Batut

  Pronouns: she/her
  @bebatut
  
  University of Freiburg

  Role in OLS: Director of Learning and Technology
  

  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. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.

• Human rights

  

  Laura Carter

  Pronouns: she/her
  @LauraC_rter
  
  University Of Essex

  Expertise:

  Human rights; gender; sexuality; critical data studies

  More about Laura

  Laura recently submitted her PhD thesis on gender stereotyping in public sector data sharing in England. She is currently working at the Ada Lovelace Institute, an independent research institute helping to make data and AI work for people and society.

• Image analysis

  

  Joel Ostblom

  Pronouns: he/him
  @joelostblom
  
  University Of British Columbia

  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.

• Imaging

  

  Beatriz Serrano-Solano

  Pronouns: she/her
  @BSerranoSolano
  
  University Of Freiburg

  Expertise:

  Image analysis; data science; community; project management

  More about Beatriz

  Scientific Project Manager working in the project AI4Life (https://ai4life.eurobioimaging.eu/) with strong interest in outreach and community building.

• Impacts of climate change on biodiversity

  

  Tainá Rocha

  @Tai_Rocha_
  
  Botanical Garden Of Rio De Janeiro

  Expertise:

  Patterns of biodiversity distribution in time and space, Impacts of climate change on biodiversity, Spatial analysis

  More about Tainá

  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 🙃 .

• Inclusion

  

  Emily Lescak

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

  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.

  

  Hao Ye

  Pronouns: he/him
  @Hao_and_Y
  
  University of Pennsylvania / Community for Rigor

  Expertise:

  Ecology, Health sciences, R, Git and github, Version control, Time series analysis, Research reproducibility, Community management, Ally skills training

  More about Hao

  Hao is the Reproducibility Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. He is passionate about empowering others, whether through training in open science and reproducible research practices or promoting equity and inclusion by dismantling gatekeeping in academia.

• Inclusive and collaborative practices

  

  Malvika Sharan

  Pronouns: she/her
  @malvikasharan
  
  The Alan Turing Institute

  Role in OLS: Director of Partnerships and Strategy
  

  Expertise:

  Community building, Mentoring, Data Science best practices, Reproducibility, Inclusive and collaborative practices, Python, Version Control, Funding Proposals, Bioinformatics, Algorithm design

  More about Malvika

  Malvika Sharan is a Senior Researcher at The Alan Turing Institute, where she leads a team of community managers and co-leads The Turing Way, a community-led handbook on data science. She is a co-founder of Open Life Science, and an active contributor of several open source/science projects. Connect with her on topics such as community building, open science, strategic collaboration and representation of marginalised members in leadership.

• Innovation RRI

  

  Emma Anne Harris

  @Emma_A_Harris
  
  Humboldt University

  Expertise:

  Training, Online training, E-learning, Open science, Research data management, FAIR Data, Research ethics, Research integrity, Responsible research, Innovation RRI

  More about Emma Anne

  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.

• Insects

  

  Kaitlin Stack Whitney

  Pronouns: she/her
  @kstackwhitney
  
  Rochester Institute Of Technology

  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.

• Introductory data science

  

  Joel Ostblom

  Pronouns: he/him
  @joelostblom
  
  University Of British Columbia

  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.

• Isotopes

  

  Esther Plomp

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

  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.

• Jekyll

  

  Bérénice Batut

  Pronouns: she/her
  @bebatut
  
  University of Freiburg

  Role in OLS: Director of Learning and Technology
  

  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. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.

  

  Toby Hodges

  Pronouns: he/him
  @tbyhdgs
  
  The Carpentries

  Expertise:

  Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with git & github/gitlab, Publishing web content, Wordpress, Jekyll, Github/gitlab pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops

  More about Toby

  Toby is Director of Curriculum at The Carpentries, a community of practice building global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. Before that, he was a CSCCE CEFP2019 Fellow and community manager for EMBL Bio-IT, a community of bioinformaticians/computational biologists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.

• LMIC research/ers

  

  Louise Bezuidenhout

  Pronouns: she/her
  @loubezuidenhout
  
  University Of Oxford And University Of Cape Town

  Expertise:

  Open Science, Open Data, FAIR, LMIC research/ers, Social studies of data

  More about Louise

  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.

• Leadership

  

  Emily Lescak

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

  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.

• Libraries

  

  Jez Cope

  Pronouns: he/him
  @jezcope
  
  The British Library

  Expertise:

  Research data management, Digital scholarship, Libraries, Open research, Open data, Open scholarship, Open science, Research software engineering practice, Neurodiversity, Glam

  More about Jez

  Jez is Data Services Lead in The British Library’s Research Infrastructure Services team. He has over 10 years of experience developing and delivering research data management services and strategies at research-intensive higher education institutions in the UK, as part of a long-term goal to help communicate and collaborate more effectively using technology. He is an experienced teacher and is involved with The Carpentries as a Certified Instructor and early contributor to Library Carpentry. He is particularly interested in elevating the status of research software alongside research data in the scholarly record, and helping researchers develop the skills to make the most of this. He is a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, 2020 intake.

• Life Science

  

  Melissa Burke

  Pronouns: She/Her
  @burkemlou
  
  Australian Biocommons

  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.

• Life science communications

  

  Adam Gristwood

  Pronouns: he/him
  @gristwood
  
  Freelance Science Writer And Communications Trainer

  Expertise:

  Life science communications

  More about Adam

  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.

• Linked data

  

  Julieta Arancio

  Pronouns: She/her
  @cassandreces
  
  University Of Bath & Drexel University

  Expertise:

  Open science hardware, Sti policy, Open educational resources

  More about Julieta

  Julieta Arancio is a postdoctoral researcher at Drexel University (US) & the University of Bath (UK), and an associate researcher at CENIT-UNSAM in Argentina. Her research focuses on social studies of open hardware, in particular for democratization of the production of science and technology. She is a co-organizer at reGOSH, the Latin America open science hardware network, and 1/3 of the mentorship program Open Hardware Makers.

  

  Carlos Martinez-Ortiz

  Pronouns: he/him
  @neocarlitos
  
  Netherlands eScience Center

  Expertise:

  Software sustainability, FAIR software, linked data

  More about Carlos

  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.

• Machine learning

  

  Fotis Psomopoulos

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

  Expertise:

  Bioinformatics, Machine learning, Training

  More about Fotis

  Doing Bioinformatics and ML @ CERTH, Thessaloníki, GR, fan of training, Open Science and e-infras.

  

  Harpreet Singh

  
  Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya Jalandhar

  Expertise:

  Bioinformatics, Molecular Modeling, Machine learning, R Programming

  More about Harpreet

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

  

  Martina Vilas

  Pronouns: She/her
  @martinagvilas
  
  Max-Planck-Institute Ae

  Expertise:

  Open source, Open source documentation, Open infrastructure, Open science communities, Version control, Computational Modeling, Machine learning, Neuroimaging, Neuroscience

  More about Martina

  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.

  

  Sam Van Stroud

  
  Ucl

  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

  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.

• Maintaining a blog

  

  Stefanie Butland

  Pronouns: she/her
  @stefaniebutland
  
  Ropensci

  Expertise:

  Building inclusive sustainable communities, Communicating in the open, Virtual events, Github, r, Open software peer review

  More about Stefanie

  I’m a tech community manager and reformed research scientist who can never resist connecting people, sharing knowledge, and helping people recognize the value they bring to a project. I am actively involved with the Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement as one of the inaugural Community Engagement Fellows, a mentor, and member. My research life involved bacteria, plants, insects, and mammals, first at the bench and then on a laptop. I was rOpenSci’s Community Manager from 2016 to 2022.

• Marine data

  

  Katrina Exter

  
  Flanders Marine Institute (Vliz)

  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.

• Mentoring

  

  Malvika Sharan

  Pronouns: she/her
  @malvikasharan
  
  The Alan Turing Institute

  Role in OLS: Director of Partnerships and Strategy
  

  Expertise:

  Community building, Mentoring, Data Science best practices, Reproducibility, Inclusive and collaborative practices, Python, Version Control, Funding Proposals, Bioinformatics, Algorithm design

  More about Malvika

  Malvika Sharan is a Senior Researcher at The Alan Turing Institute, where she leads a team of community managers and co-leads The Turing Way, a community-led handbook on data science. She is a co-founder of Open Life Science, and an active contributor of several open source/science projects. Connect with her on topics such as community building, open science, strategic collaboration and representation of marginalised members in leadership.

  

  Prash Suravajhala

  Pronouns: He/Him
  @prashbio
  
  Bioclues.Org

  Expertise:

  Systems genomics, bioinformatics

  More about Prash

  A Systems Biologist with wide interests in the areas on functional genomics, protein informatics and interactions. *Principal Investigator for four or more projects coalescing keywords #HypotheticalProteins #VitaminK #LncRNAs #ProstateCancer *Founder of Bioclues.org, India’s largest bioinformatics society working for mentor-mentee relationships since 2005. *Advocate #OpenAcess and #OpenSource

  

  Yo Yehudi

  Pronouns: they/them
  @yoyehudi
  

  Role in OLS: Executive Director, Business and Development Lead
  

  Expertise:

  Software development, Community building, Mentoring

  More about Yo

  Yo is the executive director and a co-founder of OLS. As an EngD student at the University of Manchester, Yo is studying pathogen-related data sharing and sustainability of open source software.Yo is a founder of Code is Science, and previously, they were editor for the PLOS Open Source Toolkit, editor emeritus at the Journal of Open Source Software, board member of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a software developer at the University of Cambridge, working on an open source biological data warehouse called InterMine.

• Meta-transcriptomics

  

  Renato Alves

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

  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.

• Metabolomics

  

  Philippe Rocca-Serra

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

  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)

• Metagenomics

  

  Bérénice Batut

  Pronouns: she/her
  @bebatut
  
  University of Freiburg

  Role in OLS: Director of Learning and Technology
  

  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. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.

  

  Renato Alves

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

  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.

• Methods of interactive delivery (face-to-face and virtual courses)

  

  Alexandra Holinski

  Pronouns: She/her
  
  EMBL-EBI

  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.

• Mixed-method research

  

  Kate Simpson

  Pronouns: She/her
  @Dr_KateSimpson
  
  Imperial College London/ The Alan Turing Institute

  Expertise:

  Open community development, Basic open science principles, Basic github skills, Energy, carbon and enironmental data for buildings

  More about Kate

  I am an early career researcher focused on building energy use with a passion for learning about open community and open science practices that I can apply to my work. I am motivated to share academic knowledge with those who can benefit from it. I would love to see an open data community of practice including households, building practitioners and researchers.

• Molecular Modeling

  

  Harpreet Singh

  
  Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya Jalandhar

  Expertise:

  Bioinformatics, Molecular Modeling, Machine learning, R Programming

  More about Harpreet

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

• Molecular biology

  

  Marta Lloret Llinares

  Pronouns: She/her
  
  Embl-Ebi

  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.

• Molecular interactions

  

  Nicolás Palopoli

  Pronouns: Él/He/Him
  @npalopoli
  
  Universidad Nacional De Quilmes & Conicet

  Expertise:

  Bioinformática, Ciencia abierta, Educación, Bioinformatics, Open science, Education

  More about Nicolás

  Nicolás se unió a MetaDocencia desde sus inicios en marzo de 2020 y actualmente comparte la coordinación general y es chair del comité asesor. Además es Investigador Adjunto del CONICET y miembro del Grupo de Bioinformática Estructural de la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes en Argentina. Vive con su esposa y su hijo en Buenos Aires.

• Neuroimaging

  

  Martina Vilas

  Pronouns: She/her
  @martinagvilas
  
  Max-Planck-Institute Ae

  Expertise:

  Open source, Open source documentation, Open infrastructure, Open science communities, Version control, Computational Modeling, Machine learning, Neuroimaging, Neuroscience

  More about Martina

  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.

• Neuroinformatics

  

  Christine Rogers

  Pronouns: she/her
  @xtinerogers
  
  Mcgill University

  Expertise:

  Neuroinformatics, Open science, Open source, Research software

  More about Christine

  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.

• Neuroscience

  

  Martina Vilas

  Pronouns: She/her
  @martinagvilas
  
  Max-Planck-Institute Ae

  Expertise:

  Open source, Open source documentation, Open infrastructure, Open science communities, Version control, Computational Modeling, Machine learning, Neuroimaging, Neuroscience

  More about Martina

  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.

• Neuroscience.

  

  Arielle Bennett

  Pronouns: she/her
  @biotechchat
  
  The Alan Turing Institute

  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.

• No listed expertise

  

  Alex Chan

  Pronouns: they/she
  @alexwlchan
  
  Wellcome Collection

  

  Margaret Wanjiku

  Pronouns: she/her
  @meg_wanjiku
  
  International Centre Of Insect Physiology And Ecology

  Expertise:

  Community building, Bioinformatics
• Novel ecosystems

  

  Kaitlin Stack Whitney

  Pronouns: she/her
  @kstackwhitney
  
  Rochester Institute Of Technology

  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.

• OER

  

  Kaitlin Stack Whitney

  Pronouns: she/her
  @kstackwhitney
  
  Rochester Institute Of Technology

  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.

• Online training

  

  Alexandra Holinski

  Pronouns: She/her
  
  EMBL-EBI

  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.

  

  Emma Anne Harris

  @Emma_A_Harris
  
  Humboldt University

  Expertise:

  Training, Online training, E-learning, Open science, Research data management, FAIR Data, Research ethics, Research integrity, Responsible research, Innovation RRI

  More about Emma Anne

  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.

  

  Marta Lloret Llinares

  Pronouns: She/her
  
  Embl-Ebi

  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.

• Ontologies

  

  Beatriz Serrano-Solano

  Pronouns: she/her
  @BSerranoSolano
  
  University Of Freiburg

  Expertise:

  Image analysis; data science; community; project management

  More about Beatriz

  Scientific Project Manager working in the project AI4Life (https://ai4life.eurobioimaging.eu/) with strong interest in outreach and community building.

  

  Philippe Rocca-Serra

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

  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)

• Open Access

  

  Jo Havemann

  @openscicomm
  
  Access 2 Perspectives

  Expertise:

  Open Science, Open Access, Scientific Writing, Research Data Management, EvoDevo, Research in Africa

  More about Jo

  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.

• Open Data

  

  Louise Bezuidenhout

  Pronouns: she/her
  @loubezuidenhout
  
  University Of Oxford And University Of Cape Town

  Expertise:

  Open Science, Open Data, FAIR, LMIC research/ers, Social studies of data

  More about Louise

  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.

• Open Science

  

  Alexandra Holinski

  Pronouns: She/her
  
  EMBL-EBI

  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.

  

  Fotis Psomopoulos

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

  Expertise:

  Bioinformatics, Machine learning, Training

  More about Fotis

  Doing Bioinformatics and ML @ CERTH, Thessaloníki, GR, fan of training, Open Science and e-infras.

  

  Jo Havemann

  @openscicomm
  
  Access 2 Perspectives

  Expertise:

  Open Science, Open Access, Scientific Writing, Research Data Management, EvoDevo, Research in Africa

  More about Jo

  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.

  

  Louise Bezuidenhout

  Pronouns: she/her
  @loubezuidenhout
  
  University Of Oxford And University Of Cape Town

  Expertise:

  Open Science, Open Data, FAIR, LMIC research/ers, Social studies of data

  More about Louise

  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.

• Open Science/Research

  

  Rachael Ainsworth

  Pronouns: she/her
  @rachaelevelyn
  
  Software Sustainability Institute

  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.

• Open access

  

  Demitra Ellina

  Pronouns: She/her
  @j_ellina
  
  F1000Research

  Expertise:

  Open science, Open research, Open access, Open peer review, Preprints

  More about Demitra

  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.

• Open access publishing

  

  Jez Cope

  Pronouns: he/him
  @jezcope
  
  The British Library

  Expertise:

  Research data management, Digital scholarship, Libraries, Open research, Open data, Open scholarship, Open science, Research software engineering practice, Neurodiversity, Glam

  More about Jez

  Jez is Data Services Lead in The British Library’s Research Infrastructure Services team. He has over 10 years of experience developing and delivering research data management services and strategies at research-intensive higher education institutions in the UK, as part of a long-term goal to help communicate and collaborate more effectively using technology. He is an experienced teacher and is involved with The Carpentries as a Certified Instructor and early contributor to Library Carpentry. He is particularly interested in elevating the status of research software alongside research data in the scholarly record, and helping researchers develop the skills to make the most of this. He is a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, 2020 intake.

• Open and public databases and sources

  

  Giuseppe Profiti

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

  Expertise:

  Teaching, Devops, Software development, Bioinformatics, Wiki*, Carpentries, Communities, Databases, Reproducible science

  More about Giuseppe

  Former university professor and researcher. IT specialist for R&D in bioinformatics. Wikipedian and open culture enthusiast.

• Open and reproducible research best practices

  

  Aleksandra Nenadic

  Pronouns: she/her/hers
  @aleks_nenadic
  
  University Of Manchester

  Expertise:

  Open and reproducible research best practices, Training and teaching tech to researchers, Pedagogical approaches to instructor training and curricula development

  More about Aleksandra

  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.

• Open data

  

  Esther Plomp

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

  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.

  

  Katrina Exter

  
  Flanders Marine Institute (Vliz)

  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.

• Open education

  

  Laura Ación

  Pronouns: she/ella
  @_lacion_
  
  MetaDocencia

  Expertise:

  Ethics in artificial intelligence, Health data science, Responsible use of data, Latin america, Open education, Community building

  More about Laura

  I am a tenured researcher leading a collaborative health data science research group. I also work to improve data analysis teaching and practice. I co-founded MetaDocencia, an open, collaborative, and Spanish-speaking education community. One of the roles I enjoy most is mentoring and teaching others.

• Open infrastructure

  

  Martina Vilas

  Pronouns: She/her
  @martinagvilas
  
  Max-Planck-Institute Ae

  Expertise:

  Open source, Open source documentation, Open infrastructure, Open science communities, Version control, Computational Modeling, Machine learning, Neuroimaging, Neuroscience

  More about Martina

  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.

• Open infrastructure for science

  

  Ivo Jimenez

  Pronouns: he/him
  @ivotron
  
  Uc Santa Cruz

  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.

• Open peer review

  

  Demitra Ellina

  Pronouns: She/her
  @j_ellina
  
  F1000Research

  Expertise:

  Open science, Open research, Open access, Open peer review, Preprints

  More about Demitra

  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.

• Open protocols

  

  Esther Plomp

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

  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.

• Open publishing

  

  Danny Garside

  Pronouns: he/him
  @da5nsy
  
  Nih

  Expertise:

  Registered reports, Peer review, Open publishing, Preprints

  More about Danny

  I’m a color vision researcher and open science advocate.

• Open research

  

  Demitra Ellina

  Pronouns: She/her
  @j_ellina
  
  F1000Research

  Expertise:

  Open science, Open research, Open access, Open peer review, Preprints

  More about Demitra

  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.

• Open scholarship

  

  Kate Simpson

  Pronouns: She/her
  @Dr_KateSimpson
  
  Imperial College London/ The Alan Turing Institute

  Expertise:

  Open community development, Basic open science principles, Basic github skills, Energy, carbon and enironmental data for buildings

  More about Kate

  I am an early career researcher focused on building energy use with a passion for learning about open community and open science practices that I can apply to my work. I am motivated to share academic knowledge with those who can benefit from it. I would love to see an open data community of practice including households, building practitioners and researchers.

• Open science

  

  Christine Rogers

  Pronouns: she/her
  @xtinerogers
  
  Mcgill University

  Expertise:

  Neuroinformatics, Open science, Open source, Research software

  More about Christine

  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.

  

  Demitra Ellina

  Pronouns: She/her
  @j_ellina
  
  F1000Research

  Expertise:

  Open science, Open research, Open access, Open peer review, Preprints

  More about Demitra

  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.

  

  Emma Anne Harris

  @Emma_A_Harris
  
  Humboldt University

  Expertise:

  Training, Online training, E-learning, Open science, Research data management, FAIR Data, Research ethics, Research integrity, Responsible research, Innovation RRI

  More about Emma Anne

  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.

• Open science communities

  

  Martina Vilas

  Pronouns: She/her
  @martinagvilas
  
  Max-Planck-Institute Ae

  Expertise:

  Open source, Open source documentation, Open infrastructure, Open science communities, Version control, Computational Modeling, Machine learning, Neuroimaging, Neuroscience

  More about Martina

  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.

• Open science hardware

  

  Julieta Arancio

  Pronouns: She/her
  @cassandreces
  
  University Of Bath & Drexel University

  Expertise:

  Open science hardware, Sti policy, Open educational resources

  More about Julieta

  Julieta Arancio is a postdoctoral researcher at Drexel University (US) & the University of Bath (UK), and an associate researcher at CENIT-UNSAM in Argentina. Her research focuses on social studies of open hardware, in particular for democratization of the production of science and technology. She is a co-organizer at reGOSH, the Latin America open science hardware network, and 1/3 of the mentorship program Open Hardware Makers.

• Open software peer review

  

  Stefanie Butland

  Pronouns: she/her
  @stefaniebutland
  
  Ropensci

  Expertise:

  Building inclusive sustainable communities, Communicating in the open, Virtual events, Github, r, Open software peer review

  More about Stefanie

  I’m a tech community manager and reformed research scientist who can never resist connecting people, sharing knowledge, and helping people recognize the value they bring to a project. I am actively involved with the Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement as one of the inaugural Community Engagement Fellows, a mentor, and member. My research life involved bacteria, plants, insects, and mammals, first at the bench and then on a laptop. I was rOpenSci’s Community Manager from 2016 to 2022.

• Open source

  

  Christine Rogers

  Pronouns: she/her
  @xtinerogers
  
  Mcgill University

  Expertise:

  Neuroinformatics, Open science, Open source, Research software

  More about Christine

  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.

  

  Jez Cope

  Pronouns: he/him
  @jezcope
  
  The British Library

  Expertise:

  Research data management, Digital scholarship, Libraries, Open research, Open data, Open scholarship, Open science, Research software engineering practice, Neurodiversity, Glam

  More about Jez

  Jez is Data Services Lead in The British Library’s Research Infrastructure Services team. He has over 10 years of experience developing and delivering research data management services and strategies at research-intensive higher education institutions in the UK, as part of a long-term goal to help communicate and collaborate more effectively using technology. He is an experienced teacher and is involved with The Carpentries as a Certified Instructor and early contributor to Library Carpentry. He is particularly interested in elevating the status of research software alongside research data in the scholarly record, and helping researchers develop the skills to make the most of this. He is a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, 2020 intake.

  

  Martina Vilas

  Pronouns: She/her
  @martinagvilas
  
  Max-Planck-Institute Ae

  Expertise:

  Open source, Open source documentation, Open infrastructure, Open science communities, Version control, Computational Modeling, Machine learning, Neuroimaging, Neuroscience

  More about Martina

  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.

  

  Serah Rono

  Pronouns: she, her, hers
  @serahrono
  
  The Carpentries

  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.

• Open source documentation

  

  Martina Vilas

  Pronouns: She/her
  @martinagvilas
  
  Max-Planck-Institute Ae

  Expertise:

  Open source, Open source documentation, Open infrastructure, Open science communities, Version control, Computational Modeling, Machine learning, Neuroimaging, Neuroscience

  More about Martina

  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.

• Open workflows

  

  Emma Karoune

  Pronouns: she/her
  @ekaroune
  
  The Alan Turing Institute And Historic England

  Expertise:

  Fair data, Sensitive data, Community building, Open publishing, Phytoliths, Environmental archaeology, Palaeoecology

  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 Senior Community Manager at the Alan Turing Institute on the project across the Health Programme and I am core team member of The Turing Way.

• Organising events

  

  Rachael Ainsworth

  Pronouns: she/her
  @rachaelevelyn
  
  Software Sustainability Institute

  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.

• Osteology

  

  Esther Plomp

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

  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.

• Outreach

  

  Serah Rono

  Pronouns: she, her, hers
  @serahrono
  
  The Carpentries

  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.

• Palaeoecology

  

  Emma Karoune

  Pronouns: she/her
  @ekaroune
  
  The Alan Turing Institute And Historic England

  Expertise:

  Fair data, Sensitive data, Community building, Open publishing, Phytoliths, Environmental archaeology, Palaeoecology

  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 Senior Community Manager at the Alan Turing Institute on the project across the Health Programme and I am core team member of The Turing Way.

• Parasitology

  

  Melissa Burke

  Pronouns: She/Her
  @burkemlou
  
  Australian Biocommons

  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.

• Particle Physics

  

  Sam Van Stroud

  
  Ucl

  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.

• Patterns of biodiversity distribution in time and space

  

  Tainá Rocha

  @Tai_Rocha_
  
  Botanical Garden Of Rio De Janeiro

  Expertise:

  Patterns of biodiversity distribution in time and space, Impacts of climate change on biodiversity, Spatial analysis

  More about Tainá

  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 🙃 .

• Pedagogical approaches to instructor training and curricula development

  

  Aleksandra Nenadic

  Pronouns: she/her/hers
  @aleks_nenadic
  
  University Of Manchester

  Expertise:

  Open and reproducible research best practices, Training and teaching tech to researchers, Pedagogical approaches to instructor training and curricula development

  More about Aleksandra

  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.

• Peer review

  

  Danny Garside

  Pronouns: he/him
  @da5nsy
  
  Nih

  Expertise:

  Registered reports, Peer review, Open publishing, Preprints

  More about Danny

  I’m a color vision researcher and open science advocate.

• Personal data

  

  Bastian Greshake Tzovaras

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

  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.

• Persuading sceptical colleagues

  

  Edward Wallace

  Pronouns: he, him
  @ewjwallace
  
  University Of Edinburgh

  Expertise:

  Gene expression, Rna, Yeast & fungi, Bioinformatics, Open science, Data literacy, Open science in project and teaching context, Practical github, R packages, Balancing open science with the rest of your career;

  More about Edward

  My research group studies how organisms respond to their environment, focusing on molecular mechanisms used by fungi. We collect and analyze genome-scale datasets to understand how fungi dynamically reorganize their RNA and protein to adapt to environmental change. We also produce open-science software tools, including tidyqpcr for quantitative PCR analysis in the tidyverse, and riboviz for ribosome profiling analysis. Both of these packages are going through software review and I’m learning a lot from the process. Alongside my research, I’m an open science advocate and teach data literacy to scientists, working with The Carpentries and Edinburgh Carpentries.

• Philosophy of scientific representation

  

  Jonny Heath

  Pronouns: He/him
  

  Expertise:

  Poetry, Philosophy of scientific representation

  More about Jonny

  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.

• Poetry

  

  Jonny Heath

  Pronouns: He/him
  

  Expertise:

  Poetry, Philosophy of scientific representation

  More about Jonny

  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.

• Preprints

  

  Danny Garside

  Pronouns: he/him
  @da5nsy
  
  Nih

  Expertise:

  Registered reports, Peer review, Open publishing, Preprints

  More about Danny

  I’m a color vision researcher and open science advocate.

  

  Demitra Ellina

  Pronouns: She/her
  @j_ellina
  
  F1000Research

  Expertise:

  Open science, Open research, Open access, Open peer review, Preprints

  More about Demitra

  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.

  

  Iratxe Puebla

  Pronouns: she/her
  @IratxePuebla
  
  Asapbio

  Expertise:

  Preprints, Publishing, Open access, Data publication

  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).

• Principles of FAIRification of (training) material

  

  Alexandra Holinski

  Pronouns: She/her
  
  EMBL-EBI

  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.

• Product strategy

  

  Meag Doherty

  Pronouns: she/her
  @emdohh
  

  Expertise:

  Product strategy, Go to market, User research

  More about Meag

  A designer and open source advocate with experience building on and offline communities in open government and health and life sciences

• Project management

  

  Beatriz Serrano-Solano

  Pronouns: she/her
  @BSerranoSolano
  
  University Of Freiburg

  Expertise:

  Image analysis; data science; community; project management

  More about Beatriz

  Scientific Project Manager working in the project AI4Life (https://ai4life.eurobioimaging.eu/) with strong interest in outreach and community building.

• Project organization

  

  Joel Ostblom

  Pronouns: he/him
  @joelostblom
  
  University Of British Columbia

  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.

• Protein Biochemistry

  

  Alexandra Holinski

  Pronouns: She/her
  
  EMBL-EBI

  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.

• Proteins

  

  Nicolás Palopoli

  Pronouns: Él/He/Him
  @npalopoli
  
  Universidad Nacional De Quilmes & Conicet

  Expertise:

  Bioinformática, Ciencia abierta, Educación, Bioinformatics, Open science, Education

  More about Nicolás

  Nicolás se unió a MetaDocencia desde sus inicios en marzo de 2020 y actualmente comparte la coordinación general y es chair del comité asesor. Además es Investigador Adjunto del CONICET y miembro del Grupo de Bioinformática Estructural de la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes en Argentina. Vive con su esposa y su hijo en Buenos Aires.

• Public speaking

  

  Serah Rono

  Pronouns: she, her, hers
  @serahrono
  
  The Carpentries

  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.

• Publishing web conten

  

  Toby Hodges

  Pronouns: he/him
  @tbyhdgs
  
  The Carpentries

  Expertise:

  Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with git & github/gitlab, Publishing web content, Wordpress, Jekyll, Github/gitlab pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops

  More about Toby

  Toby is Director of Curriculum at The Carpentries, a community of practice building global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. Before that, he was a CSCCE CEFP2019 Fellow and community manager for EMBL Bio-IT, a community of bioinformaticians/computational biologists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.

• Publishing web content

  

  Bérénice Batut

  Pronouns: she/her
  @bebatut
  
  University of Freiburg

  Role in OLS: Director of Learning and Technology
  

  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. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.

• Publishing, peer review

  

  Iratxe Puebla

  Pronouns: she/her
  @IratxePuebla
  
  Asapbio

  Expertise:

  Preprints, Publishing, Open access, Data publication

  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).

• Python

  

  Bastian Greshake Tzovaras

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

  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.

  

  Joel Ostblom

  Pronouns: he/him
  @joelostblom
  
  University Of British Columbia

  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.

  

  Malvika Sharan

  Pronouns: she/her
  @malvikasharan
  
  The Alan Turing Institute

  Role in OLS: Director of Partnerships and Strategy
  

  Expertise:

  Community building, Mentoring, Data Science best practices, Reproducibility, Inclusive and collaborative practices, Python, Version Control, Funding Proposals, Bioinformatics, Algorithm design

  More about Malvika

  Malvika Sharan is a Senior Researcher at The Alan Turing Institute, where she leads a team of community managers and co-leads The Turing Way, a community-led handbook on data science. She is a co-founder of Open Life Science, and an active contributor of several open source/science projects. Connect with her on topics such as community building, open science, strategic collaboration and representation of marginalised members in leadership.

  

  Sam Van Stroud

  
  Ucl

  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.

• R

  

  Anna Krystalli

  Pronouns: she/her
  @annakrystalli
  
  University Of Sheffield

  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.

  

  Beatriz Serrano-Solano

  Pronouns: she/her
  @BSerranoSolano
  
  University Of Freiburg

  Expertise:

  Image analysis; data science; community; project management

  More about Beatriz

  Scientific Project Manager working in the project AI4Life (https://ai4life.eurobioimaging.eu/) with strong interest in outreach and community building.

  

  Stefanie Butland

  Pronouns: she/her
  @stefaniebutland
  
  Ropensci

  Expertise:

  Building inclusive sustainable communities, Communicating in the open, Virtual events, Github, r, Open software peer review

  More about Stefanie

  I’m a tech community manager and reformed research scientist who can never resist connecting people, sharing knowledge, and helping people recognize the value they bring to a project. I am actively involved with the Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement as one of the inaugural Community Engagement Fellows, a mentor, and member. My research life involved bacteria, plants, insects, and mammals, first at the bench and then on a laptop. I was rOpenSci’s Community Manager from 2016 to 2022.

• R Programming

  

  Harpreet Singh

  
  Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya Jalandhar

  Expertise:

  Bioinformatics, Molecular Modeling, Machine learning, R Programming

  More about Harpreet

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

• RNA

  

  Marta Lloret Llinares

  Pronouns: She/her
  
  Embl-Ebi

  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.

• RNA biology

  

  Edward Wallace

  Pronouns: he, him
  @ewjwallace
  
  University Of Edinburgh

  Expertise:

  Gene expression, Rna, Yeast & fungi, Bioinformatics, Open science, Data literacy, Open science in project and teaching context, Practical github, R packages, Balancing open science with the rest of your career;

  More about Edward

  My research group studies how organisms respond to their environment, focusing on molecular mechanisms used by fungi. We collect and analyze genome-scale datasets to understand how fungi dynamically reorganize their RNA and protein to adapt to environmental change. We also produce open-science software tools, including tidyqpcr for quantitative PCR analysis in the tidyverse, and riboviz for ribosome profiling analysis. Both of these packages are going through software review and I’m learning a lot from the process. Alongside my research, I’m an open science advocate and teach data literacy to scientists, working with The Carpentries and Edinburgh Carpentries.

• Registered reports

  

  Danny Garside

  Pronouns: he/him
  @da5nsy
  
  Nih

  Expertise:

  Registered reports, Peer review, Open publishing, Preprints

  More about Danny

  I’m a color vision researcher and open science advocate.

• Reproducibility

  

  Emma Karoune

  Pronouns: she/her
  @ekaroune
  
  The Alan Turing Institute And Historic England

  Expertise:

  Fair data, Sensitive data, Community building, Open publishing, Phytoliths, Environmental archaeology, Palaeoecology

  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 Senior Community Manager at the Alan Turing Institute on the project across the Health Programme and I am core team member of The Turing Way.

  

  Hao Ye

  Pronouns: he/him
  @Hao_and_Y
  
  University of Pennsylvania / Community for Rigor

  Expertise:

  Ecology, Health sciences, R, Git and github, Version control, Time series analysis, Research reproducibility, Community management, Ally skills training

  More about Hao

  Hao is the Reproducibility Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. He is passionate about empowering others, whether through training in open science and reproducible research practices or promoting equity and inclusion by dismantling gatekeeping in academia.

  

  Rachael Ainsworth

  Pronouns: she/her
  @rachaelevelyn
  
  Software Sustainability Institute

  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.

  

  Sarah Gibson

  Pronouns: she/her
  @drsarahlgibson
  
  The Alan Turing Institute

  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.

  

  Renato Alves

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

  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.

  

  Joel Ostblom

  Pronouns: he/him
  @joelostblom
  
  University Of British Columbia

  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.

  

  Anna Krystalli

  Pronouns: she/her
  @annakrystalli
  
  University Of Sheffield

  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.

  

  Giuseppe Profiti

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

  Expertise:

  Teaching, Devops, Software development, Bioinformatics, Wiki*, Carpentries, Communities, Databases, Reproducible science

  More about Giuseppe

  Former university professor and researcher. IT specialist for R&D in bioinformatics. Wikipedian and open culture enthusiast.

• Research Data Management

  

  Jo Havemann

  @openscicomm
  
  Access 2 Perspectives

  Expertise:

  Open Science, Open Access, Scientific Writing, Research Data Management, EvoDevo, Research in Africa

  More about Jo

  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.

  

  Emma Anne Harris

  @Emma_A_Harris
  
  Humboldt University

  Expertise:

  Training, Online training, E-learning, Open science, Research data management, FAIR Data, Research ethics, Research integrity, Responsible research, Innovation RRI

  More about Emma Anne

  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 Plomp

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

  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.

  

  Lena Karvovskaya

  Pronouns: She/her
  @Langdata
  
  Vu Amsterdam

  Expertise:

  Community management, Rdm, Open science

  More about Lena

  I am Community Manager RDM and Open Science at VU Amsterdam. My background is in theoretical linguistics. My goal is to help colleagues connect and learn from each other and with each other

  

  Lena Karvovskaya

  Pronouns: She/her
  @Langdata
  
  Vu Amsterdam

  Expertise:

  Community management, Rdm, Open science

  More about Lena

  I am Community Manager RDM and Open Science at VU Amsterdam. My background is in theoretical linguistics. My goal is to help colleagues connect and learn from each other and with each other

• Research ethics

  

  Emma Anne Harris

  @Emma_A_Harris
  
  Humboldt University

  Expertise:

  Training, Online training, E-learning, Open science, Research data management, FAIR Data, Research ethics, Research integrity, Responsible research, Innovation RRI

  More about Emma Anne

  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.

• Research in Africa

  

  Jo Havemann

  @openscicomm
  
  Access 2 Perspectives

  Expertise:

  Open Science, Open Access, Scientific Writing, Research Data Management, EvoDevo, Research in Africa

  More about Jo

  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.

• Research integrity

  

  Emma Anne Harris

  @Emma_A_Harris
  
  Humboldt University

  Expertise:

  Training, Online training, E-learning, Open science, Research data management, FAIR Data, Research ethics, Research integrity, Responsible research, Innovation RRI

  More about Emma Anne

  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.

  

  Iratxe Puebla

  Pronouns: she/her
  @IratxePuebla
  
  Asapbio

  Expertise:

  Preprints, Publishing, Open access, Data publication

  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).

• Research methods

  

  Emily Lescak

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

  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.

• Research software

  

  Anna Krystalli

  Pronouns: she/her
  @annakrystalli
  
  University Of Sheffield

  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.

  

  Christine Rogers

  Pronouns: she/her
  @xtinerogers
  
  Mcgill University

  Expertise:

  Neuroinformatics, Open science, Open source, Research software

  More about Christine

  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.

• Responsible research

  

  Emma Anne Harris

  @Emma_A_Harris
  
  Humboldt University

  Expertise:

  Training, Online training, E-learning, Open science, Research data management, FAIR Data, Research ethics, Research integrity, Responsible research, Innovation RRI

  More about Emma Anne

  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.

• Ressource development

  

  Serah Rono

  Pronouns: she, her, hers
  @serahrono
  
  The Carpentries

  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.

• Road ecology

  

  Kaitlin Stack Whitney

  Pronouns: she/her
  @kstackwhitney
  
  Rochester Institute Of Technology

  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.

• Road mapping and strategy planning

  

  Arielle Bennett

  Pronouns: she/her
  @biotechchat
  
  The Alan Turing Institute

  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.

• Science and tech democratization

  

  Julieta Arancio

  Pronouns: She/her
  @cassandreces
  
  University Of Bath & Drexel University

  Expertise:

  Open science hardware, Sti policy, Open educational resources

  More about Julieta

  Julieta Arancio is a postdoctoral researcher at Drexel University (US) & the University of Bath (UK), and an associate researcher at CENIT-UNSAM in Argentina. Her research focuses on social studies of open hardware, in particular for democratization of the production of science and technology. She is a co-organizer at reGOSH, the Latin America open science hardware network, and 1/3 of the mentorship program Open Hardware Makers.

• Science communication

  

  Iratxe Puebla

  Pronouns: she/her
  @IratxePuebla
  
  Asapbio

  Expertise:

  Preprints, Publishing, Open access, Data publication

  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).

  

  Piraveen Gopalasingam

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

  Expertise:

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

  More about Piraveen

  I am a scientific training officer at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) where I mainly coordinate and support training in Latin America via the CABANA project (https://cabana.online/). My background lies in structural biology and biomedical sciences, and I am passionate about science communication, equity and inclusion.

• Science communication using social media

  

  Michelle Mendonca

  Pronouns: she/her
  @mishrose2
  
  EMBL-EBI

  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.

• Scientific Education and Training

  

  Alexandra Holinski

  Pronouns: She/her
  
  EMBL-EBI

  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.

• Scientific Writing

  

  Jo Havemann

  @openscicomm
  
  Access 2 Perspectives

  Expertise:

  Open Science, Open Access, Scientific Writing, Research Data Management, EvoDevo, Research in Africa

  More about Jo

  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.

• Scientific community engagement

  

  Toby Hodges

  Pronouns: he/him
  @tbyhdgs
  
  The Carpentries

  Expertise:

  Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with git & github/gitlab, Publishing web content, Wordpress, Jekyll, Github/gitlab pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops

  More about Toby

  Toby is Director of Curriculum at The Carpentries, a community of practice building global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. Before that, he was a CSCCE CEFP2019 Fellow and community manager for EMBL Bio-IT, a community of bioinformaticians/computational biologists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.

• Sequencing workflows

  

  Edward Wallace

  Pronouns: he, him
  @ewjwallace
  
  University Of Edinburgh

  Expertise:

  Gene expression, Rna, Yeast & fungi, Bioinformatics, Open science, Data literacy, Open science in project and teaching context, Practical github, R packages, Balancing open science with the rest of your career;

  More about Edward

  My research group studies how organisms respond to their environment, focusing on molecular mechanisms used by fungi. We collect and analyze genome-scale datasets to understand how fungi dynamically reorganize their RNA and protein to adapt to environmental change. We also produce open-science software tools, including tidyqpcr for quantitative PCR analysis in the tidyverse, and riboviz for ribosome profiling analysis. Both of these packages are going through software review and I’m learning a lot from the process. Alongside my research, I’m an open science advocate and teach data literacy to scientists, working with The Carpentries and Edinburgh Carpentries.

• Single cell transcriptomes

  

  Wendi Bacon

  Pronouns: She/her
  
  Embl-Ebi

  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.

• Social networks

  

  Kate Simpson

  Pronouns: She/her
  @Dr_KateSimpson
  
  Imperial College London/ The Alan Turing Institute

  Expertise:

  Open community development, Basic open science principles, Basic github skills, Energy, carbon and enironmental data for buildings

  More about Kate

  I am an early career researcher focused on building energy use with a passion for learning about open community and open science practices that I can apply to my work. I am motivated to share academic knowledge with those who can benefit from it. I would love to see an open data community of practice including households, building practitioners and researchers.

• Social studies of data

  

  Louise Bezuidenhout

  Pronouns: she/her
  @loubezuidenhout
  
  University Of Oxford And University Of Cape Town

  Expertise:

  Open Science, Open Data, FAIR, LMIC research/ers, Social studies of data

  More about Louise

  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.

  

  Beth Duckles

  Pronouns: she, her
  @bduckles
  
  Insightful, Llc

  Expertise:

  Social science, Qualitative research, Sustainability, Standards, Mixed methods, Post academics

  More about Beth

  I’m a research consultant and social scientist and I support researchers in developing mixed methods and qualitative research skills. I also run a peer support group called Open Post Academics (OPA) where we encourage those with a PhD to share their skills and knowledge outside of the academy.

• Software development

  

  Sam Van Stroud

  
  Ucl

  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.

  

  Yo Yehudi

  Pronouns: they/them
  @yoyehudi
  

  Role in OLS: Executive Director, Business and Development Lead
  

  Expertise:

  Software development, Community building, Mentoring

  More about Yo

  Yo is the executive director and a co-founder of OLS. As an EngD student at the University of Manchester, Yo is studying pathogen-related data sharing and sustainability of open source software.Yo is a founder of Code is Science, and previously, they were editor for the PLOS Open Source Toolkit, editor emeritus at the Journal of Open Source Software, board member of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a software developer at the University of Cambridge, working on an open source biological data warehouse called InterMine.

• Software sustainability

  

  Carlos Martinez-Ortiz

  Pronouns: he/him
  @neocarlitos
  
  Netherlands eScience Center

  Expertise:

  Software sustainability, FAIR software, linked data

  More about Carlos

  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.

  

  Yo Yehudi

  Pronouns: they/them
  @yoyehudi
  

  Role in OLS: Executive Director, Business and Development Lead
  

  Expertise:

  Software development, Community building, Mentoring

  More about Yo

  Yo is the executive director and a co-founder of OLS. As an EngD student at the University of Manchester, Yo is studying pathogen-related data sharing and sustainability of open source software.Yo is a founder of Code is Science, and previously, they were editor for the PLOS Open Source Toolkit, editor emeritus at the Journal of Open Source Software, board member of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a software developer at the University of Cambridge, working on an open source biological data warehouse called InterMine.

  

  Anna Krystalli

  Pronouns: she/her
  @annakrystalli
  
  University Of Sheffield

  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.

• Spatial analysis

  

  Tainá Rocha

  @Tai_Rocha_
  
  Botanical Garden Of Rio De Janeiro

  Expertise:

  Patterns of biodiversity distribution in time and space, Impacts of climate change on biodiversity, Spatial analysis

  More about Tainá

  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 🙃 .

• Static and interactive data visualization

  

  Joel Ostblom

  Pronouns: he/him
  @joelostblom
  
  University Of British Columbia

  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.

• Stem cell biology

  

  Joel Ostblom

  Pronouns: he/him
  @joelostblom
  
  University Of British Columbia

  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.

• Storytelling

  

  Adam Gristwood

  Pronouns: he/him
  @gristwood
  
  Freelance Science Writer And Communications Trainer

  Expertise:

  Life science communications

  More about Adam

  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.

  

  Beth Duckles

  Pronouns: she, her
  @bduckles
  
  Insightful, Llc

  Expertise:

  Social science, Qualitative research, Sustainability, Standards, Mixed methods, Post academics

  More about Beth

  I’m a research consultant and social scientist and I support researchers in developing mixed methods and qualitative research skills. I also run a peer support group called Open Post Academics (OPA) where we encourage those with a PhD to share their skills and knowledge outside of the academy.

  

  Jonny Heath

  Pronouns: He/him
  

  Expertise:

  Poetry, Philosophy of scientific representation

  More about Jonny

  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.

• Structural bioinformatics

  

  Nicolás Palopoli

  Pronouns: Él/He/Him
  @npalopoli
  
  Universidad Nacional De Quilmes & Conicet

  Expertise:

  Bioinformática, Ciencia abierta, Educación, Bioinformatics, Open science, Education

  More about Nicolás

  Nicolás se unió a MetaDocencia desde sus inicios en marzo de 2020 y actualmente comparte la coordinación general y es chair del comité asesor. Además es Investigador Adjunto del CONICET y miembro del Grupo de Bioinformática Estructural de la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes en Argentina. Vive con su esposa y su hijo en Buenos Aires.

• Synthetic biology

  

  Stephen Klusza

  Pronouns: he/him/his
  @codebiologist
  
  Atlanta Metropolitan State College, Adjunct Faculty and Laboratory Professional for Biology

  Expertise:

  Life sciences, Genetics, Synthetic biology, Accessibility

  More about Stephen

  Lifelong developmental geneticist with interest in synthetic biology and creating open domain tools for research

• Systems Biology

  

  Prash Suravajhala

  Pronouns: He/Him
  @prashbio
  
  Bioclues.Org

  Expertise:

  Systems genomics, bioinformatics

  More about Prash

  A Systems Biologist with wide interests in the areas on functional genomics, protein informatics and interactions. *Principal Investigator for four or more projects coalescing keywords #HypotheticalProteins #VitaminK #LncRNAs #ProstateCancer *Founder of Bioclues.org, India’s largest bioinformatics society working for mentor-mentee relationships since 2005. *Advocate #OpenAcess and #OpenSource

• Teaching

  

  Emily Lescak

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

  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.

• Teaching and organising workshops

  

  Toby Hodges

  Pronouns: he/him
  @tbyhdgs
  
  The Carpentries

  Expertise:

  Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with git & github/gitlab, Publishing web content, Wordpress, Jekyll, Github/gitlab pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops

  More about Toby

  Toby is Director of Curriculum at The Carpentries, a community of practice building global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. Before that, he was a CSCCE CEFP2019 Fellow and community manager for EMBL Bio-IT, a community of bioinformaticians/computational biologists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.

• Theoretical linguistics

  

  Lena Karvovskaya

  Pronouns: She/her
  @Langdata
  
  Vu Amsterdam

  Expertise:

  Community management, Rdm, Open science

  More about Lena

  I am Community Manager RDM and Open Science at VU Amsterdam. My background is in theoretical linguistics. My goal is to help colleagues connect and learn from each other and with each other

  

  Lena Karvovskaya

  Pronouns: She/her
  @Langdata
  
  Vu Amsterdam

  Expertise:

  Community management, Rdm, Open science

  More about Lena

  I am Community Manager RDM and Open Science at VU Amsterdam. My background is in theoretical linguistics. My goal is to help colleagues connect and learn from each other and with each other

• Training

  

  Melissa Burke

  Pronouns: She/Her
  @burkemlou
  
  Australian Biocommons

  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.

  

  Emma Anne Harris

  @Emma_A_Harris
  
  Humboldt University

  Expertise:

  Training, Online training, E-learning, Open science, Research data management, FAIR Data, Research ethics, Research integrity, Responsible research, Innovation RRI

  More about Emma Anne

  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.

  

  Edward Wallace

  Pronouns: he, him
  @ewjwallace
  
  University Of Edinburgh

  Expertise:

  Gene expression, Rna, Yeast & fungi, Bioinformatics, Open science, Data literacy, Open science in project and teaching context, Practical github, R packages, Balancing open science with the rest of your career;

  More about Edward

  My research group studies how organisms respond to their environment, focusing on molecular mechanisms used by fungi. We collect and analyze genome-scale datasets to understand how fungi dynamically reorganize their RNA and protein to adapt to environmental change. We also produce open-science software tools, including tidyqpcr for quantitative PCR analysis in the tidyverse, and riboviz for ribosome profiling analysis. Both of these packages are going through software review and I’m learning a lot from the process. Alongside my research, I’m an open science advocate and teach data literacy to scientists, working with The Carpentries and Edinburgh Carpentries.

  

  Fotis Psomopoulos

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

  Expertise:

  Bioinformatics, Machine learning, Training

  More about Fotis

  Doing Bioinformatics and ML @ CERTH, Thessaloníki, GR, fan of training, Open Science and e-infras.

  

  Piraveen Gopalasingam

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

  Expertise:

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

  More about Piraveen

  I am a scientific training officer at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) where I mainly coordinate and support training in Latin America via the CABANA project (https://cabana.online/). My background lies in structural biology and biomedical sciences, and I am passionate about science communication, equity and inclusion.

• Training and teaching tech to researchers

  

  Aleksandra Nenadic

  Pronouns: she/her/hers
  @aleks_nenadic
  
  University Of Manchester

  Expertise:

  Open and reproducible research best practices, Training and teaching tech to researchers, Pedagogical approaches to instructor training and curricula development

  More about Aleksandra

  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.

• Transcriptomics

  

  Sonika Tyagi

  Pronouns: she/her
  @tsonika
  
  Monash University Melbourne

  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.

• Unix

  

  Malvika Sharan

  Pronouns: she/her
  @malvikasharan
  
  The Alan Turing Institute

  Role in OLS: Director of Partnerships and Strategy
  

  Expertise:

  Community building, Mentoring, Data Science best practices, Reproducibility, Inclusive and collaborative practices, Python, Version Control, Funding Proposals, Bioinformatics, Algorithm design

  More about Malvika

  Malvika Sharan is a Senior Researcher at The Alan Turing Institute, where she leads a team of community managers and co-leads The Turing Way, a community-led handbook on data science. She is a co-founder of Open Life Science, and an active contributor of several open source/science projects. Connect with her on topics such as community building, open science, strategic collaboration and representation of marginalised members in leadership.

• User research

  

  Meag Doherty

  Pronouns: she/her
  @emdohh
  

  Expertise:

  Product strategy, Go to market, User research

  More about Meag

  A designer and open source advocate with experience building on and offline communities in open government and health and life sciences

• User-centered design, buildings, energy, environment quality

  

  Kate Simpson

  Pronouns: She/her
  @Dr_KateSimpson
  
  Imperial College London/ The Alan Turing Institute

  Expertise:

  Open community development, Basic open science principles, Basic github skills, Energy, carbon and enironmental data for buildings

  More about Kate

  I am an early career researcher focused on building energy use with a passion for learning about open community and open science practices that I can apply to my work. I am motivated to share academic knowledge with those who can benefit from it. I would love to see an open data community of practice including households, building practitioners and researchers.

• Version control

  

  Anna Krystalli

  Pronouns: she/her
  @annakrystalli
  
  University Of Sheffield

  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.

  

  Martina Vilas

  Pronouns: She/her
  @martinagvilas
  
  Max-Planck-Institute Ae

  Expertise:

  Open source, Open source documentation, Open infrastructure, Open science communities, Version control, Computational Modeling, Machine learning, Neuroimaging, Neuroscience

  More about Martina

  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.

  

  Hao Ye

  Pronouns: he/him
  @Hao_and_Y
  
  University of Pennsylvania / Community for Rigor

  Expertise:

  Ecology, Health sciences, R, Git and github, Version control, Time series analysis, Research reproducibility, Community management, Ally skills training

  More about Hao

  Hao is the Reproducibility Librarian at the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries. He is passionate about empowering others, whether through training in open science and reproducible research practices or promoting equity and inclusion by dismantling gatekeeping in academia.

• Virtual events

  

  Joyce Kao

  Pronouns: She/Her
  @joyceykao
  
  University Hospital Rwth Aachen

  Expertise:

  Open innovation, Digitalization

  More about Joyce

  I am an enthusiast for using tech to make processes more efficient and reproducible. In a previous position, I co-founded the Open Innovation in Life Sciences association that promotes open science among early career researchers in Switzerland. Things that make me happy at the moment include playing piano and introducing chapter books from my childhood to my school-aged kid.

  

  Rachael Ainsworth

  Pronouns: she/her
  @rachaelevelyn
  
  Software Sustainability Institute

  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.

  

  Stefanie Butland

  Pronouns: she/her
  @stefaniebutland
  
  Ropensci

  Expertise:

  Building inclusive sustainable communities, Communicating in the open, Virtual events, Github, r, Open software peer review

  More about Stefanie

  I’m a tech community manager and reformed research scientist who can never resist connecting people, sharing knowledge, and helping people recognize the value they bring to a project. I am actively involved with the Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement as one of the inaugural Community Engagement Fellows, a mentor, and member. My research life involved bacteria, plants, insects, and mammals, first at the bench and then on a laptop. I was rOpenSci’s Community Manager from 2016 to 2022.

• Web

  

  Jez Cope

  Pronouns: he/him
  @jezcope
  
  The British Library

  Expertise:

  Research data management, Digital scholarship, Libraries, Open research, Open data, Open scholarship, Open science, Research software engineering practice, Neurodiversity, Glam

  More about Jez

  Jez is Data Services Lead in The British Library’s Research Infrastructure Services team. He has over 10 years of experience developing and delivering research data management services and strategies at research-intensive higher education institutions in the UK, as part of a long-term goal to help communicate and collaborate more effectively using technology. He is an experienced teacher and is involved with The Carpentries as a Certified Instructor and early contributor to Library Carpentry. He is particularly interested in elevating the status of research software alongside research data in the scholarly record, and helping researchers develop the skills to make the most of this. He is a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, 2020 intake.

• Web applications

  

  Joyce Kao

  Pronouns: She/Her
  @joyceykao
  
  University Hospital Rwth Aachen

  Expertise:

  Open innovation, Digitalization

  More about Joyce

  I am an enthusiast for using tech to make processes more efficient and reproducible. In a previous position, I co-founded the Open Innovation in Life Sciences association that promotes open science among early career researchers in Switzerland. Things that make me happy at the moment include playing piano and introducing chapter books from my childhood to my school-aged kid.

• Web development

  

  Bastian Greshake Tzovaras

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

  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.

  

  Serah Rono

  Pronouns: she, her, hers
  @serahrono
  
  The Carpentries

  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.

• Webinar and workshop development

  

  Melissa Burke

  Pronouns: She/Her
  @burkemlou
  
  Australian Biocommons

  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.

• Women in STEM

  

  Beatriz Serrano-Solano

  Pronouns: she/her
  @BSerranoSolano
  
  University Of Freiburg

  Expertise:

  Image analysis; data science; community; project management

  More about Beatriz

  Scientific Project Manager working in the project AI4Life (https://ai4life.eurobioimaging.eu/) with strong interest in outreach and community building.

• Wordpress

  

  Bérénice Batut

  Pronouns: she/her
  @bebatut
  
  University of Freiburg

  Role in OLS: Director of Learning and Technology
  

  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. In her current role, she also serves as a deputy training coordinator for ELIXIR Germany (de.NBI). Bérénice is passionate about training and education. She founded and co-leads the Galaxy Training Material project, and regularly giving talks and workshops on topics like data analysis, and tool development. She is also a founder of Street Science Community, a citizen science and outreach program.

  

  Toby Hodges

  Pronouns: he/him
  @tbyhdgs
  
  The Carpentries

  Expertise:

  Designing and developing training material, Collaborating with git & github/gitlab, Publishing web content, Wordpress, Jekyll, Github/gitlab pages, Scientific community engagement, Teaching and organising workshops

  More about Toby

  Toby is Director of Curriculum at The Carpentries, a community of practice building global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. Before that, he was a CSCCE CEFP2019 Fellow and community manager for EMBL Bio-IT, a community of bioinformaticians/computational biologists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.

• Working open

  

  Edward Wallace

  Pronouns: he, him
  @ewjwallace
  
  University Of Edinburgh

  Expertise:

  Gene expression, Rna, Yeast & fungi, Bioinformatics, Open science, Data literacy, Open science in project and teaching context, Practical github, R packages, Balancing open science with the rest of your career;

  More about Edward

  My research group studies how organisms respond to their environment, focusing on molecular mechanisms used by fungi. We collect and analyze genome-scale datasets to understand how fungi dynamically reorganize their RNA and protein to adapt to environmental change. We also produce open-science software tools, including tidyqpcr for quantitative PCR analysis in the tidyverse, and riboviz for ribosome profiling analysis. Both of these packages are going through software review and I’m learning a lot from the process. Alongside my research, I’m an open science advocate and teach data literacy to scientists, working with The Carpentries and Edinburgh Carpentries.

• Zines

  

  Kaitlin Stack Whitney

  Pronouns: she/her
  @kstackwhitney
  
  Rochester Institute Of Technology

  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.

• eLearning

  

  Melissa Burke

  Pronouns: She/Her
  @burkemlou
  
  Australian Biocommons

  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.