Fellows Programme

Erik is the first member of the GO FAIR Foundation Fellows Programme. His areas of interest include Persistent Identifiers, implementation of the Red Principles, helping keep GO FAIR Foundation up to date with emerging technology.

Juliana is an ecologist working on biodiversity distribution and supporting the implementation of the FAIR Principles on biodiversity monitoring data and metadata.

Robin has 25 years of experience unlocking the value hidden in data. His work has helped UK police forces meet statutory reporting requirements, financial services firms transact online with business partners, publishers streamline production and achieve greater reuse of assets.

David is the Senior Manager of the Research Analysis team at CCC. He has held roles in metadata research related to publishing as well as building bibliographic systems supporting the transformation, normalization and processing of bibliographic data.

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).

Parul is a data steward and is working towards helping researchers, scientists and especially infrastructures to make data FAIR. Her interest lies in metadata curation. 

Rick has a BSc in bioinformatics on sequencing and rare disease. He has gained experience in enterprise architecture, machine learning and pharmacogenetics. He co-founded 4MedBox to facilitate personal ownership of data and being able to provide services on that data. 

Sander has a background in bioinformatics. He worked for some time in automation for biomedical organisations before starting infrastructure companies active in decentralized personalized medicine. 

Margreet implements FAIR data practices at ZonMw, the Dutch public health research funder. Funders can drive (require from) researchers to FAIRify data. Together with the GO FAIR Foundation and Health-RI, Margreet co-developed domain-specific data FAIRification in COVID-19 research. 

Louis is a researcher and program director in information projects, ICT aspects and publishing. Understanding the user and what change can bring them. Working on the patient as a FAIR digital object is our challenge to come.

Elianne is a recent Social Sciences graduated from Minerva University currently working with DeSci Labs. She is interested in contributing to FAIR by understanding how to provide tooling to researchers which facilitates their focus on research.

Marin has a background in neurosciences. She started working at Health~Holland in Oktober '22 as an analyst. She became acquainted with FAIR data and started working on the implementation of FAIR data within Health~Holland in collaboration with other funders in the Netherlands.

Alessa is a Data Steward at the Faculty of Science at Leiden University, where she helps develop RDM policy and education, advises researchers on RDM best practices, and stimulates FAIR awareness and implementation within the Faculty. She holds a PhD in Analytical Chemistry. 

Kristina is a Librarian at the Leiden University Libraries' Centre for Digital Scholarship. She helps researchers navigate Open Science and shape its future as well that of FAIR research data management. She holds a PhD in Bioinformatics and MSc in Computer Science. 

Luana Sales is a Brazilian professor of Information Science. She began her professional career working as a data librarian in the Nuclear area. As an academic, her research focuses on Knowledge Organizations Systems (SKOS), metadata and semantic networks. She currently leads the GO FAIR Brazil Office.

Maryam is an exposure scientist specializing in human health risk assessment. She is committed to implementing FAIR principles in the human biomonitoring research pipeline to enhance the quality, accessibility, and reusability of scientific data for risk assessment and regulatory compliance.

Elham specializes in AI-driven metabolomics data interpretation and is exploring FAIR implementation. She is skilled in data analysis and R programming. Her PhD research focused on N-glycan biomarkers.

Max is working on a PhD that focuses on developing AI models to improve metabolite identification from mass spectrometry data. He is specialized in bioinformatics and systems biology, combined with wide programming experience, especially Python.

Lorenzo is a Research Engineer working in sea surface current monitoring by High Frequency Radar (HFR) systems, and in oceanographic data management. He is chair of the EuroGOOS HFR Task Team and technical coordinator of the European HFR Node.

Mauro is a Research Infrastructure Manager. He oversees operations, resource planning and user access. He is involved in data stewardship, coordinates training  programmes in industrial biotechnology, and leads  communication activities in several EU and national  projects.

Milena is Biomedical Electronics Engineer turned Neuroscientist with specialisation in General Physiology and Biophysics; her research focus is on physiological complexity applications in neurology and precision psychiatry, and FAIRification of Digital Health data.

Hajar is a clinical data scientist working on FAIR data implementation in health research. She is developing ontology-mapped, machine-readable codebooks to improve interoperability and long-term usability of biomedical data.

Inkyung is Ass. Prof. of Library & Information Science at SKKU, South Korea, and ex-OCLC Research Scientist. Research in AI-driven metadata and knowledge organization. Developed mechanisms for tracking classification changes, linking vocabularies, and enriching library data with AI.

Sungha is a PhD student in Information Studies at the
University of Maryland, where her research focuses on
improving how people are informed in health contexts.
She has also worked as a data systems analyst at various organizations, including GO FAIR US.

Azizi is a Research Officer in Universiti Malaya and a Data Steward for the Universiti Malaya Open Science initiative. His interest lies in supporting researchers to implement FAIR data practices through training, data management guidance, and practical workflows that improve the accessibility, reusability, and policy relevance of research data.

Tomasz is a PhD candidate at Newcastle University’s  Population Health Sciences Institute, developing reporting  standards for digital evidence synthesis interfaces such as  evidence portals and EGMs, with a focus on transparency– usability trade-offs for humans and machines.

Karen is a Senior Officer at the Faculty of Dentistry and a Data Steward for the Universiti Malaya Open Science initiative. With 15+ years in cancer biobanking, she advances open science through responsible data sharing, balancing innovation with patient trust, privacy and ethics. She holds a PhD in Oral Oncology.

Georgia is a STEM data steward for the Czech National Repository Platform at FIT CTU Prague. She is part of the Data Stewardship support in UCT Prague. She serves as international coordinator for the Czech Data Stewards Community, where she has also founded its STEM subcommunity.

Sruthi is an Executive Team Member and Lead, Communications and Impact at Asia Science Mission. She has been working in the field of research for close to a decade across multiple environmental projects over time, some of which include: preparing the environment report card for Bengaluru, working on the draft climate action plan for the state of Karnataka and for the city of
Bangalore, projects related to carbon sequestration potential, solid waste management, water quality, air quality etc.

Dr. Ram Avtar is an Associate Professor at Hokkaido
University (Faculty of Environmental Earth Science) and
Director of the Global Land Programme (GLP) Japan Nodal Office. He serves in the Asia Science Mission (ASM)
Coordination Unit as a member of the Task Force on
Knowledge Infrastructure & Data.