Address, route & hotels

Address

Contact

GO FAIR Foundation &
Leiden Institute for FAIR and Equitable Science
Poortgebouw Noord
Rijnsburgerweg 10
2333 AA Leiden
The Netherlands

GO FAIR Foundation: info@gofair.foundation
LIFES: contact form

Route

The GO FAIR Foundation & LIFES (Leiden Institute for FAIR and Equitable Science) offices in Leiden are well located for travel from Schiphol Airport with frequent direct train connection to Leiden Centraal (15 – 20 min travel time). It is then 100 meters walk to the office from Leiden train station.

Take the North (Noord) entrance of the Poortgebouw building. Walk up the stairs to the 1st floor and turn left. Walk through the hallway till you see a short corridor at your right hand, there you will find the offices.

Parking

The office has parking space in front of the building that can be reached via the street Albinusdreef.

Hotels

There are numerous hotels in Leiden. For your convenience, we made a short list of hotels nearby the Poortgebouw.

Our Team

Bert Meerman

Director

bert@gofair.foundation

Bert is the director of the GO FAIR Foundation since its start in 2018. He is a senior business executive with a successful track record in finance, network, information and data technology. Bert has worked in a variety of management roles in different countries (The Netherlands, Far East/Hong Kong, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium).

Barend Mons

Scientific director

barend@gofair.foundation

Barend is molecular biologist by training, leading FAIR data specialist and corresponding author of the FAIR Principles paper. He is emeritus professor in biosemantics at the LUMC and the LACDR and is known for innovations in scholarly collaboration, especially nanopublications, knowledge graph-based discovery, and the FAIR data initiative.

Erik Flikkenschild

Deputy director

erikf@gofair.foundation

Erik is educated as an electronic engineer with a focus on deployment computer science and worked at the central IT department of the LUMC with a special attention to privacy and security participating in EU programs. From 2013 Information Manager with focus on Research innovation.

Erik Schultes

FAIR implementation lead

eriks@gofair.foundation

Erik is an evolutionary biologist. He is the FAIR Implementation Lead at GFF, Senior Researcher at LACDR, and Scientific Director at partners in FAIR. Erik is most known for his leadership role in the development of machine-actionable FAIR Implementation Profiles and scalable approaches to the creation of domain relevant, machine-actionable metadata.

Barbara Magagna

FAIR development coordinator

barbara@gofair.foundation

Barbara is FAIR Development and Fellowship Coordinator with a background in landscape ecology, GIS and semantics. She is trainer of the 3-Point FAIRification Framework, for which she developed core components. Within European projects (ENVRI, eLTER, PARC) she helps to FAIR assess data and services and to develop semantic frameworks (I-ADOPT).

Hana Pergl

CODATA liaison

hana@gofair.foundation

Hana has a background in business administration and management. She joined the CODATA Secretariat as Operations Manager in Dec 2019 and is supporting the strategic activities of the CODATA Executive Committee. In addition, she has also been managing operations of the GO FAIR International Support and Coordination Office since October 2018.

Jacintha Schultes

Management assistant

jacintha@gofair.foundation

Jacintha has over 20 years of experience managing data intensive initiatives within academic and commercial organizations, many of which were progenitors of FAIR. She offers support to the full GO FAIR Foundation team.