RESEARCH SOFTWARE ALLIANCE - Key Persons
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- Director, Platforms and Software, Australian Research Data Commons, Australia ( 2019 - 2023 )
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- Talarify Executive Director
Talarify executive director, Anelda van der Walt has a background in bioinformatics and 20 years of experience in supporting the development of digital and computational research skills and communities and bridging the Global North and South.
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- Senior Research Engineer at Simula Research Laboratory
Anne is an Open Science and FAIR Software and Data Advocate. She is working at Simula Research Laboratory (Oslo, Norway) and is leading the Nordic Infrastructure Collaboration on Earth System Tools (NICEST) at the Nordic e-infrastructure Collaboration (NeIC). She never works alone, always in collaboration with community driven initiatives and open source communities such as Pangeo, The Environmental Data Science Book, The Turing Way and the Galaxy Project.
She is developing training materials and teaching basic-to-advanced research computing skills to students, researchers, Research Software Engineers from all disciplines to advance FAIRness of Software management and development practices so that research groups can collaboratively develop, review, discuss, test, share and reuse their codes.
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- Energy Data Centre Lead, Science and Technologies Facilities Council, UK ( 2019 - 2020 )
Caxton Murira is a Product Specialist and team lead for the Clinical Research and Trials Community (CRTC) programme at the Science for Africa Foundation. He is passionate about data and has delivered successful projects in a myriad of sectors such as health, governance, climate change for INGOs, government and public institutions. Caxton has an MSc in project management and a BSc in computer science. Prior to joining SFA Foundation, he worked at the African Academy of Sciences and other not for profit outfits in similar roles. Caxton is keen to promote open research initiatives, open data, and research software, with the goal of achieving fair access to healthcare and creating sustainable innovative solutions that address Africa's most pressing challenges.
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- Executive Director, Data Sciences, Stanford Data Science Initiative, Stanford University, USA ( 2019 - 2023 )
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- Programme Director of the Netherlands EScience Center
- Programme Director, Netherlands EScience Centre
Colette Bos is the programme director of the Netherlands eScience Center. Her main responsibility is the call strategy and responsibility for the project portfolio. For this, she works closely with the Programme Managers. She also contributes to the general management of the eScience Center in the directors' team and to external relations of the Netherlands eScience Center. Colette obtained her PhD at Utrecht University, with research on how scientists connect their work to large societal goals in science policy. After that, she moved to the Dutch Research Council (NWO), where she worked as a coordinator on the development of the Dutch National Research Agenda and as management board member in the European Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe. This was followed by two years as board secretary at the Mathematics department of Utrecht University, where she contributed to strategy and policy development and implementation of the department and where she managed operational matters.
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- Chairman
- Chief Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Daniel S. Katz is Chief Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), and Research Associate Professor in Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the School of Information Sciences (iSchool) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He was previously a Senior Fellow at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, a Program Director at the National Science Foundation, and had roles at Louisiana State University, NASA JPL, and Cray Research. Dan's interest is in the development and use of advanced cyberinfrastructure to solve challenging problems at multiple scales, including applications, algorithms, fault tolerance, and programming in parallel and distributed computing, and policy issues such as citation and credit mechanisms and practices associated with software and data, organization and community practices for collaboration, and career paths for computing researchers. He is a senior member of the IEEE and ACM, co-founder and current Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Open Source Software, and co-founder of the US Research Software Engineer Association (US-RSE).
Michelle co-founded ReSA in 2019 and brings extensive expertise in open science, research software, skills and infrastructure. As a sociologist, Michelle is passionate about building collaborative partnerships to achieve system change. Listen to her talk about her work on the RSE Stories podcast.
She serves on advisory boards for FAIR Impact, European Virtual Institute for Research Software Excellence (EVERSE), Research Software Engineers Asia Association, and the Research Data Alliance Organisational Advisory Board. As a consultant in the field of open science her roles have included chairing the OECD expert group on digital skills for the research sector and co-editing the European Open Science Cloud report, Digital Skills for FAIR and Open Science.
Michelle is a former Director of the Australian Research Data Commons, where she led the strategic planning for the Australian government's $180 million, five-year investment in ARDC, and the national research software infrastructure investment program.
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- Associate Professor, Universidad Carlos III De Madrid, Spain ( 2021 - 2023 )
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- Co - Director of Fiscally Sponsored Projects at CS & S
- Co - Director of the Fiscal Sponsorship Program at Code for Science and Society
Jessica Hardwicke is a Co-Director of the Fiscal Sponsorship Program at Code for Science and Society (CS&S), which is ReSA's fiscal sponsor. CS&S partner with leaders across public interest technology through comprehensive fiscal sponsorship. Projects in the fiscal sponsorship program are supported with financial and operational services. Their approach includes strategic support to develop governance, sustainability, and community strategies.
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- Head of the Data Division in the Scientific Computing Department at STFC
- Head of the Data Division, Science and Technology Facilities Council ( STFC )
Juan Bicarregui is Head of the Data Division in the Scientific Computing Department at STFC. Juan's division has responsibility for research and development of the data systems that handle much of the huge volume of scientific data that is produced by the STFC research facilities. Juan has played a key role in formulating UK policy on opening up access to research outputs and chaired the cross Research Council group which published the RCUK Joint Principles on Data and associated Guidelines. Juan was a member of the steering group that set up the Research Data Alliance and co-chaired the RDA Organisational Advisory Board. Currently, Juan is coordinator of the H2020 EOSCpilot project that is supporting the first phase in the development of the European Open Science Cloud.
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- Senior Research Data Scientist at University of California, Berkeley, USA ( 2019 - 2021 )
Kim joined ReSA in 2022, with support from the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, to facilitate the Research Software Funders Forum, a formal mechanism for international funding organisations to collaborate. Kim supports the Funders Forum by engaging the community in collaborative activities designed to share practices and address common challenges, with the intention of advancing the research software ecosystem.
A social anthropologist by training, Kim brings a passion for understanding the ways in which people live in different social and cultural settings globally to her work managing communities. She has extensive experience in academic research administration, including managing research ethics boards, advising diverse stakeholders, and building partnerships. Through her work in the broader public sector, Kim has facilitated a variety of research, scholarly, and creative activities.
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- Director, Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement, UK ( 2021 - 2023 )
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- Director of International and National Relations for the Digital Research Alliance of Canada
- Director of International Relations, Digital Research Alliance of Canada
Mark Leggott is the Director of International and National Relations for the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, and prior to that was the Executive Director of Research Data Canada. Mark was previously the Manager of CANARIE's Research Data Management Program, University Librarian at the University of PEI, and President of Discovery Garden Inc. Mr. Leggott has over 30 years of experience in the higher education sector, as well as experience in the private and non-profit sectors. He has long been involved in a range of international initiatives, including those promoting the adoption of open science and open source as a way to stimulate discovery and innovation.
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- Director, Software Sustainability Institute, University of Edinburgh
- Founding Director of the Software Sustainability Institute and Professor of Research Software Policy
Neil P. Chue Hong is the founding Director of the Software Sustainability Institute and Professor of Research Software Policy and Practice at EPCC, University of Edinburgh. He works to improve software sustainability, research software engineering practices, research software communities of practice, and the impact of research software policy and incentives. He has co-led development and implementation of international research software guidelines including the FAIR Principles for Research Software, Software Citation Principles, and NISO Reproducibility Badging and Definitions. He holds a number of research funder advisory roles, including chairing the steering committee for the UK's exascale software, algorithms and infrastructure programme (ExCALIBUR) and a member of the UKRI Net Zero Digital Research Infrastructure steering committee, BBSRC Transformative Technologies strategic advisory panel, and NERC Digital Research Infrastructure Investment Board. He is the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Open Research Software, and co-editor of "Software Engineering for Science".
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- Adjunct Researcher at the National Research Council
- Adjunct Researcher, National Research Council in Argentina ( CONICET )
Nicolás is an Adjunct Researcher at the National Research Council in Argentina (CONICET) and a Project Leader at the Structural Bioinformatics Group, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (UNQ, Buenos Aires, Argentina). His research is focused on understanding the functional nature of proteins, with special interest in their evolutionary relationships and their interactions in biological systems. He is a certified trainer and over the last 15 years he has delivered online and virtual courses on biology, programming and education for graduate and postgraduate university students, as well as several workshops in different communities of practice. Nicolas is also the Co-Executive Director and Advisory Committee Chair of MetaDocencia, an online community that builds scientific and technical capacities through the co-creation of networks, learning spaces, and accessible resources focused on Spanish-speaking communities.
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- Senior Director, Programs, CANARIE, Canada ( 2019 )
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- Director of Community Development and Engagement, the Carpentries, Estonia ( 2021 )
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- Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto
Shurui Zhou is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on facilitating distributed and interdisciplinary software teams to build high-quality systems, including but not limited to building better programming environments for software developers, designing better code review and issue tracking systems to facilitate better collaboration among team members, and identifying vulnerabilities from the codebase. She studies and tackles the problems from both technical and social perspectives, especially in the context of modern open-source collaboration forms, Industrial plant software, and interdisciplinary teams when building AI-based systems or scientific software. She also investigates the collaboration challenges for hardware teams, specifically for CAD designers using online collaborative platforms. To achieve her goals, she combines advances in tooling and software engineering principles with insights from other disciplines that study human collaboration, for which she combines and mixes a wide range of research methods.
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- Co - Director, Quansight, UK ( 2021 )
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- Associate Professor, University of California, Davis, USA