CarpentryCon @ Home Schedule

David Selassie Opoku Data Scientist,

Bianca Peterson Researcher and Post-doctoral fellow: Pharmaceutics, North-West University, South Africa

Bianca obtained her doctoral degree in Environmental Sciences (Molecular Biology) at the department of Microbiology, North-West University (NWU), Potchefstroom, in August 2017. She is currently a post-doctoral research associate at the Centre of Excellence for Pharmaceutical Sciences (Pharmacen™), NWU, Potchefstroom under the supervision of Professor J.D. Steyn, where she conducts data analyses. Part of her post-doctoral responsibilities entail guidance, supervision and mentoring of undergraduate and post-graduate students. Furthermore, she is the director and trainer of Conquest Analytics and Training, which is a consulting company specialising in data analysis and data skills training. She is passionate about research (specifically genetics) and teaching foundational computational skills. She believes that the extraordinary advancement of technology, particularly in Life Sciences, has made bioinformatics skills crucial to ensure people acquire the necessary skills and competencies to survive and contribute to the rapidly changing society. As a result, she certified as a Carpentries instructor in 2016, teaching foundational computational skills at 2-day hands-on workshops. She then attended the first CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School in Trieste, Italy, in 2016, and returned in 2017 as a helper. She taught at the first South African Summer School in January 2020, and joined the Summer School Working Group as a co-chair to help strategise, co-organise and co-teach at these Summer Schools worldwide and help to develop the train-the-trainer model.

Lilly Winfree Product Owner, Frictionless Data, Open Knowledge Foundation

Lilly is the product manager for the Frictionless Data for Reproducible Research project at Open Knowledge Foundation. She has her PhD in neuroscience from Oregon Health and Science University, where she researched brain injury in fruit flies and became an advocate for open science and open data. Outside of work, you'll find her hanging out with her dogs, running, baking, eating tacos, or reading sci-fi.

Monica Granados Mitacs Canadian Science Policy Fellow, Environment and Climate Change Canada

Dr. Monica Granados is committed to making science more open and accessible. She is currently a Mitacs Canadian Science Policy Fellow at Environment and Climate Change Canada working on open science, she is on the leadership team of PREreview working to bring more diversity to peer review, a Frictionless Data Fellow and on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Open Data Society.

Ouso Daniel Task Force Co-chair, CarpentryCon @ Home

Ouso has a research background in molecular biology with latter interests in bioinformatics. He has MSc. in Molecular biology and Bioinformatics from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya. He has worked short contracts as bioinformatics support (training) at ICIPE, recently completed the Frictionless Data fellowship at the Open Knowledge Foundation and is a certified Carpentries instructor. Ouso is currently co-chair of the CarpentryCon Task Force. He is interested in computational interventions in biological research and also involved with open and reproducible science advocacy.

Pablo Bernabeu Psychology PhD student and teaching assistant, Lancaster University, UK

After doing a research masters, Pablo became a PhD student and graduate teaching assistant in Psychology. Pablo is investigating how conceptual processing (i.e., understanding the meaning of words) is supported by linguistic and sensorimotor brain systems. He has used methods such as behavioural and electroencephalographic experiments, corpus analysis, statistics and programming.

Florencia D'Andrea Postdoctoral Researcher, National Institute of Agricultural Technology, Argentina

Florencia is a postdoc researcher who approached The Carpentries interested in the lessons specifically designed for scientists. She currently participates in programming-related communities such as ReproHack and R-Ladies and is chair of LatinR 2020.

Sara El-Gebali Founder, Open Computational Inclusion and Digital Equity Resource (OpenCIDER)

Dr. Sara El-Gebali is the team leader for the research data management group at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin and the founder of OpenCider (Open Computational Inclusion and Digital Equity Resource) https://selgebali.gitbook.io/opencider/ . Before joining the MDC, she was a scientific database curator at the European Molecular Biology Laboratories (EMBL)-EBI and EMBO and my background is in cancer biology. She is a strong advocate for community building, inclusive spaces and the promotion of women and underrepresented minorities in STEM and open research.

Nazeefa Fatima Co-founder, Open Computational Inclusion and Digital Equity Resource (OpenCIDER)

I am a computational biologist based in Sweden. I studied bioinformatics at the Lunds Universitet and, during my studies, I developed skills in data analysis for genomics and transcriptomics research. After completing masters, I worked for the National Genomics Infrastructure. Besides research, I contribute my time to RSG-Sweden and the International Society of Computational Biology. I care about mental health, accessible research, community building, and increasing visibility of people underrepresented in the field of computational biology.

Luca Di Stasio Post-doctoral Researcher & Professional Engineer, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden

Currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computational Solid Mechanics at KAUST, Saudi Arabia, I am a Professional Engineer (Italian License, 2013) and I completed a Ph.D. in Polymeric Composite Materials at Luleå University of Technology (2019) and a Ph.D. in Materials Science at Université de Lorraine (2019). To know more about me visit http://www.lucadistasioengineering.com.

Olalekan J. Akintande PhD student and Research Assistant , University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Olalekan Joseph Akintande is a PhD student and Research Assistant at Department of Statistics, University of Ibadan- Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis.

Arindam Basu Doctor, Professor of Epidemiology, and Evidence based health, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Arindam Basu is an Associate Professor in Public Health (Environmental Health and Health Services Research).

Cody Hennesy Journalism and Digital Media Librarian, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA

Cody Hennesy (he/him/his) is the Journalism and Digital Media Librarian at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Alexis Logsdon Humanities Research and Digital Scholarship Librarian, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA

Alexis Logsdon (she/her/hers) is Humanities Research and Digital Scholarship Librarian at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Wanda Marsolek Engineering Liaison and Data Curation Librarian, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA

Wanda Marsolek (they/them/theirs) is the Engineering Liaison and Data Curation Librarian at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Kate Hertweck, Ph.D. Bioinformatics Training Manager, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Kate Hertweck is the bioinformatics training manager at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, where they develop and teach courses on reproducible computational methods as a part of fredhutch.io. Kate's graduate training at University of Missouri in genomic evolution of plants was followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) at Duke University, where they fell in love with R and began working exclusively in computational biology. Kate then spent four years as an assistant professor teaching bioinformatics, genomics, and plant taxonomy before transitioning to biomedical research training. Kate has been involved in The Carpentries, a non-profit organization that teaches reproducible computational methods, since 2014, serving as a leader in community governance since 2016. When not being an overenthusiastic instructor, Kate likes to spend their time doing fiber arts (knitting, crochet) and enjoying all things science fiction.

Paula A. Martinez National Training Coordinator, National Imaging Facility, Australia

My name is Paula Andrea Martinez. I have a background in Computer Sciences a Masters in Bioinformatics. I completed my PhD in Applied Bioinformatics in 2016 with a focus on analysing genomic diversity with computational methods. I have been a bioinformatician and a trainer of computational skills and data management best practices, for the last three years. I am now part of a national project delivering and coordinating training for the Characterisation Community. The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) funds this project and I work with 10 Universities around Australia. The project lead team is at Monash University and I work from the University of Queensland as part of the National Imaging Facility (NIF central).

Sarah Brown Postdoctoral researcher, Brown University, USA

I am a Data Science Initiative Postdoc at Brown University affiliated to the Division of Applied Mathematics and hosted by Professor Bjorn Sandstede. Previously, I completed a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley with faculty mentor Professor Mike Jordan. I completed a BS in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Biomedical Engineering in 2011 a MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a PhD in Electrical Engineering in 2016 advised by Jennifer Dy both at Northeastern University. My graduate studies were supported by a Draper Laboratory Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. My other professional activities include teaching computational data analysis skills to researchers with The Carpentries and serving as the treasurer emeritus on the Women in Machine Learning, Inc Senior Advisory Council.

David Pérez-Suárez Research Software Engineer, Research IT Services, University College London

David is a research software engineer that doubles as a solar physicist. He has been involved with the Carpentries since 2012. He's an open-everything advocate and he is obsessed with collaborative tools.

David Pérez-Suárez Research Software Engineer, Research IT Services, University College London

David is a research software engineer that doubles as a solar physicist. He has been involved with the Carpentries since 2012. He's an open-everything advocate and he is obsessed with collaborative tools.

Florencia D'Andrea Postdoctoral Researcher, National Institute of Agricultural Technology, Argentina

Florencia is a postdoc researcher who approached The Carpentries interested in the lessons specifically designed for scientists. She currently participates in programming-related communities such as ReproHack and R-Ladies and is chair of LatinR 2020.

Sarah Brown Postdoctoral researcher, Brown University, USA

I am a Data Science Initiative Postdoc at Brown University affiliated to the Division of Applied Mathematics and hosted by Professor Bjorn Sandstede. Previously, I completed a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley with faculty mentor Professor Mike Jordan. I completed a BS in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Biomedical Engineering in 2011 a MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a PhD in Electrical Engineering in 2016 advised by Jennifer Dy both at Northeastern University. My graduate studies were supported by a Draper Laboratory Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. My other professional activities include teaching computational data analysis skills to researchers with The Carpentries and serving as the treasurer emeritus on the Women in Machine Learning, Inc Senior Advisory Council.

Paula A. Martinez National Training Coordinator, National Imaging Facility, Australia

My name is Paula Andrea Martinez. I have a background in Computer Sciences a Masters in Bioinformatics. I completed my PhD in Applied Bioinformatics in 2016 with a focus on analysing genomic diversity with computational methods. I have been a bioinformatician and a trainer of computational skills and data management best practices, for the last three years. I am now part of a national project delivering and coordinating training for the Characterisation Community. The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) funds this project and I work with 10 Universities around Australia. The project lead team is at Monash University and I work from the University of Queensland as part of the National Imaging Facility (NIF central).

Florencia D'Andrea Postdoctoral Researcher, National Institute of Agricultural Technology, Argentina

Florencia is a postdoc researcher who approached The Carpentries interested in the lessons specifically designed for scientists. She currently participates in programming-related communities such as ReproHack and R-Ladies and is chair of LatinR 2020.

Jordan Pedersen Metadata Librarian, University of Toronto Libraries, Canada

Jordan Pedersen is Metadata Librarian at the University of Toronto Libraries, a certified Carpentries Instructor and a recent graduate from the Master of Information program at the University of Toronto's iSchool.

Neal E. Davis Teaching Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of Illinois, USA

Neal E. Davis is a Teaching Assistant Professor, Computer Science at the University of Illinois. Neal received his PhD in 2013 from the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois. His doctoral research involved the simulation of uranium surface chemistry using density functional theory and kinetic Monte Carlo modeling. He also studied chemical engineering and high-performance computing. Davis has worked with the Computational Science and Engineering program at the University of Illinois on developing, promoting, and teaching best practices for engineering and scientific software. He has also worked closely with Software Carpentry since 2013, teaching open science techniques, reproducibility, and task automation to domain researchers. At CS @ ILLINOIS, he continues to promote the communication of key software development concepts and technical best practices between the engineering and computer science communities.

Melissa Ko Lecturer and Researcher, Stanford University, USA

Dr. Melissa Ko earned an S.B. in biology from MIT and a PhD in cancer biology from Stanford University. Her graduate research used visualizations and computational modeling to reveal mechanisms of drug resistance in different cancer subtypes and identify more effective treatment combinations. As a current Thinking Matters Fellow at Stanford, Melissa teaches freshmen-level classes including Living with Viruses, The Cancer Problem, and Our Genome, while conducting educational research on how social networks develop among instructors participating in professional development. In addition, Melissa has designed biology courses at other local institutions like Foothill College and Santa Clara University and teaches with the Software/Data Carpentries and Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies to introduce learners to programming in R and Python. Outside of work, Melissa enjoys volunteer work, fun coding projects, cooking, playing video games, reading, and taking her dog for walks in the park.

Darach Miller Yeast Geneticist and Postdoctoral Researcher, Joint Initiative for Metrology in Biology, USA

Darach Miller is a card-carrying yeast geneticist and postdoctoral researcher at the Joint Initiative for Metrology in Biology.

Claudia Engel Academic Technology Specialist and Lecturer in Anthroplogy, Stanford University, USA

Claudia is Academic Technology Specialist and Lecturer in Anthroplogy at Stanford University. In collaboration with graduate students and faculty she facilitates and conducts innovative digital research in Anthropology.

Melissa Ko Lecturer and Researcher, Stanford University, USA

Dr. Melissa Ko earned an S.B. in biology from MIT and a PhD in cancer biology from Stanford University. Her graduate research used visualizations and computational modeling to reveal mechanisms of drug resistance in different cancer subtypes and identify more effective treatment combinations. As a current Thinking Matters Fellow at Stanford, Melissa teaches freshmen-level classes including Living with Viruses, The Cancer Problem, and Our Genome, while conducting educational research on how social networks develop among instructors participating in professional development. In addition, Melissa has designed biology courses at other local institutions like Foothill College and Santa Clara University and teaches with the Software/Data Carpentries and Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies to introduce learners to programming in R and Python. Outside of work, Melissa enjoys volunteer work, fun coding projects, cooking, playing video games, reading, and taking her dog for walks in the park.

Lorraine Ling Coral Genomics and Symbiosis Postdoctoral Scholar, Pringle Lab, Stanford University, USA

Lori is a postdoctoral scholar studying coral genomics and symbiosis in the Pringle Lab at Stanford University. Lori was trained as a Carpentries Instructor in 2016 at Stanford and since then has co-instructed many R-flavored workshops (SWC & DC) on campus.

Naoe Tatara Regional Coordinator, Code Refinery, Norway

Naoe is the Carpentries and CodeRefinery's Regional Coordinator in the Nordic countries. In the mega CodeRefinery online workshop, she served as Zoom-host. She works at the University of Oslo Library as an advisor within Digital Scholarship services and supports training activities including Carpentries at the university. Naoe's ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0049-1634

Radovan Bast Senior Research Software Engineer, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Radovan is the project leader of the CodeRefinery project and has taught in many CodeRefinery workshops, both in-person and online. In the mega CodeRefinery workshop, he served as both instructor and expert helper. Working as senior engineer in a research software engineer role at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

Richard Darst Staff Scientist, Aalto University, Finland

Richard is a HPC and Scientific Computing Specialist with emphasis on Research Software Engineering, training, and usability. He took initiative of the mega CodeRefinery online workshop and was the lead organizer, HackMD master, and expert helper. He has been a member of CodeRefinery since 2017. He works as a staff scientist at Aalto Scientific Computing, Aalto University, Finland with connections to Computer Science-IT and Research Services (Data Agent) teams.

Anne Fouilloux Staff Scientist, University of Oslo, Norway

Anne is an experienced instructor in the CodeRefinery, Carpentries, and a series of training workshops. She served as both instructor and expert helper in the mega CodeRefinery online workshop. She works as a Research Software Engineer at the Department of Geosciences at University of Oslo.

Petri Jehkonen Master's Thesis Student, Aalto University, Finland

Petri is a master's thesis student at Aalto University. Thesis topic is Detecting Saltatory pattern from Cardiotocography data. He has worked with several roles with companies offering hardware and software solutions. He has solid background with C-programming language, and he has during past few years learned new programming paradigms and languages. He is relatively new to modern tools such as are included in CodeRefinery workshop.

Samantha Wittke Researcher, Finnish Geospatial Research Institute (FGI), Finland

Samantha is a PhD student at Aalto University and researcher at Finnish Geospatial Research Institute (FGI) with background in Natural Sciences and Geo information technology. Her thesis topic is the application of Machine Learning on Remote Sensing time series. She has working knowledge in Python programming and big data analysis. In the mega CodeRefinery workshop she served as a helper on a team of people from FGI.

Matúš Kalaš , Postdoctoral researcher, University of Bergen, Norway

Matúš is a Postdoc at the Computational Biology Unit, with previous experiences from the software industry; especially with developing efficient user interfaces and integrating information systems. Since switching to the academia, he concentrates on open source software, open science, standardisation, software integration, ontologies, teaching, outreach, and community building.

Alan O'Cais E-CAM Software Manager, Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Germany

Peter Steinbach Helmholtz AI Consultants Team Lead for Matter Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany

Christina Koch Research Computing Facilitator, Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC), Wisconsin, USA

Christina Koch Research Computing Facilitator, Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC), Wisconsin, USA

Darya Vanichkina Data Analytics Trainer and Data Scientist , Sydney Informatics Hub, Australia

Hi! I'm Darya, a Data Scientist & Professional Educator. I work at the University of Sydney's Informatics Hub as a data science consultant, supporting researchers from across the university by solving their big (and not-so-big) data problems. I also coordinate SIH's data science training program, where I mentor staff in best teaching practices, develop and deliver advanced analytics training for researchers.

I'm passionate about using data to understand the world, and love solving real problems using data science, machine learning, statistics and high-performance/cloud computing. I've had a lot of amazing opportunities in my life, and my way of giving back to the universe for them is to train and teach.

I'm proud to be a Software and Data Carpentry Instructor, Maintainer, Curriculum Contributor, and Mentor, and am passionate about enabling reproducible research using open source tools. I'm also an RStudio certified trainer; reach out to me here if you're interested in custom corporate training.

Brian Ballsun-Stanton Solutions Architect (Digital Humanities), Macquarie University Faculty of Arts, Sydney, Australia

Brian is solutions architect (Digital Humanities) for Macquarie University's Faculty of Arts. He has over 8 years designing and delivering technical solutions for academic and student research projects at the Macquarie University Faculty of Arts and UNSW Australia. Chief Investigator in grants and prizes across the humanities and social sciences totalling over AUD $2,610,000. These have included Technical Director for a field-data collection project, delivering 50+ field data collection modules since 2013. Active member of The Carpentries Trainers Leadership group, Instructor Trainer, and Instructor in good standing. Lead instructor for 10+ carpentries workshops delivered since 2017 and active in local initiatives such as the Research Bazaar Sydney. Developed a partnership with Ubisoft that led to Macquarie University's engagement on the Google Arts and Culture Platform, using AI to assist researchers in translating Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Co-supervised two MRES students using technology as a fundamental component of their research. Provision of technical advice, database designs and solution-focused support for academic and student research projects across Australian and International academic institutions. An internationally respected researcher in the Digital Humanities with eleven peer-reviewed publications, book-chapters, and conference presentations.

Francisco Palm Data Scientist, Spiralia, Venezuela

Daniel Chen PhD Student, Virginia Tech, USA

I am a PhD student at Virginia Tech (VT) in Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology ( GBCB ) working with Anne Brown and DataBridge studying data science education and pedagogy for medicial practitioners. Former RStudio intern working on the gradethis package.
Arch Linux user maintaining the RStudio Preview , nteract , and Rodeo packages in the AUR .
Author of Pandas for Everyone .Enjoys: photography , curling, snowboarding, and scuba diving into caves.

Greg Wilson Educator, RStudio, Canada

I left academia in 2010 and spent the next seven years building Software Carpentry into a non-profit organization that helps thousands of researchers worldwide every year. I also helped organize a summit meeting of grassroots groups trying to improve inclusion and diversity in the tech sector, edited a book on evidence-based software engineering and a series on software architecture, and wrote some more children's books.

I left Software Carpentry in January 2017, and after a brief stints with Rangle.io (sponsors of the wonderful Bridge program) and DataCamp (which ended badly), I am now in the Education group at RStudio, makers of a world-class IDE and other fine tools. My main responsibility is RStudio's instructor training and certification program, but my job gives me a chance to do a lot of other things, including a book called Teaching Tech Together and another on JavaScript for data scientists.

Malvika Sharan Community Manager, The Turing Way project, Turing Institute, UK

Malvika Sharan is the community manager of The Turing Way at The Alan Turing Institute. Malvika works with its community of diverse members to develop resources and ways that can make data science accessible for a wider audience. Malvika has a PhD in Bioinformatics and she worked at European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany, that helped her solidify her values as an Open Researcher and community builder. She is a co-founder of the Open Life Science mentoring program, a fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute and a board member of Open Bioinformatics Foundation.

Yo Yehudi Open Source Developer, Intermine, UK

I'm Yo Yehudi, a software engineer at InterMine, an open source biological data platform at the University of Cambridge. I'm comfortable coding full stack, but my favourite bit of all is the place software intersects with people: the User Interface. Mockups, codes, and user testing are my bread and butter.

Emmy Tsang Innovation Community Manager, eLife, UK

Emmy Tsang is the Innovation Community Manager at eLife, a non-profit organisation with the mission to accelerate research communication and discovery. She is responsible for the day-to-day running of the eLife Innovation Initiative, which supports the development of open-source tools, technologies and processes aimed at improving the discovery, sharing, consumption and evaluation of scientific research. She is passionate about building communities, fostering collaborations and developing technological solutions to make research more open, reproducible and user-friendly.

Naoe Tatara Regional Coordinator, Code Refinery, Norway

Naoe is the Carpentries and CodeRefinery's Regional Coordinator in the Nordic countries. In the mega CodeRefinery online workshop, she served as Zoom-host. She works at the University of Oslo Library as an advisor within Digital Scholarship services and supports training activities including Carpentries at the university. Naoe's ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0049-1634

Annika Rockenberger Research Data Management Advisor, University of Oslo Library

Annika works at the University of Oslo Library as an advisor for research data management and serves as the local coordinator of Carpentries activities. She has a background in the humanities and research experience with a variety of digital projects. Since 2015 she's been involved with the Carpentries, since 2018 as a certified instructor and since 2020 as an instructor trainer.

Ariel Deardorff Data Services Librarian, University of California San Francisco Library, USA

Konrad Förstner Data Services Librarian, ZB MED, Germany

I am a researcher in the field of in bioinformatics / computational biology / systems biology. My methodical focus is the integration and interpretation of large data sets - mainly generated using high-throughput sequencing technologies but also text corpora - with the aim to translate them into biological and medical insights. As part of that I am advocating open science with all its facets (data, publications, source code of research software, educational resources, publication metrics etc.) and am active in several groups/communities promoting this.

Rabea Müller Library Science student, TH Köln -- University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Rabea is studying Library Science at the TH Köln -- University of Applied Sciences and is member of the Data Science and Services department of ZB MED. She is involved in several activites in the Carpentries community as an Instructor and Maintainer.

Konrad Förstner Data Services Librarian, ZB MED, Germany

I am a researcher in the field of in bioinformatics / computational biology / systems biology. My methodical focus is the integration and interpretation of large data sets - mainly generated using high-throughput sequencing technologies but also text corpora - with the aim to translate them into biological and medical insights. As part of that I am advocating open science with all its facets (data, publications, source code of research software, educational resources, publication metrics etc.) and am active in several groups/communities promoting this.

Unnati Patel ,

Kristina Hettne Digital Scholarship Librarian, Leiden University Libraries, Netherlands

Kristina Hettne (1978), PhD, is a Digital Scholarship Librarian at the Centre for Digital Scholarship, Leiden University Libraries in Leiden, The Netherlands. She obtained her Masters in Computer Science from Skövde University in Sweden in 2003 and shortly thereafter joined the computational toxicology group at AstraZeneca R&D in Mölndal, Sweden as a research scientist. In 2006, she moved to the Netherlands to pursue her PhD degree in bioinformatics of toxicogenomics, which she obtained from the University of Maastricht in 2012. In 2011 she joined the BioSemantics group at the Leiden University Medical Center as postdoctoral researcher. From 2015 to 2018 she led the group’s research on knowledge discovery applications as a senior researcher. In October 2018 she joined the Centre for Digital Scholarship at the Leiden University Libraries as a Digital Scholarship Librarian, where she helps researchers navigate Open Science and shape the future of research data management. She is the Centre’s liaison with GO FAIR and part of the FAIR Convergence Matrix development team for optimiSing the reuse of existing FAIR-related resources. She is a review editor for “Frontiers in Big Data”, member of the Advisory Board of the Wiley journal “Advanced Genetics”, and co-author of more than 35 research publications.

Chris Erdmann Community Expert for NHLBI BioData Catalyst project, University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute, USA

Christopher Erdmann is an author, developer, and experimenter in the areas of digital libraries, social networking, library UX, interactive technologies, bibliometrics, and data services in libraries. He is currently an engagement, support, and training expert on the NHLBI BioData Catalyst project at University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute. He has previously worked for organizations such as California Digital Library (Library Carpentry), North Carolina State University, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, European Southern Observatory, Supreme Court of the US, United Nations, University of Washington, Smithsonian, and CNET. Chris holds an MLIS from the University of Washington iSchool and a BA from the University of California, Davis.

Liz Stokes Senior Research Data Skills Specialist, Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), Australia

Liz Stokes is a Senior Research Data Skills Specialist at the Australian Research Data Commons. She runs data skills training and supports communities involved in research data management. Liz co-chairs the Library Carpentry Advisory Group with Ariel Deardorff, and is a recently badged Carpentries Instructor and Trainer. Liz is passionate about socialising better data management practices which enable reproducible research, for people who do the research and those providing support services.

Hannah C. Gunderman Research Data Management Consultant, Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, USA

Hannah C. Gunderman is a Research Data Management Consultant with Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. She is relatively new to librarianship, having earned a Ph.D. in Geography in 2018 and working for several years in human geography research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory before shifting careers. Her research interests include using popular culture to teach data science, inclusivity in data management education, and cultural geography. In her free time, she enjoys video games and hanging out with her dogs and cats.

Angelique van Rensburg Regional Consultant for Southern Africa, The Carpentries

Angelique, PhD (Educational Psychology), is the Regional Consultant for Southern Africa at The Carpentries Angelique aims at developing strategies and workflows to adapt The Carpentries' membership and workshop programs to function optimally in Southern Africa. In addition the role aims to assist and advise in developing a plan to create and support a strong team of volunteer instructors across the regions.

Sher! Hurt Deputy Director of Workshops and Meetings, The Carpentries

SherAaron (Sher!) Hurt is the Deputy Director of Workshops and Meetings for The Carpentries. In this role she oversees the logistics for over 600 international workshops held annually by The Carpentries and Community Members. In addition she is the Core Team Liaison for The CarpentryCon events. She earned her B.S. in Business Management at Michigan Technological University and M.A. degree in Hospitality Management at Florida International University. SherAaron enjoys applying Carpentries coding practices in her professional and personal pursuits. In her free time she enjoys traveling, exploring different cultures, loose leaf tea and kickboxing.

Kelly Barnes Deputy Director of Instructor Training, The Carpentries

I am a Social Psychologist by training, but have always viewed education through an interdisciplinary lens shaped heavily by my undergraduate, liberal arts education. I believe having the opportunity to learn leaves us with a responsibility to use that education to better the world. I am passionate about people and knowledge and in every role I take on, I strive to use information to improve people's lives. After my PhD, I moved into the public sector. I've worked in government for the past four years, most recently as a Senior Research and Statistics Advisor with the Ontario Ministry of the Solicitor General. I loved serving the public, but I'm a teacher at heart so I'm thrilled to be part of the education community again. I am currently the Deputy Director of Instructor Training for The Carpentries.

Serah Rono Director of Community Development and Engagement, The Carpentries

Serah Njambi Rono is a computer scientist and a writer. She has served as a technologist and Developer Advocate in the Open Data, Open Source, Open Science space for more than 6 years now, and has broad and valuable experience in listening to and shepherding communities, developing and implementing strategies for various technical projects, as well as for community building, outreach and the sustainability of existing, mature communities.
Serah is currently the Director of Community Development and Engagement at The Carpentries. She invests her time and energies to work that serves as a precursor to propelling change across communities in different domains, and believes that the work does not stop until all communities are at par in terms of access to resources and empowerment by information that open source initiatives make available. This is the measure by which she defines impact . Often, the outcome of her work has been a spark in community conversations, contributions and adoptions on different subjects, and pockets of knowledge transfer.

Emily A. Lescak Data Science Community Conference and Events Fund Program Manager , Code for Science and Society

Dr. Emily Lescak is the Data Science Community Conference and Events Fund Program Manager at Code for Science and Society, where she has developed a grants program to support events that promote inclusive practices and broaden participation in research-driven open data science communities. She has nearly 10 years of experience working in research data science focused on population genetics, evolution, and management of Alaskan fish populations. Emily has a strong background in mentoring and leadership in science advocacy initiatives.

Angela Li Spatial data science/education, GeoDa Center, University of Chicago, USA

I'm currently working as the R Spatial Advocate for the Center for Spatial Data Science at UChicago. Most recently, I did data science for transit at TransLoc and wrote a spatial econometrics thesis on the Detroit housing market. I am also Maintainer Community Lead for The Carpentries.

Stefanie Butland (she/her) Community Manager, rOpenSci, Canada

I have my dream job as the Community Manager for rOpenSci where I help build up the social and technical infrastructure for open and reproducible research software in R. I'm a biologist, former low-throughput bioinformatician, and compulsive people-connector and knowledge-sharer. My research life involved bacteria, plants, insects, and mammals, first at the bench and then on a laptop. I was one of the inaugural AAAS Community Engagement Fellows and am actively involved with the new Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement. My favourite word is 'welcome' and I love helping people recognize themselves - where they shine, and where they fit.

Kate Hertweck, Ph.D. Bioinformatics Training Manager, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Kate Hertweck is the bioinformatics training manager at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, where they develop and teach courses on reproducible computational methods as a part of fredhutch.io. Kate's graduate training at University of Missouri in genomic evolution of plants was followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) at Duke University, where they fell in love with R and began working exclusively in computational biology. Kate then spent four years as an assistant professor teaching bioinformatics, genomics, and plant taxonomy before transitioning to biomedical research training. Kate has been involved in The Carpentries, a non-profit organization that teaches reproducible computational methods, since 2014, serving as a leader in community governance since 2016. When not being an overenthusiastic instructor, Kate likes to spend their time doing fiber arts (knitting, crochet) and enjoying all things science fiction.

Angela Li Spatial data science/education, GeoDa Center, University of Chicago, USA

I'm currently working as the R Spatial Advocate for the Center for Spatial Data Science at UChicago. Most recently, I did data science for transit at TransLoc and wrote a spatial econometrics thesis on the Detroit housing market. I am also Maintainer Community Lead for The Carpentries.

Toby Hodges Curriculum Community Developer, The Carpentries

Toby has spent the last five years coordinating the EMBL Bio-IT community and will soon take up a new role as Curriculum Community Developer at The Carpentries. In this position, he will work with community members to facilitate the development of new Carpentries-style lessons. He enjoys teaching, meeting and connecting people, and collaboratively creating material that enables researchers to learn new skills.

Abigail Cabunoc Mayes AI Strategy Lead, Mozilla Foundation

Abigail Cabunoc Mayes (@abbycabs) leads Mozilla’s developer-focused trustworthy AI strategy around MozFest and open source. Previously, Abby founded and led Mozilla Open Leaders, a program that has worked with over 600 open projects globally. With a background in open source and community organizing, she is fueling a culture of openness in research and innovation. Prior to joining Mozilla, Abby worked as a bioinformatics software developer at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research and at Michigan State University where she applied open source to research problems. She has been named in '100 awesome women in open source' by source{d} and is a current and past member of a variety of committees and editorial boards including the Journal of Open Source Software, the Open Source Systems Conference, and the Mozilla Open Source Support Awards.

Marlene Mhangami Vice-chair and Director, Python Software Foundation

Marlene is the Vice-Chair and a director at the Python Software Foundation, the non-profit organization behind the popular computer programming language, Python. She is also the co-founder of ZimboPy, a Zimbabwean non-profit that empowers women to pursue careers in technology. She is based in Harare, Zimbabwe and is the current chair of Pycon Africa, the annual pan-African gathering of the Python community. Marlene is interested in seeing technology used for social good and to unite communities across borders globally. In her spare time, she gets particularly excited about building games to make learning more enjoyable and is currently pursuing a degree in computer science with the University of London.

Naomi Penfold Community Manager, eLife

Naomi is Community Manager at eLife, where she works with the eLife Early-Career Advisory Group, the eLife Community Ambassadors and the early-career researcher community at large. She is a 2019 alumnus of the CSCCE's Community Engagement Fellowship Program.

Serah Rono Director of Community Development and Engagement, The Carpentries

Serah Njambi Rono is a computer scientist and a writer. She has served as a technologist and Developer Advocate in the Open Data, Open Source, Open Science space for more than 6 years now, and has broad and valuable experience in listening to and shepherding communities, developing and implementing strategies for various technical projects, as well as for community building, outreach and the sustainability of existing, mature communities.
Serah is currently the Director of Community Development and Engagement at The Carpentries. She invests her time and energies to work that serves as a precursor to propelling change across communities in different domains, and believes that the work does not stop until all communities are at par in terms of access to resources and empowerment by information that open source initiatives make available. This is the measure by which she defines impact . Often, the outcome of her work has been a spark in community conversations, contributions and adoptions on different subjects, and pockets of knowledge transfer.

Neal E. Davis Teaching Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of Illinois, USA

Neal E. Davis is a Teaching Assistant Professor, Computer Science at the University of Illinois. Neal received his PhD in 2013 from the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois. His doctoral research involved the simulation of uranium surface chemistry using density functional theory and kinetic Monte Carlo modeling. He also studied chemical engineering and high-performance computing. Davis has worked with the Computational Science and Engineering program at the University of Illinois on developing, promoting, and teaching best practices for engineering and scientific software. He has also worked closely with Software Carpentry since 2013, teaching open science techniques, reproducibility, and task automation to domain researchers. At CS @ ILLINOIS, he continues to promote the communication of key software development concepts and technical best practices between the engineering and computer science communities.

Emmy Tsang Innovation Community Manager, eLife, UK

Emmy Tsang is the Innovation Community Manager at eLife, a non-profit organisation with the mission to accelerate research communication and discovery. She is responsible for the day-to-day running of the eLife Innovation Initiative, which supports the development of open-source tools, technologies and processes aimed at improving the discovery, sharing, consumption and evaluation of scientific research. She is passionate about building communities, fostering collaborations and developing technological solutions to make research more open, reproducible and user-friendly.

Konrad Förstner Data Services Librarian, ZB MED, Germany

I am a researcher in the field of in bioinformatics / computational biology / systems biology. My methodical focus is the integration and interpretation of large data sets - mainly generated using high-throughput sequencing technologies but also text corpora - with the aim to translate them into biological and medical insights. As part of that I am advocating open science with all its facets (data, publications, source code of research software, educational resources, publication metrics etc.) and am active in several groups/communities promoting this.

Hannah C. Gunderman Research Data Management Consultant, Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, USA

Hannah C. Gunderman is a Research Data Management Consultant with Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. She is relatively new to librarianship, having earned a Ph.D. in Geography in 2018 and working for several years in human geography research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory before shifting careers. Her research interests include using popular culture to teach data science, inclusivity in data management education, and cultural geography. In her free time, she enjoys video games and hanging out with her dogs and cats.

Angela Li Spatial data science/education, GeoDa Center, University of Chicago, USA

I'm currently working as the R Spatial Advocate for the Center for Spatial Data Science at UChicago. Most recently, I did data science for transit at TransLoc and wrote a spatial econometrics thesis on the Detroit housing market. I am also Maintainer Community Lead for The Carpentries.

Rabea Müller Library Science student, TH Köln -- University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Rabea is studying Library Science at the TH Köln -- University of Applied Sciences and is member of the Data Science and Services department of ZB MED. She is involved in several activites in the Carpentries community as an Instructor and Maintainer.

Emma Slayton Data Curation, Visualization, and GIS specialist, Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, USA

Emma Slayton serves as the Data Curation, Visualization, and GIS specialist at Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. She obtained an MPhil from the University of Oxford in 2013 and completed her Ph.D. at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University in 2018. Her current work centers around improving and supporting digital literacy efforts.

Sarah Young Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, USA

Sarah Young is a librarian at Carnegie Mellon University and where she supports teaching, research and library collections for Public Policy and Management, Decision Sciences, Statistics and Information Systems. Sarah is a member of the Libraries' Open Science, Data Collaboration and Research Data Services teams and is a trained Carpentries instructor. In addition, she provides evidence synthesis support and training to researchers around the world in global and public health, public policy, development and agriculture. She is currently helping to develop a new Library Carpentry lesson for R and a systematic review package called litsearchr. She holds an advanced degree in international development and earned her MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh in 2011.

Kristina Hettne Digital Scholarship Librarian, Leiden University Libraries, Netherlands

Kristina Hettne (1978), PhD, is a Digital Scholarship Librarian at the Centre for Digital Scholarship, Leiden University Libraries in Leiden, The Netherlands. She obtained her Masters in Computer Science from Skövde University in Sweden in 2003 and shortly thereafter joined the computational toxicology group at AstraZeneca R&D in Mölndal, Sweden as a research scientist. In 2006, she moved to the Netherlands to pursue her PhD degree in bioinformatics of toxicogenomics, which she obtained from the University of Maastricht in 2012. In 2011 she joined the BioSemantics group at the Leiden University Medical Center as postdoctoral researcher. From 2015 to 2018 she led the group’s research on knowledge discovery applications as a senior researcher. In October 2018 she joined the Centre for Digital Scholarship at the Leiden University Libraries as a Digital Scholarship Librarian, where she helps researchers navigate Open Science and shape the future of research data management. She is the Centre’s liaison with GO FAIR and part of the FAIR Convergence Matrix development team for optimiSing the reuse of existing FAIR-related resources. She is a review editor for “Frontiers in Big Data”, member of the Advisory Board of the Wiley journal “Advanced Genetics”, and co-author of more than 35 research publications.

Chris Erdmann Community Expert for NHLBI BioData Catalyst project, University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute, USA

Christopher Erdmann is an author, developer, and experimenter in the areas of digital libraries, social networking, library UX, interactive technologies, bibliometrics, and data services in libraries. He is currently an engagement, support, and training expert on the NHLBI BioData Catalyst project at University of North Carolina Renaissance Computing Institute. He has previously worked for organizations such as California Digital Library (Library Carpentry), North Carolina State University, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, European Southern Observatory, Supreme Court of the US, United Nations, University of Washington, Smithsonian, and CNET. Chris holds an MLIS from the University of Washington iSchool and a BA from the University of California, Davis.

Liz Stokes Senior Research Data Skills Specialist, Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), Australia

Liz Stokes is a Senior Research Data Skills Specialist at the Australian Research Data Commons. She runs data skills training and supports communities involved in research data management. Liz co-chairs the Library Carpentry Advisory Group with Ariel Deardorff, and is a recently badged Carpentries Instructor and Trainer. Liz is passionate about socialising better data management practices which enable reproducible research, for people who do the research and those providing support services.