CODATA - Key Persons
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Space Commission of the Government of India
- Principal Investigator of the Recently Launched Pune Knowledge Cluster
- Professor
Ajit Kembhavi is an astronomer. He is Professor Emeritus and former Raja Ramanna Fellow at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune. He was Director there until August 2015. He is one of the founder members of IUCAA and played a major role in setting it up and developing it into a world-class institute. He did his Ph. D. from TIFR, Mumbai and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Astronomy, of the University of Cambridge.
Kembhavi works on galaxies, quasars and other extragalactic objects, various areas of high energy astrophysics, X-ray and radio pulsars, and the application of AI to astronomy and biology. He has published a large number of research papers and several books in English and Marathi.
Kembhavi is involved in many national and international collaborations and is one of the key persons responsible for India joining the Thirty Metre Telescope (TMT) project as a partner and taking up the LIGO India project. He is now on the Apex Committees of these projects and a member of the LIGO USA Oversight Committee.
In the field of data driven science, Kembhavi has led the Virtual Observatory-India project for fifteen years, which has made important contributions to data management, analysis, visualisation and the development of tools for statistical analysis. The project was carried out in close collaboration with Anand Deshpande Persistent Systems. He headed a Big Data project supported by the National Knowledge Network (NKN).
Kembhavi is the Principal Investigator of the recently launched Pune Knowledge Cluster. This is funded by the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India and brings together the academia, R&D institutes and the industry in Pune to carry out capacity building programmes and projects for the betterment of the city in the verticals of environment, health, electric mobility and Big Data and AI.
Kembhavi has been a member of the Space Commission of the Government of India and is presently a member of the ISRO's Apex Science Board. He was Vice-President of the International Astronomical Union and former President, Astronomical Society of India, Chair of the International Virtual Observatory Alliance, Chair of the Scientific Council of the Astronomical Data Centre at Strasbourg and Chair of the Council of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics. He is currently Chair of the Indian National CODATA Committee. He is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, India.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Vice President
- Chief of the Innovation Technologies Sector of the Geophysical Center
- Chief of the Innovation Technologies Sector of the Geophysical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Alena Rybkina is chief of the Innovation Technologies Sector of the Geophysical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GC RAS). She is a young but internationally recognized specialist in implementation of modern information and visualization technologies in the scientific research and industrial domain. Important goals of her activity are data technological studies and development of spherical projection systems aimed at efficient analysis, demonstration and popularization in data research and management. Alena is actively involved in the operations of the CODATA Task Group "Earth and Space Science Data Interoperability". She co-authored the "Atlas of the Earth's Magnetic Field", which was one of the outstanding TG achievements in 2013. She is experienced in the organization of international and national events devoted to promotion of data science in Russia and other countries. In particular she was the principal organizer of the conferences "Electronic Geophysical Year: State of the Art and Results" in 2009, Pereslavl-Zalessky, "Artificial Intelligence in the Earth's Magnetic Field Study. INTERMAGNET Russian Segment" in 2011, Uglich and "Geophysical Observatories, Multifunctional GIS and Data Mining" in 2013, Kaluga. She takes part in numerous international projects, including those developed by the International Institution for Applied System Analysis (IIASA, Laxemburg, Austria). Alena is geologist currently working on the paleoenvironmental reconstructions and the Earth's magnetic field studies. She took part in geological expeditions in Russia, Ukraine, France and Italy for collecting paleomagnetic data and providing correlations between changes in magnetic data and global astronomical cycles. As a member of the CODATA Executive Committee she focuses on the organization and structuring the CODATA research projects and bring her experience in the geoscience data management. Special attention will be paid to the promotion of CODATA activities among data and research community to involve new members as well as young scientists.
Barend Mons is a molecular biologist by training (PhD Leiden University 1986). He spent over 15 years in malaria research in close collaboration with endemic countries. After that he gained experience in computer-assisted knowledge discovery, which is still his research focus. He spent time with the European Commission as a Seconded National Expert with the INCO-DC pogramme (1993-1996) and with the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO 1966-1999). Barend also co-founded several spin off companies. In 2000 he founded the Biosemantics group in Rotterdam and later also in Leiden. Currently, Barend is Professor in Biosemantics at the Human Genetics department of Leiden University Medical Center. He was also the first Head of Node for ELIXIR-NL at the Dutch Techcentre for Life Sciences (until 2015), is Integrator Life Sciences at the Netherlands eScience Center, and board member of the Leiden Centre of Data Science. In 2014, Barend initiated the FAIR data initiative and in 2015, he was appointed Chair of the European Commission's High Level Expert Group for the "European Open Science Cloud", from which he retired by the end of 2016. Barend is and ambassador of GO FAIR and co-founder of the GO FAIR initiative, an initiative to kick start developments towards the Internet of FAIR data and services, which will also contribute to the implementation of components of the European Open Science Cloud.
Recently, Barend has been elected President of the Executive Committee of CODATA where he will work closely with the Executive director and the rest of the team to develop CODATA in the scope of the International Council of Science.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Secretary General
- Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Information International Associates, Inc
Bonnie C. Carroll is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Information International Associates, Inc. (IIa); a woman-owned business established in 1988 and headquartered in Oak Ridge, TN. IIa supports government and industry in managing information as a strategic resource. Ms. Carroll is Executive Director of CENDI, the federal scientific and technical information (STI) managers' group of 12 Federal US STI programs, and is the Secretary General of CODATA and as such serves ex officio on the National Academy of Science, National Research Council's Board of Research Data and Information. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). For 5 years Ms. Carroll was the Executive Secretary of two White House Interagency Working Groups. For over four decades, she has participated in research and development projects for DOE, NSF, the Library of Congress, the Kingdom of Jordan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and special studies for the International Atomic Energy Agency, UNESCO and the World Bank. Ms. Carroll's experience with the DOE includes working with HQ and the field organizations, both as a contractor and as a federal employee. Her connections to DOE date back to 1971 when she started work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. During the 1980s, Ms. Carroll worked at DOE's Office of Scientific and Technical Information as Director of Program Development and International Activities and Deputy and Acting Assistant Manager for Information Services. After leaving ORNL she founded IIa and has been a support contractor now for over 30 years. Ms. Carroll served as President of the American Society for Information Science &Technology and as Chair of the AAAS Section on Information, Computing and Communications. Ms. Carroll is on the editorial board for the journal Information Services and Use. She has an MS from Columbia University and a BA from Cornell University.
Ms. Carroll's honors and awards include: ASIS&T: Watson Davis Award for Continuing and Dedicated Service (1988); Distinguished Service Award, East Tennessee Chapter (1986); NASA Scientific & Techni cal Information Program - Director's Award (1992); USGS Government Technology Leadership Award for the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) (1999); Federal Computer Week Federal 100 (2004); U.S. Department of the Interior National Conservation Award (2005); the Grey Literature Network Service GreyNet Award (2011); and the Enterprising Women of the Year Award (2016). IIa was the recipient of the U.S. Department of Energy's Small Woman-Owned Business of the year for 2014.
Founder, Chairman of the Board and Chief Knowledge Officer Information International Associates, Inc. As founder of Information International Associates and Chairman of the Board, Bonnie Carroll brings a cross-cutting vision of information and data management, policy, and technology to a small business that provides information management and technology services to government and industry. Her leadership roles outside of the corporate structure put her at the forefront of strategic futures for information management. Carroll is Executive Director of CENDI, the federal scientific and technical information managers' group, and has been a consultant to a number of federal science mission agencies. She serves on the National Academy of Science and the National Research Council's Board of Research Data and Information. She has served as President of the American Society for Information Science & Technology and as Chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Section on Information, Computing and Communications. Carroll served as the first Executive Secretary for two White House Science Office Interagency Working Groups dealing with scientific data: the Interagency Working Group for Digital Data (IWGDD) and the Biodiversity and Ecosystems Informatics (BioEco) Working Group. In 2004, she received the Federal 100 Award for contributions to federal Information Technology (IT) developments. Ms. Carroll was a co-recipient of the 2011 international Grey Literature Award. She participated in the publishing of two major US reports dealing with scientific data: Harnessing the Power of Digital Data for Science and Society and Harnessing the Power of Digital Data: Taking the Next Step. Scientific Data Management (SDM) for Government Agencies: Workshop to Improve SDM. Additionally, Ms. Carroll is on the editorial board for the journal Information Services and Use. Carroll has also been a consultant to foreign and international organizations including the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Kingdom of Jordan, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, and the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information.
Job Titles:
- Secretary General
- Secretary General 2021 - 2025
Christine Kirkpatrick's home institution is at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego where she leads the Research Data Services division that includes infrastructure (cloud, networking, storage), data center/colocation facility, and a data initiatives group. She has considerable experience leading research infrastructure projects (at scale) and supportive data services including a leadership role on the Schmidt Futures Foundation and NSF-funded Open Storage Network and as head of the Data Core for the National Institutes of Health-funded Metabolomics Workbench, a national data repository for metabolomics studies. Kirkpatrick has held numerous roles in the Data Together institutions, including as a member of the Technical Advisory Board for the Research Data Alliance (2018-2021); she co-Chairs the FAIR Digital Object Forum, and serves as an ex officio member on the National Academies' US National Committee for CODATA. Kirkpatrick was the founding Executive Director of the US National Data Service. In addition to being PI of the EarthCube Office (ECO), Kirkpatrick founded the US GO FAIR Office, is PI of the West Big Data Innovation Hub, and Co-PI on a new NSF Accelnet award: Designing a Water, Data, and Systems Science Network of Networks to Catalyze Transboundary Groundwater Resiliency Research. She serves on the advisory boards for the European Open Science Cloud-Nordic (EOSC-Nordic) and the Helmholtz Federated IT Services (HIFIS). Kirkpatrick is a member of the Stakeholder Alignment Collaborative, a research group whose focus includes organizational models that support community-driven (data) consortia. Kirkpatrick's personal research is in Computer Science where she focuses on the relationship of FAIR data and machine learning processing.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
Cyrus Pan Walther serves in his second term as the President of the International Association of Physics Students, representing the global community of Physics students and their interests. In his position on the Executive Committee of CODATA, he focuses on Early Career Researchers and sustainability. Creating value for young scientists, fostering international connections, and amplifying the voice of science belong to his core focal points. Combined with his position as the Vice-Chair for Physics and Industry in the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), he advocates for identifying and obtaining valuable resources for young researchers worldwide. Professionally, Cyrus completes his studies at TU Dortmund University in the Astroparticle Physics Group under Prof. Wolfgang Rhode, where he is researching machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence approaches for the use of uncertainty estimations in high-energy gamma astronomy.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Executive Director of the University of South Africa ( UNISA ) Library
- Vice President, 2023 - 2025 Executive Committee Member 2018 - 2023
Daisy Selematsela is the Executive Director of the University of South Africa (UNISA) Library and Information Services. She was the Acting Vice Principal: Research Postgraduate Studies, Innovation and Commercialisation at the University of South Africa until 31 May 2018. She previously served the National System of Innovation as Executive Director: Knowledge Management Corporate at the National Research Foundation of South Africa (NRF). She is Professor of Practice of Information and Knowledge Management of the University of Johannesburg.
She has 26 years' experience in Higher Education sector and within the National System of Innovation (NSI). She serves as mentor for both emerging researchers and students and an external examiner for undergraduate and postgraduate students in Library, Information Science and Knowledge Management.
Daisy has served CODATA since September 2006 at various levels through the activities of the South African National Committee for CODATA and the then ICSU Regional Office for Africa activities including hosting workshops and website content for the Task Group activities. Have been instrumental in championing the research data management processes and Open Access Mandate within the National System of Innovation in South Africa and promoted CODATA Task Group agenda at different forums in Sub-Saharan Africa. Her involvement includes being Co-Chair of the Sub-group of CODATA-WDS of PASTD, an Executive member of International Council for Science Union (ICSU SCID) ad Hoc Committee on Information and Data, Chair of International Council for Science: Committee on Data for Science & Technology (ICSU: CODATA) Task Group on Data Sources for Sustainable Development in SADC. Executive member of (ICSU EDC Panel) International Science Union World Data Centre Panel; Member of CODATA Task Group on Preservation of and Access to Scientific and Technical Data in/for/with Developing Countries, and Co-chairs of CODATA - WDS joint subgroup.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Chief Research Scientist at the Commonwealth Scientific
Dr Andrew Young is a Chief Research Scientist at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. For the last eight years he has been Director of Australia's National Research Collections: https://www.csiro.au/en/Showcase/NRCA. He is currently a member of Australia's National Committee for Data in Science (Australian National CODATA committee) and Vice-Chair of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility: https://www.gbif.org/.
His research expertise is in the field of plant ecological genetics in which he has published 100+ peer-reviewed papers. Andrew is particularly interested in the integration and mobilisation of new types of data from the world's 2+ billion museum specimens (e.g. genomes, images, sounds, cultural information) and evolving frontiers in data analytics including genomics, high-throughput digitisation, machine learning and artificial intelligence as applied biological collections.
Over the last decade he has initiated several major data-intensive national collaborative research programs including the Biomes of Australian Soil Environments project (now part of Ausmicrobiome: https://www.australianmicrobiome.com/), that is using metagenomics to explore Australia's soil
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Head of Department of Computer Science at the University of Botswana
Audrey Masizana is an immediate Head of Department of Computer Science at the University of Botswana. She has over the years served in various University's transformational Committees that proposed innovative solutions around ELearning, Digital Scholarship and Technology Adoption. . She holds a PhD in Computer Science from UMIST (2004) UK, MSc (Computer Science) (1998), Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Computing (1997) from Oxford Brookes University UK and BSc (Hon) Mathematics Modelling and Computing (1994) from Kingston University UK. Her professional certifications include Data Science, Design Thinking and ERP Education.
Audrey is passionate in interdisciplinary post graduate teaching and research around Scientific Application of Data for Intelligent Decision Making, for which she also conducts external examining for other universities. She is a seasoned publisher in conference and journal proceedings across the world for which she also serves in some of the editorial boards. Such include several publications as academic products of the Digital Inclusion project awarded under the Microsoft Digital Inclusion Program 2006. She has made exceptional contributions to the promotion of science and technology by providing leadership in the establishment of fostered local and regional collaborative projects around Hi Performance Computing (HPC) & Data Science Research - covering the development and sharing of the compute and data research infrastructure, eHealth Research which engages Health Informatics, and Intelligent Systems Research which explores applications of Artificial Intelligence to solve relevant problems such as Diamond Sorting and Recovery.
She has over the years served at national bodies such as the National Cyber Security Strategy Development Committee (2016) and its new Implementation Committee (2021). She is a strong advocate of the adoption of Open Data Open Science Policies and Instruments and served as a Deputy Chair of the National Committee on Open Data Open Science established in 2017 which has inspired developments such as establishment of National Research and Education Network (NREN). She is very active in professional societies nationally, being a Fellow of Botswana Academy of Sciences (FBAS) and the current Chair of Computer Society of Botswana where she forged strategic collaborations with societies of similar mandates regionally and internationally such as the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP).
Dr Audrey Masizana is a Senior Lecturer and former Head of Department of Computer Science at the University of Botswana. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from University of Manchester UK (2004). He is also Fellow of Botswana Academy of Sciences (FBAS) since 2021 and Global Health International Scholar of University of Pennsylvania, USA (2023-2026).
As a member of Botswana CODATA National Committee, she is a strong advocate and passionate of the adoption of Open Data Open Science Policies and Instruments locally and across the continent. Currently she is the Chair of the development of the Botswana Open Data Policy established by the Botswana Presidential Task Force (Smart Bots) in March 2023, the outcome of which could provide the leadership and adoption in the African SADC region. In 2021 she was elected to serve for 2 years into the Executive Committee of the CODATA for International Science Council and now serving a second term.
She has over the years gained enormous experience in spear heading academic networking platforms including chairing conferences such as Information Technology for Development (IASTED Africa 2014, 2016), International Conference in Cyber-Security and Information systems conference series referenced in ICICIS 2016 and here. Also, the International Data Week (IDW 2018) spearheaded by the University of Botswana. She has served as a member of the African Technical Advisory Committee which formed part of the first committee that established the African Open Science Platform in 2017. She is also one of the innovators of the VizAfrica Network and chaired the second VizAfrica Conference in 2019 delivered in collaboration with CODATA. She continues to serve in the organizing committees of the subsequent IDW and Viz Africa conferences.
As Head pf Department, she made contributions to the promotion of science and technology by providing leadership in the establishment of fostered local and regional collaborative projects around Hi Performance Computing (HPC) & Data Science Research, eHealth Research, Intelligent Systems Research and Open Data. She has served at national bodies such as the National Cyber Security Strategy Development Committee (2016) and its new Implementation Committee (2021).
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Editor - in - Chief of the Data Science Journal
- Executive Committee Member Ex Officio As Editor - in - Chief, Data Science Journal
Dr Sarah Callaghan is the Editor-in-Chief of the Data Science Journal. Her research background is in radio propagation, mixed with atmospheric science, and she is a recognised international expert in academic publication, particularly for the publication of non-traditional research outputs such as data.
She is a senior scientific researcher and project manager for the British Atmospheric Data Centre, part of the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA), at STFC Rutherford Appleton, UK. She currently project manages several large scale projects including the EU FP7 project CLIPC and internal JASMIN super-compute cluster development and operations. She is Communications Manager for the NERC Data Operations Group - working with members of the other NERC data centres, and is also a co-chair of the RDA-WDS Working Group on Publishing Data Bibliometrics. Previously she project-managed Metafor, an EU FP7 project devoted to collecting and standardising the metadata required for the 5th Climate Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5), which fed into the production of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) 5th Assessment Report.
She has experience of both creating and managing large datasets, and so understands well the frustrations that scientists can experience as a result of dealing with data!
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Chairman of the Physical
Anil Kumar is Chairman of the Physical and Materials Chemistry Division of National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India. He is a J C Bose National Fellow of Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi.
His main work is the areas of materials, thermodynamic data of biologically active molecules, modelling of a large body of such data. He has been active in the CODATA activities since 1998. He devotes his time to developing and educating people in collecting reliable data that can stand the test of time and he has amassed over 30 years of experience in this endeavour.
Anil's contribution has been recognized through his election to the Fellowship of Indian National Science Academy (INSA) New Delhi, Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc) Bangalore and National Academy of Sciences of India (NASI) Allahabad. During his elected tenure of vice-President of NASI, Allahabad, he devoted his time to analysing information and data on materials. He is a receipient of several highly-prized awards, including Homi Bhabha Gold Medal, Federation of Chambers of Commerce (FICCI) award to name a few.
Anil currently serves the National Committee on CODATA at INSA, New Delhi.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Distinguished Research Fellow of the Institute of Information Science
- Editor of Algorithmica
- President of National Chung Hsing University
Dr. Lee is Editor of Algorithmica, International Journal of Information and Computer Security, LNCS Transactions on Computational Science, Co-Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Computational Geometry & Applications, and Series Editor of Lecture Notes Series on Computing for World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore. He is Fellow of IEEE (1992), Fellow of ACM (1997), Academician of Academia Sinica (2004), Humboldt Research Awardee (2007), Science Profession Medal Awardee, National Science Council (2008), Member of TWAS (2008), Humboldt Ambassador Scientist in Taiwan (2010-2016) and Distinguished Alumni Educator Awardee, Dept. of Computer Science, and Comeback Guest Awardee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2014).
Dr. Der-Tsai Lee is President of National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, since 2011. He is on leave from the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, where he has been a Distinguished Research Fellow since 1998 and was the Director from 1998 to 2008. Prior to joining IIS, he was Professor of the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University, where he worked from 1978. He is also a Distinguished Research Chair Professor of Computer Science, National Taiwan University, Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, National Chung Hsing University and Honorary Chair Professor of National Taiwan Tech. He was Chair of CODATA-Taipei, International Council for Science (ICSU), from 2007 to 2013.
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- Secretary General
- Vice - President
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- President
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- President
- Vice - President
Laura is the senior research lead at CODATA, with a focus on the FAIRsFAIR project (https://www.fairsfair.eu/). She is Arts & Humanities Section Editor for the Data Science Journal (https://datascience.codata.org/) and joined the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts in 2016. She co-chairs the Research Data Alliance Interest Group on Education and Training for the Handling of Research Data, and the RDA IG Archives and Records Professionals; sits on the board of the Informal information literacy initiative; and regularly performs peer review for journals, conferences and award panels.
Laura has delivered a number of projects and initiatives in the digital preservation, digital curation and research data management (RDM) spaces since 2007. These include the management of a pilot UK research data discovery service for the Digital Curation Centre (DCC); advocacy and training to support RCUK expectations for RDM across the UK; skills-development and advocacy work for the FP7-funded Planets project; mapping of the JISC Managing Research Data (MRD) programme training outputs to the Vitae Researcher Development Framework and the SCONUL Seven Pillars models for JISC DaMSSI; production of the EC-funded DigCurV digital curation curriculum framework for cultural heritage; and work as Evidence Gatherer across the Jisc Managing Research Data programme of 2011-13.
Laura is interested in interdisciplinary research, creative arts professional practice; skills frameworks; improvement of the academic infrastructure for researchers including motivation and reward; research data policy development particularly for the arts and humanities; the development and certification of graduate education, training and careers in research data-related professions; transparent and ethical academic publishing, and the development of approaches to digital curation and RDM advocacy and training across all disciplines and user audiences, including the particular challenges of the articulation of digital curation and research data management good practice to non-science audiences. Her PhD in Information, Communication and the Social Sciences at the Oxford Internet Institute/Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, focused on digital curation and digital literacy skills in UK visual art professional practice. She also holds an MA in Scottish Literature and an MPhil in Information Studies from the University of Glasgow.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Vice President
- Professor and Director of Scientific Data at the Computer Network Information Center
Dr. LI Jianhui is professor and director of scientific data at the Computer Network information Center (CNIC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He is also the Secretary-General of the Chinese National Committee for CODATA.
Dr. LI was born in 1973, and obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Computing Technology of CAS in 2007. He has mainly engaged in the research of scientific data curation and sharing, data-intensive computing and applications, big data analysis and cloud service. For CAS, he leads and promotes the development of scientific databases sharing and he designed and led the development of scientific data infrastructure and its application environment. He was also the Co-PI of the National Data Sharing Network for Basic Research Project, which coordinated scientific research data sharing among universities, institutions and other research organizations. He is leading the design and further development of the Scientific Data Cloud of CAS (http://www.csdb.cn) for data sharing, big data analysis and large scale data-Intensive scientific research, and leading a group to design and develop a research data repository and data journal for scientific data publication in China. Dr. LI has published more than 50 papers and applied for 8 patents and 1 national standard.
He has also organized a series of activities to help promoting and improving scientific and technical data management and use, and increasing the impact of CODATA in China, including the International CODATA Conference, Task Groups, Training Workshops, etc.
As an Executive Committee member, he will link international CODATA and CODATA-CHINA, increasing CODATA visibility in China and promote CODATA as the natural home for Chinese data scientists. He will help to enhance the capacity building in developing countries, and push forward scientific data citation and publication practices. I this way, he willl help CODATA carry out its missions, objectives and key initiatives of its Strategic Plan 2013-2018.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Secretary General
- Director of the Information Technology and Systems
Dr. Sara James Graves is the Director of the Information Technology and Systems Center; the University of Alabama System Board of Trustees University Professor; and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. As well as being Secretary General of CODATA, her current service includes the National Academy of Sciences Board on Research Data and Information; the Science Advisory Board for the Oak Ridge Climate Change Science Institute; the Board of Trustees for the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA); and the Executive Committee of the Earth Science Information Partners Federation (ESIP). Dr. Graves directs research and development in Big Data analytics and visualization, semantic technologies, data mining and knowledge discovery, and sustainable software infrastructures. Her degrees are in Computer Science and Mathematical Sciences, and she has served as chair or member of over 100 Ph.D. and M.S. committees.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- President
Simon Hodson has been Executive Director of CODATA since August 2013.
Simon is an expert on data policy issues and research data management. Most recently, he chaired the European Commission's Expert Group on FAIR Data which produced the report Turning FAIR into Reality (https://doi.org/10.2777/1524). He was also vice-chair of the UNESCO Open Science Advisory Committee, with an influential role in drafting the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, which was adopted in November 2021. Previously he contributed to influential reports on Current Best Practice for Research Data Management Policies, to the Science International Accord on Open Data in a Big Data World, and to the OECD Global Science Forum and CODATA Report on Sustainable Business Models for Research Data Repositories.
As a significant part of his CODATA role, Simon is tasked with implementing a major ISC and CODATA Decadal Programme on ‘Making Data Work for Cross-Domain Grand Challenges', which will improve the coordination of specifications for data integration and interoperability for interdisciplinary research. The flagship activity is the EC-funded WorldFAIR Project, for which Simon is the coordinator. Simon also contributes activity to the work of the CODATA Data Policy Committee.
Additionally, Simon leads or participants in numerous projects, Working Groups and Steering Groups. In recent years, Simon has been a co-chair (2015-2018) of the GEO Data Sharing Working Group, to which CODATA has made a long-term contribution; co-chair of ; a member of the Board of Directors of the Dryad Data Repository (2012-2018), a not-for-profit initiative to make the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable; Project Director, African Open Science Platform Project (2016-19); and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of CESSDA ERIC, the European data infrastructure for the social sciences.
Simon has a strong research background, as well as considerable project and programme management experience: from 2009 to 2013, as Programme Manager, he led two successful phases of Jisc's innovative Managing Research Data programme in the UK.
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- Leader of Research Data Sharing Center
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the CODATA Executive Committee
- Program Director at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Elena Rovenskaya is the Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Program Director at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria. Her scientific interests lie in the fields of optimization, decision science, and mathematical modeling of complex socio-environmental systems.
Dr. Rovenskaya has been working at IIASA in different capacities since 2006. Currently she is leading the ASA Program which includes more than a hundred scientists and aims to identify, develop, and deploy new systems-analytical methods, tools, and data to help address the most pressing global sustainability challenges with greater agility.
As a member of the CODATA Executive Committee, Dr. Rovenskaya aims to promote a higher linkage between data and modelling that informs sustainability transformations at global, national, and local scales. Among other challenges, this includes the challenge to unlock the potential of data held by the private sector for research in the interests of the society.
She is also a research scholar at the Optimal Control Department of the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Lomonosov Moscow State University (on leave). She graduated in 2003 from the Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, and received her PhD in 2006 from the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics. Her PhD dissertation focused on the development of a new numerical method to solve large-scale non-convex optimisation problems.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Economist
Ernie Boyko is an agricultural economist with extensive experience in data development, data dissemination and research data management.
His wide experience at Canada's national statistics agency, Statistics Canada, involved working at senior levels in a variety of areas including: agriculture statistics, corporate planning, electronic dissemination, census operations and library and information services. As an advocate for data access, his crowning achievement at Statistics Canada was the creation of the Data Liberation Initiative with Wendy Watkins from Carleton University. This program allowed affordable access to all public microdata and aggregate files for the first time to post-secondary institutions. It has recently celebrated its 25th anniversary with 79 institutional members. DLI has been cited internationally as a model program for statistical institutions.
Ernie was involved in several assignments with the World Bank and OECD's PARIS21 projects. This involved work in several African and Asian counties in data development for agriculture statistics, dissemination and data management policies for statistical agencies. He was able to put his Statistics Canada and international experience to use while spending a decade as an Adjunct Data Librarian at Carleton University where he taught the basics of research data management to faculty and graduate student researchers.
He is a past president of the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) an organization he has been part of for nearly 30 years. This has given him exposure to the challenges of social science data services. It was under this umbrella that he was part of a working group that developed a metadata standard, the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI). DDI is now widely used as a standard for documenting research data. In 2018, IASSIST presented Ernie with a lifetime achievement award for his work.
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- Ex Officio Executive Committee Members 2023 - 2025
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Head for Earth System Informatics and Data Discovery Section at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Giri Prakash serves as the Section Head for Earth System Informatics and Data Discovery Section at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is responsible for overseeing data center groups that manages WDS member data centers such as Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Facility (ARM) Data Center and ORNL DAAC. As the director of Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Facility (ARM) Data Center, he is responsible for the leadership and management of the ARM Data Center. With a primary focus on operational activities and engineering necessary to sustain and advance excellence in the data management field. Specifically, the ARM Data Center Archive currently holds over 3 petabytes of data for 11,000 diverse observational data products. Giri leads the development and execution of multi-year plans that adapt the next-generation computing architecture to the increasing demands of data volume, rates, complexity, and the challenges of high-resolution modeling.
Giri has over 19 years of experience in scientific data management, discovery, metadata and data interoperability, FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) data principles, data citation, computing-as-a-service, web services, and visualization. His latest research interest includes enabling open science by adapting AI/ML capabilities in scientific data center operations. He currently serves a four-year term on the U.S. National Committee for CODATA, or USNC/CODATA. He actively participates in various international data sharing and interoperability working groups, data management workshops, and conferences.
He received a master of science degree in environmental sciences from Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada in 2000. He also holds a diploma in object oriented software technology from the University of Calgary in Canada. In addition, he holds a master of science degree in soil science and a bachelor's degree in agriculture from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in Coimbatore, India.
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- Operations Manager
- Secretariat As Operations Manager
Hana Pergl Sustkova joined the CODATA Secretariat as Operations Manager in December 2019 and is supporting the strategic activities of the CODATA Executive Committee. Her background is business administration and management.
In addition to her role at CODATA, Hana has also been managing operations of the GO FAIR International Support and Coordination Office (GFISCO) since October 2018. Prior to that, she served as a project manager to the ELIXIR research infrastructure, which marked her transition from an international corporation to the academic sphere.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- President
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- Member of the Executive Committee
Professor Jane Hunter is the Director of the eResearch Lab, at the University of Queensland where she leads a team of researchers and software engineers in the development of services to support the management, integration, analysis and preservation of large scale, multivariate datasets for the biomedical sciences, environmental and ecosystem sciences, materials sciences, social sciences and humanities. She has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers primarily focussing on ontologies, analytical and visualization services to solve real-world multi-disciplinary data integration and analysis problems. In the past 5 years, she has supervised 15 Honours students, 4 Masters students and 10 PhD students in the field of data science. She is also an editor of the Elsevier Journal of Web Semantics (JWS), International Journal of Digital Curation (IJDC) and SoftwareX (which publishes articles about open source software designed to expedite scientific discovery).
Jane is Chair of the Australian Academy of Sciences Committee for Data in Science (NCDS).
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Treasurer
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Treasurer
- Member of International
Data Policy and Strategy Expert, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Mr. Broome has over 30 years experience in government and the private sector in the areas of geophysical modeling and imaging, GIS, data architecture, web mapping, and scientific data stewardship and policy. He worked in geophysical consulting industry until 1983 when he joined the Geological Survey of Canada where he held a series of positions ranging from the application of computer technology and GIS for geoscience interpretation to the policies and standards necessary for the integration, management, and dissemination of digital scientific data and publications.
Mr. Broome is an active member of international groups focused on improving the management and accessibility of digital scientific and geospatial data, a Champion of the OneGeology-International initiative to make geological maps accessible online, and past Chair of the Canadian National Committee for CODATA.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
A member and the Chair of CODATA Kenya. A member of the editorial board of the Data Science Journal; editorial board of the African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development; committee of the AFRICA-ai-JAPAN Project Taskforce Project sponsored by JICA; training committee of the National Industrial Training Authority-Kenya; and the ccommittee of the United Nations SDGs on Agriculture and Climate Change Pillars of Kenya.
He coordinate all ICT related Memorandum of Understanding between JKUAT and partners.
Prof Wafula is a recipient of two IBM awards namely: the 2016 IBM Shared University Research Award on Open Data Cloud Project for JKUAT for building an open data platform for researchers in Africa, and the 2014 IBM MEA Award, for capacity building in Mobile Application development. He is professionally certified in various fields including Cyber Security, Mobile Application, ISO/IEC 27001:2005 Information Security Management System, Leadership and Management capacity Development, Sage ACCPAC ERP Financial and Operations Management Systems, and ISO 9001:2000 on Quality Management Systems.
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- Secretary of the National Committee
- Vice Chair of the International Scientific Data Committee
- Delegate to
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Associate Professor, University of Turku
- Chairman of the Committee
- Professor in Data Science at the Department
Chair of the Committee:
Leo Lahti, Associate Professor, University of Turku
Email: leo.lahti (at) utu.fi
Leo Lahti is professor in Data Science at the Department of Computing, University of Turku, Finland, where his team focuses on computational analysis of complex natural and social systems ranging from history of print press to human microbiome in large-scale population studies.
Lahti obtained doctoral degree (DSc) in probabilistic machine learning at the Aalto University in Finland (2010), developing data integration methods in life sciences. Lahti spent nearly a decade of his research career abroad, including internships and visiting scholarships at Dakshinayan (IN), CERN (CH), Croatian Meteorological Institute (CH), European Bioinformatics Institute EBI/Hinxton (UK), Wageningen University (NL), and VIB/KU Leuven (BE). He coordinates international developer networks in open data science and computational humanities methods, and organizes international training events on a regular basis.
He has been CODATA national delegate for Finland since 2022, and a member of the Data Ethics Task Group. He is also vice chair for the national open science and research coordination in Finland, board member in Open Knowledge Finland, member of the global R/Bioconductor Community Advisory Board and a certified Carpentries Instructor. Recently, he led a working group that created a national policy on open access to research methods in Finland and participated in the Ministry of Justice working group to renew the law on public information with a particular emphasis on e.g. challenges created by data and digitalization of society. As a member of the CODATA Executive Committee, Prof. Lahti aims to promote the emphasis on data interpretation and open access to methods and infrastructures surrounding data, and the exchange of best practices across disciplines, institutional, and geographical boundaries.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
Marc Nyssen has been active in the fields of medical informatics and biomedical engineering, as a researcher, as a developer, as a professor and as a volunteer. He has been pioneering in the medical internet applications, advocating Open Data and the adherence to the FAIR principles. He designed and developed several ICT systems in health care, among which the nation-wide electronic prescription system, now fully deployed in Belgium and as founder of the National Committee of Biomedical Engineering within the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgium. On the international level, he is devoted to the propagation of knowledge and experience world-wide via the IFMBE federation and the IUPESM union, also as promoter of several academic projects and education programs in Africa (RDC, Rwanda, Burundi, Niger) and in Cuba. Finally, for the last 10 years, Marc has been a member of the Flemish Data Protection Authority.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Research Scientist
- Executive Committee Member Ex Officio As Editor - in - Chief of the Data Science Journal
- Senior Research Scientist at the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Mark A. Parsons is a Senior Research Scientist at the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. As a geographer, his research interests include the role of mediation and social interaction in the success, development, and extension of data sharing networks. Mark was the first Secretary General of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) and stepped down in July 2017. He focusses on stewarding research data and making them more accessible and useful across different ways of knowing. He has lead major data stewardship efforts for more than 20 years, and received the American Geophysical Union Charles S. Falkenberg Award as an advocate of robust data stewardship as a vital component of Earth system science and as an important profession in its own right. Prior to joining Rensselaer, Mark was a Senior Associate Scientist and the Lead Project Manager at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). While at NSIDC, he defined and implemented their overall data management process and led the data management effort for the ICSU/WMO International Polar Year 2007-2008. He is active in several international committees and boards.
Mark A. Parsons is a Research Scientist and geographer at the University of Alabama in Huntsville working in NASA's Chief Science Data Office to help align data, software, and information standards and processes across NASA's science divisions. Mark has more than 30 years of experience in researching and developing data stewardship policies, practices, and systems. He has repeatedly and effectively built dynamic, functional collaborations across all sorts of differences in language and professional cultures. Mark was the first Secretary General of the Research Data Alliance. He has helped coordinate stewardship of a broad range of data from satellite remote sensing to Indigenous knowledge of Arctic change. He led the data management effort for the International Polar Year and helped establish the Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic (ELOKA). His published work has guided national data policies and practice and has contributed to educational programs. Mark lives in Colorado and likes to ride bicycles, bake bread, and play outside.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Executive Committee Member Ex Officio As Chair of CODATA Data Policy Committee
As the Executive Director for Research Data Canada (RDC), Mark facilitates the adoption of best practices in research data management (RDM) at the national and international levels. This includes engaging with stakeholders in all sectors, public and private, and via events such as the National Data Services Framework Summit, which is a key initiative in Canada developing details around national data services. As the Director of CANARIE's RDM Program, Mark has helped shape a funding approach based on the FAIR Principles, national data services, and interoperability.
Mark is Co-Chair of the Research Data Alliance Council, and co-chaired the RDA COVID-19 Working Group, which released its' first Guidelines on data sharing for COVID-19 research at the end of June, 2020. Mark provides a Secretariat function for the Canadian National Committee for CODATA, sits on a number of national and international committees with a focus on RDM, and participates in standards development efforts, including an ISO technical sub-committee reviewing the Research Activity ID
Prior to RDC, Mark served as the University Librarian at two Canadian institutions, along with senior administrative roles in technology and continuing education. Mark has long been a proponent of things open, from open source and open access to open science and open innovation. Mark founded a number of open source projects, including the Islandora project, along with the Islandora Foundation, and a private start-up, discoverygarden inc., all of which continue to provide solutions in a collaborative context to the international community. Mark's initial graduate work was in aquatic entomology and ecology, where he studied the thermal evolution of a species of damselfly. This background continues to inform and shape Mark's work today. Mark's current interests revolve around the intersections between open science, open source, and open innovation, both in terms of the policy and the technical details.
Mark holds a B.Sc. (1980) from Saint Mary's University, an M.Sc. (1984) from the University of Calgary, and an M.L.I.S from Dalhousie University (1986) and
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Data Management Co - Ordinator for the UK 's Natural Environment Research Council
Mark Thorley is the Data Management Co-ordinator for the UK's Natural Environment Research Council - NERC. He is responsible for activities relating to scientific data and information management, and for co-ordinating the activities of NERC's network of environmental data centres (see data.nerc.ac.uk). He is one of the authors of NERC's Science Information Strategy, and has specific expertise in the development and implementation of data and information policies, including issues around Open Access and Freedom of Information legislation, and on charging and reuse of public sector information. He works closely with the Financial Services Sector on a number of projects involved in making better use of environmental information in the understanding and pricing of environmental risk. He has also recently taken on responsibility for management of the library services within NERC's research centres.
He has been in this post since 2002. Prior to this he was manager of the Antarctic Environmental Data Centre at the British Antarctic Survey, where amongst other things he was one of the founders of the Antarctic Master Directory system. He is a member of the Research Councils UK (RCUK) Research Outputs Group which produced the RCUK Position Statement on Access to Research Outputs and he also represented the UK on the OECD working group which developed the Principles and Guidelines for Access to Digital Research Data from Public Funding.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
Previously Planning and Management Officer in the Strategic and Operational Planning Branch of the National Research Council of Canada. Mary Zborowski was the Executive Secretary for the Canadian National Committee for CODATA from 2002 to 2016, as well as Planning & Management Officer, Strategic and Operational Planning, at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). With a background in atomic and molecular physics, Ms Zborowski began her career with over 20 years' experience in library and information science, working extensively with databases, catalogues, collaborative projects, and delivery of information services to researchers. She is especially attuned to the complexities relating to the design and delivery of services during times of rapid technological change, and has managed numerous web-based projects. In this regard, she provides technical guidance to CODATA regarding its web-based presence and services. Since 2008, Ms Zborowski worked with NRC corporate performance data, designing and mining systems and processes to effectively support NRC's strategic directions and initiatives. Over the years, she has also had involvement with ICSU's International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) and numerous intergovernmental committees and working groups that have coped with issues closely aligned with those of CODATA.
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- Secretary of the National Committee
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- President of the International Union of Psychological Science
Pam Maras was elected as the first female President of the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS) in 2016 she now serves as past president on the IUPsyS Executive Committee. She is a Chartered Psychologist and a Fellow, Past President, and Past Honorary General Secretary of the British Psychological Society and a Chartered Scientist (CSci). Pam is Emerita Professor of Psychology at the University of Greenwich, London, UK, where she held senior University roles including chair of the independent committee for institutional compliance with ethical requirements including data stewardship.
Pam has international research collaborations, including in Africa, Australasia, China, Europe (including France, Nederland, Spain, and Italy), the Nordic countries, North and Latin America, and South-East Asia. Her publications included in the UK national assessment of research excellence in 2021 were independently rated as internationally excellent or outstanding.
Pam has an interest in applying science to social situations. She takes a principled approach to the need to ensure that: all regions of the world are able to engage in the ‘open science movement' as both contributors as well as recipients, and that social and behavioural sciences are equal partners in international science. Pam is actively committed to Gender Equality in Science and represents IUPsyS on the Standing Committee on Gender Equality in Science (SCGES).
As a psychologist Pam's contribution to CODATA could include representing and integrating psychological science into the adoption of principles and policy arising out of CODATA and partners, and at a disciplinary level on human behaviour; both of scientists and on applications of scientific discovery including in areas of interdisciplinary relevance. Pam's expertise is relevant to the impact of data, and the ethical development and implementation of policy. This can only be effectively achieved with integrity if common processes are adopted; this requires a shared understanding and commitment to act and cooperate - behavioural scientists such as psychologists are essential to this endeavour.
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- Consultant
- Member of the Executive Committee
PAUL F. UHLIR, J.D., is a consultant in data policy and management. He was Scholar at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in Washington, DC in 2015-2016, and Director of the Board on Research Data and Information at the NAS, 2008-2015. Paul was employed at the NAS from 1985-2015, first as a senior staff officer for the Space Studies Board, where he worked on solar system exploration and environmental remote sensing studies for NASA, and then as associate executive director of the Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications. He directed the Office of International S&T Information for eight years after that, where he organized projects and meetings on scientific data throughout the world, and from 1992 to 2015 he was director of the US CODATA at the NAS. Before joining the NAS, he worked in the general counsel's office at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the Department of Commerce in Washington, DC.
Paul has written or edited 27 books and over 70 articles, mostly in data law, policy, and management. He speaks worldwide on these topics and consults to governments, professional organizations, and universities. In 1997 he won the National Research Council's Special Achievement Award and in 2010 the CODATA International Prize, both in the field of data policy. He was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011.
Paul has a B.A. degree in world history from the University of Oregon (1977), and a Master's degree in foreign relations and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of San Diego (1983, 1984).
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- Member of the Executive Committee
Chair of the South African CODATA Committee. Currently I am a senior lecturer at the Department of the University of Johannesbu
rg at the Department of Information and Knowledge Management. My research interests include data duration and data policy. Through my work I have been exposed to some of the challenges and issues we are facing regarding the management of research data. I am the newly elected chair of the South African CODATA committee, and I am passionate and insistent on taking up the challenge set out by those who served before me. I have been very actively involved with the CODATA "Young Scientists" or as we are referred to now as the "Early Career Data Professionals (ECDP)", since Kiev CODATA conference in 2006 I have been working to improve the involvement of early career data professionals in CODATA.
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- Director, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology ( HIIT )
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Executive Committee Member 2012 - 2014 / Professor, Schools of Life Sciences & Computation and Integrative Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Vice - President
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Director - General of the Institute of Remote Sensing
Professor Guo Huadong is Director-General of the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (RADI) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), an Academician of CAS, and a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS). As well as serving as Past-President of CODATA, Prof. Guo is Director of the International Center on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage under the Auspices of UNESCO, Scientific Committee Member of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) programme, Secretary-General of the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE), and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Digital Earth (IJDE) published by Taylor & Francis. He has over thirty years of experience in remote sensing, specializing in radar for Earth observation and remote sensing applications, and has been involved in research on Digital Earth since the end of the last century. He has been Principle Investigator for over twenty major national projects or programs in China, and Principle Investigator for seven international radar remote sensing projects. He was appointed to the position of "Chief Scientist of the National Expert Committee for Information Acquisition and Processing Technology". Currently, he is the project Principal Scientist of Earth observation for Global Environmental Change, one of China's national basic research programs. Prof. Guo has published more than four-hundred papers and sixteen books, and is the principal awardee of thirteen national and CAS prizes, one being "National Outstanding Expert", awarded by the State Council of China.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Treasurer
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Vice - President
Dean of School of Hi-Tech Studies at the College for Academic Studies and Professor Emeritus of Tel Aviv University, Israel. Niv Ahituv is a Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University, and the Dean of Dan School of Hi-Tech Studies at the College for Academic Studies. He was a professor at the Faculty of Management in Tel Aviv University from 1981 till 2011. From 1989 to 1994 he served as the Dean of the Faculty of Management and from 1999 to 2002 he served as Vice President and Director General (CEO) of Tel Aviv University. He represented the Israeli Government in UNESCO in issues related to Information Technology from 1997 until 2011. He represents the Israeli National Academy of Sciences and Humanities in CODATA since 2006. His main areas of interest are information economics, IT strategy and management, social and business implications of the Internet, technology and privacy. On the latter issue, he published a book (in Hebrew) in 2001 entitled "A World without Secrets: on the Open Information Society". In 2005, he was awarded a Life Time Achievement Award by The Israeli Association for Information Technology.
In addition to his academic work, he has served as a director in more than a dozen of public companies in Israel including Chairperson of the Board of Maalot (an affiliate of S&P), and a number of non-for-profit organizations.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Vice - President
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Vice - President
- Vice - Director of the National Institute of Genetics
Prof. Takashi Gojobori is a Vice-Director of the National Institute of Genetics (NIG) and Professor at the Center for Information Biology and DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) in NIG, Mishima, Japan. He has more than 370 publications in peer-reviewed international journals on comparative and evolutionary genomics. He has also contributed to the DDBJ/GenBank/EMBL database construction as well as the H-Invitational human gene database. After finishing his Ph.D. (1979) at Kyushu University, Japan, he was Research Associate and Research Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Houston for 4 years (1979-1983). He has also been Visiting Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis (1985, 1986) and a Visiting Research Fellow at Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) in London
He received The Medal with Purple Ribbon from the Government of Japan in 2009. He has also been an Academician member of the Pontifical Academy of Science in Vatican (2007) and a Foreign Honorary Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006) and as a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2006). He has received the Salvatore Gold Medal from Italy (2004) and many other recognitions of his achievements in Japan.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Director General, Finnish National Archives
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- Fellow at the Inter - University Centre for Astronomy
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Executive Committee
Lead Consultant: Knowledge Management for Sasol Techonology. Refiloe Mabaso has twenty plus years' experience in the field of information and knowledge management and has been exposed to operations in various forms of business from medium to large corporate organizations including academic, non-government organizations and government organizations. She has been involved in the field of knowledge management and strategy since 1998, playing a dominant role in terms of system designs for information and knowledge management. Her contribution in this regard gave her some recognition and respect from previous management and colleagues in the industry. She has led with implantation of information and knowledge management strategy at The British Council, Gauteng Provincial Legislature, National Research Foundation, and Technology Innovation Agency. She also lectured on knowledge management for MBA students at UNISA School of Business Leadership.
Refiloe's working experience is supplemented by formal education from various academic institutions in the country, other in-house training and institutions abroad to improve and broaden her management and technical skills. Her highest qualification is MBA with University of South Africa. She has presented papers at various conferences and seminars both at National and International level on subjects related to Information Management and Knowledge Management. She is a member of various professional bodies / associations. She was the member of the CODATA Task Group on Data Sources for Sustainable Development in SADC Countries. Her involvement as a member of SA National Committee for CODATA dates back to 2009.
Refiloe is currently working for Sasol Technology as Knowledge Manager. This is a key strategic position within Sasol Technology to drive and position knowledge sharing within Sasol.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor of Chemistry in the School
- Vice President 2023 - 2025 Executive Committee Member 2018 - 2023
Professor Richard Hartshorn holds a BSc degree with first class honours from the University of Canterbury and a PhD from The Australian National University. Prior to his election as IUPAC Secretary General, he served as an Elected Member of the IUPAC Bureau (2014-2015), President of the IUPAC Division of Chemical Nomenclature and Structure Representation (2010-2013), and was a member of the IUPAC Committee on Chemistry Education (2006 - present). He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry.
His research group works in the area of applying the coordination chemistry of dinuclear and heterodinuclear systems to problems in biological chemistry, and he has a long-standing interest in nomenclature and new ways of systematically naming and representing chemical compounds. The interest in nomenclature led to involvement in and promotion of cheminformatics and data initiatives within IUPAC, and to membership of the International Chemical Identifier (InChI) Trust Board. He has been heavily involved in school and community education, through establishment of a science outreach program at UC, and is the Chair of Trust Board for the National Science-Technology Roadshow (www.roadshow.org), and for many years was a Board member of Science Alive! (www.sciencealive.co.nz/).
Professor Hartshorn devotes much of his spare time to coaching cricket, and often has a sore arm and shoulder from throwing cricket balls at his sons. He was a New Zealand U19 cricket representative and is a qualified cricket coach.
Richard Hartshorn is a Professor of Chemistry in the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences of the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. He has been Secretary General of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) since 2016, and will finish at the end of 2023. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry.
Professor Hartshorn holds a BSc degree with first class honours from the University of Canterbury (1985) and a PhD from The Australian National University (1989). He completed postdoctoral research with Professor Jackie Barton at CalTech, and a three-year contract lectureship at the University of Melbourne before returning to the University of Canterbury in 1994.
As Secretary General, Professor Hartshorn oversees the IUPAC Secretariat, and the scientific activities of the Union, encourages interdisciplinary activities within IUPAC and has advocated and encouraged a strategic move towards cheminformatics and other data related fields. He has been a member of the Executive Committee of CODATA (https://www.codata.org/) since 2018-2020, and has been a member of the International Chemical Identifier (InChI) Trust Board (https://www.inchi-trust.org/) since 2013.
Professor Hartshorn's research group works in the area of applying the coordination chemistry of dinuclear and heterodinuclear systems to problems in biological chemistry. He has a long-standing interest in nomenclature and new ways of systematically naming and representing chemical compounds, leading to numerous IUPAC publications, some of which have been translated into multiple languages.
Professor Hartshorn has a record of excellence in teaching, including the UC Teaching Medal (2009) The Federation of Asian Chemical Societies award for Distinguished Contribution to Chemical Education (2023), and the NZIC sciPAD Denis Hogan Chemical Education Award (2019). He has been heavily involved in school and community education, through establishment of a science outreach program at UC, and has been a member of the Trust Board for the National Science-Technology Roadshow (https://www.roadshow.org/index.php) since 2007 (Chair 2011-2020).
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Secretary General
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- Vice President, Natural Resources Institute Finland
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Vice Chair of the National Committee
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Executive Committee Member Ex Officio As Co - Lead of the CODATA Connect Early Career and Alumni Initiative
- Manager IT
Shaily Gandhi is a Manager IT and Geospatial Solutions at CEPT Research and Development Foundation. She is an active member of CODATA and initial lead for CODATA Connect - Early Career and Alumni Network. She has completed her Ph.D. degree from CEPT University, India in 2018. Her Ph.D. Major title was on "Critical success and failure factors for Pharmacutical Drugs Monitoring and Management using Geospatial Technology" and Minor study was on: "Spatio - Temporal Analysis of Urban Settlement - A case study of Rajkot". She has a Master's degree in Geoinformatics. She is been working at multiple organizations as a faculty and has been experimenting innovative teaching methods since last 8 years.
She is a Geoinformatics, Data Wrangling and Visualization expert. She is a certified Data Carpentry instructor. She has been one of the curator and instructor for the Urban Data Science Summer School which was developed as a successful collaboration which took place at CODATA-RDA Summer School in 2017. She is an alumnus of the CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School at Trieste. She has participated in multiple CODATA Activities.
She is keen to explore the implementation of GIS and data science in the domain of Urban Analytics. She has been involved in organizing a series of webinar under the Smart and Resilient Cities and Research Data Skill webinar series, along with competitions for young researchers. These activities are used to promote and improve scientific and technical research data management skills amongst the early career and alumni network.
As an Executive Committee co-opted member, she will link international CODATA and CODATA Connect initiative, increasing CODATA visibility in early career researchers. She will help to enhance awareness and conduct capacity building activities in developing countries.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
Simon Cox leads the Environmental Information Infrastructure team in CSIRO. With a background in geology and geophysics, he has been working on standards for publication and transfer of earth and environmental science data since the emergence of the world wide web. He has engaged with most areas of environmental science, including water resources, marine data, meteorology, soil, ecology and biodiversity, focusing particularly on cross-disciplinary standards. His current work focuses on aligning science information with the semantic web technologies and linked open data principles, and the formalization, publication and maintenance of controlled vocabularies and similar reference data. The value of cross-disciplinary standards is to enable data from multiple origins and disciplines to be combined more effectively.
He is principal- or co-author of a number of international standards through Open Geospatial Consortium, ISO, and World Wide Web Consortium. Simon has held leadership positions in a number of organizations, including Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (Advisory Board), IUGS Commission for Geoscience Information (Executive Committee), Open Geospatial Consortium (Architecture Board, Planning Committee), Research Data Alliance (Technical Advisory Board), American Geophysical Union (ESSI Executive Board), alongside numerous positions on technical working groups and committees. His career at CSIRO has been supplemented by stints teaching at Monash University, and as a senior fellow at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre.
Steve is Director of the Australian Data Archive at the Australian National University, where he is responsible for the strategic development of the data archive. He has high-level expertise in survey methodology and data archiving, and has been actively involved in development and application of survey research methodology and technologies over 15 years in the Australian university sector. He is currently a member of Australia's National Committee for Data in Science (Australian National CODATA committee), the DDI Alliance Executive Committee (https://ddialliance.org) and co-chair of the Research Data Alliance Social Science Interest Group.
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- Head of Unit, University of Tampere
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- Chairman of the National Committee
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- Chairman of the National Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Secretary of the International Scientific Data Committee
- Professor of Toyo University
Toshihiro Ashino is a professor of Toyo University. He is a member of Science Counsil of Japan (SCJ) and a secretary of International Data Committee and the chairperson of CODATA Sub-Committee of SCJ from 2018.
He is continuing research into data and knowledge representation for materials science and engineering. The article of materials ontology in CODATA Data Science Journal 2010 is regarded as an advanced research in current materials informatics area. He had co-chaired CODATA TG "Exchangeable Materials Data Representation" from 2006 to 2012, and from 2014, participating a Japanese national project, "Materials Integration" and playing an important role to develop materials data and knowledge representation for integrate heterogeneous information resources of materials science and engineering in collaboration with National Institute of Materials Science and The University of Tokyo.
He is also working for standardization of materials data representation, participating a series of CEN workshops, workshop on ‘Economics and Logistics of Standards compliant Schemas and ontologies for Interoperability - Engineering Materials Data' (WS/ELSSI-EMD, 2009-2010), ‘Standards for Electronic Reporting in the Engineering Sector' (WS/SERES, 2012-2014), ‘Fatigue Testing Data' (WS/FATEDA, 2016-2017), n ‘Mechanical Testing Data' (WS/METEDA, 2017-2018) and ‘Nanoindentation Testing Data' (WS/NATEDA, 2018-2020).
Also, Professor Ashino is working not only in materials science and engineering field, participating JOSS (Japan Open Science Summit) organization committee and RDUF (Research Data Utilization Forum) program committee, working to promote open data and open science activities in Japan.
Job Titles:
- Principal Contact at the Council of Finnish Academies Is
- Science Secretary
The principal contact at the Council of Finnish Academies is:
Veera Launis
Science Secretary
E-mail: veera.launis [at] academies.fi
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
Professor Virginia Murray is a medical doctor committed to improving data access and transparency for effective reporting. She was appointed as Head of Global Disaster Risk Reduction (GDRR) for Public Health England in April 2014 having worked in the UK health system for over 30 years. Data is critical for the implementation of the recent synchronous adoption of the 2015 landmark UN agreements of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015 - 2030 the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the COP21's Paris Climate Conference. It also imperative for the use of the WHO's International Health Regulations 2005 and has created a rare but significant opportunity to build coherence across different but overlapping policy areas. In her GDRR role, she has engaged with many science and technology partners in supporting the UNISDR STAG/ ISC/IAP partnership to implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 where it calls for:
Virginia Murray is a public health doctor committed to improving health emergency and disaster risk management. In 2014, she was appointed as Head of Global Disaster Risk Reduction for UK Health Security Agency (formerly Public Health England) having worked in the UK health system for over 40 years. She is a visiting/honorary Professor and fellow at several universities.
Virginia was appointed as a member (from 2008) and then vice-chair (from 2013 to 2017) of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reductio (UNDRR) Science and Technical Advisory Group to support the development of and then implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. With ISC and CODATA engagement, she is currently the Chair of the UNDRR/ISC Steering Group for Phase 2 update for 2025 of the UNDRR-ISC Hazard Information Profiles: Supplement published in 2021 and are now online.
She is also a co-chair of the WHO Thematic Platform Health and Disaster Risk Management Research Network, and by working in collaboration with this network, she is one of the editors of the WHO Guidance on Research Methods for Health and Disaster Risk Management, published in 2021 and updated in 2022.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the International Scientific Data Committee
- Vice Chair of the National Committee
Job Titles:
- International Scientific Data Committee Chair
Zhang Lili is a research scientist in the scientific data center at the Computer Network Information Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Zhang received her M.A. and Ph.D. degree in information management from Peking University, China and she also graduated from Nankai University, China with a dural Bachelor's degree in management science and economics. Her research focuses on research data sharing policy, practices and information economics.Currently, she also serves as the deputy director of editorial office of China Scientific Data (www.csdata.org) which is the leading data journal publishing bilingual data papers of multidisciplinary fileds in China.