Pierre Vandergheynst

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Vice President for Education at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

Luc Henry

Scientific Advisor, EPFL, Switzerland

Luc Henry has perfected his research skills in Switzerland, Sweden, Germany and the United Kingdom, between 2002 and 2014. Over his scientific career, he gradually got involved in communication and policy. As a journalist and advisor, he later focused on the impact of new technologies on society, in particular in the fields of biotechnology and health. In 2014, Luc founded the community laboratory ‘Hackuarium’ in order to provide a space where like-minded people can meet and learn biology by doing, independently of their education and occupation. He currently advises the president of EPFL on research policy issues. Luc earned a DPhil (PhD) in chemical biology from the University of Oxford in 2012.

Jon Tennant

Rogue Palaeontologist, Interdisciplinary Research Center (CRI), Paris, France

Jon completed his PhD at Imperial College London where he researched evolutionary patterns in animals like dinosaurs and crocodiles. He was the Communications Director of ScienceOpen for 2 years, but has spent the last two years as an independent researcher. He is the founder of the Open Science MOOC, the digital publishing platform paleorXiv, and currently works as a PLOS Paleo Community Editor. He has spent much of his recent time challenging the business practices of the scholarly publishing industry, including working with Education International on a global campaign to democratise knowledge. He is also a Shuttleworth Flash grantee, and has also won an award for this work on peer review. As well as this, Jon was the lead author of the Foundations for Open Scholarship Strategy Development, is co-author for the Open Science Training Handbook, and is the Executive Editor for the OA journal Geoscience Communication. He has also written several kids books on dinosaurs.

Bruno Strasser

Professor, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Bruno Strasser is an expert on the history of the life sciences in the twentieth and twenty–first centuries. He his particularly interested in the history of "citizen science" and the transformation of public participation in science. His new book, “Collecting Experiments - Making Big Data Biology”, questions what knowledge is, how it is produced, to whom it belongs, and who can be credited for producing it. His first book, “La fabrique d’une nouvelle science: La biologie moléculaire à l’âge atomique, 1945-1964”, explores the emergence of molecular biology as new scientific discipline and professional identity in the atomic age. He has established and is leading an outreach lab, the Bioscope, at the University of Geneva.

Malvika Sharan

Computational Biologist, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany

Malvika is a computational biologist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany, where she coordinates the Bio-IT project, a community-driven platform for bioinformaticians. She organizes training activities and events for EMBL, de.NBI/ELIXIR Germany and other open source communities such as The Carpentries. She promotes Open Science and inclusiveness through her work as a community outreach coordinator.

Stephan Heunis

PhD candidate at the Electrical Engineering department of the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Stephan’s research focuses on developing new acquisition and signal processing methods for functional neuroimaging that allow the tracking and visualisation of distributed brain activity patterns in real-time, i.e. while someone is inside an MRI scanner, and applying this in clinical practice. Stephan is passionate about making research and scientific practice more transparent, rigorous and inclusive. He started the Open Science Community Eindhoven , which is part of a wide Dutch network of researchers and university employees that works on improving the way we do science, and he is the founder of OpenMR Benelux , a community working on wider adoption of open science principles in MRI research through talks, discussions, workshops and hackathons.

Luc Henry

Scientific Advisor, EPFL, Switzerland

Luc Henry has perfected his research skills in Switzerland, Sweden, Germany and the United Kingdom, between 2002 and 2014. Over his scientific career, he gradually got involved in communication and policy. As a journalist and advisor, he later focused on the impact of new technologies on society, in particular in the fields of biotechnology and health. In 2014, Luc founded the community laboratory ‘Hackuarium’ in order to provide a space where like-minded people can meet and learn biology by doing, independently of their education and occupation. He currently advises the president of EPFL on research policy issues. Luc earned a DPhil (PhD) in chemical biology from the University of Oxford in 2012.

Melanie Röthlisberger

Senior Research and Teaching Associate, English Department, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Melanie Röthlisberger is a Swiss linguist working at the University of Zurich. She received her PhD in 2018 from Leuven (Belgium) and has since then been involved in the Open Science movement. Her main interests include Open Access and compliance with funding requirements, possibilities to acquire funding to publish open access (especially with regard to the humanities), making data and code open (and FAIR) and changing the reward system.

Gilles Kratzer

PhD student in biostatistics, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

After working in clinical research for several years in different positions, Gilles decided to enhance his EPFL education in Physics by aquiring a Master degree in Biostatistics at the UZH. His PhD project is situated at the intersection of computational statistics, biostatistics and epidemiology. His goal is to provide reliable and ready-to-use software to the community in order to facilitate the analysis of epidemiological data using modern biostatistical methods with a high focus on observational data. Furthermore, he is the administrator of the statistical consulting service for the MNF of the UZH. As an Swiss National Science Fundation open access (OA) ambassador, he has the opportunity to promote OA beyond his direct research field. He strongly believe that reproducibility is a minimum requirement for good scientific research, and OA is a first step into this direction.

Béatrice Marselli

Librarian, EPFL Library

Béatrice has a background in chemistry. After her PhD, she worked as editorial assistant for academic journals at Stanford University and EPFL. She is now coordinating the Publishing Support team at EPFL Library that addresses all questions about publication, Open Access, and copyright.

Marc Robinson-Rechavi

Associate Professor of Bioinformatics, UNIL, and Group Leader, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Research in the group of Marc Robinson-Rechavi is mainly focused on linking the evolution of animal development to genome evolution. The group develops database for evolutionary biology, and studies genome evolution in vertebrates. The group is also involved in targeted projects in functional genomics.

Frédéric Schütz

Statistician, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland

Michel Jaccard

Lawyer, Associate at id est avocats, Lausanne, Switzerland

Michel is the founder of corporate and technology boutique firm id est avocats, Lausanne. He has been involved in the last 20 years in more than a hundred corporate finance and M&A deals in Switzerland and abroad, acting for entrepreneurs and owners, venture capital and private equity firms, industrial buyers and financial sponsors. Along his corporate expertise, he sits on several advisory boards and regularly helps C-level execs and board members of SMEs and global brands navigate the world of advanced technologies, distributed computing, open source and open access, data protection and cybersecurity, and more generally manage their online presence and digital transformation. Michel holds a JD and PhD from the University of Lausanne and an LLM from Columbia Law School (Stone Scholar, Fulbright grantee). He also maintains a blog on innovation and technology law and frequently acts as jury member or mentor in national and international startup competitions.

Fatma Deniz

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Berkeley, and Visiting Scientist, Technical University Berlin, Germany

Prior her current position, Fatma was a Moore-Sloan Data Science Fellow at Berkeley Institute for Data Science and a fellow at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley. She is interested in how sensory information is encoded in the brain and uses machine-learning approaches to fit computational models to large-scale brain data. Her current work focuses on cross-modal language representation in the human brain. She did her Ph.D. in Dr. John-Dylan Haynes’s laboratory at Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin, where she studied functional connectivity changes during conscious perception in humans. She got a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Computer Science from the Technical University Munich. During her master’s work Dr. Deniz worked with Dr. Christof Koch at Caltech, where she studied visual saliency and automated text detection. As an advocate of reproducible research practices, she is the editor of the book titled “The Practice of Reproducible Research”. In addition, she works on improving Internet security applications using the knowledge gained from cognitive neuroscience and Mooney images (mooneyauth.org). Her work is at the intersection between computer science, human cognition, and neuroscience. She is a passionate coder, baker, and loves to play the cello.

Charlotte Mazel-Cabasse

Executive Director of the Digital Humanities Center, UNIL-EPFL, Switzerland

Prior to taking her current position, she was an ethnographer at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), an organization funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation at the University of California - Berkeley. In this position, she was studying how practices and methods of data science transform knowledge production and interdisciplinary collaboration in academia.

Mathilde Panes

Information Specialist, EPFL Library Teaching Team Coordinator

Mathilde Panes is an Information Specialist with a Master of Business Administration. After working as a research assistant and a system librarian, she joined the EPFL Library as a teaching librarian. She is the coordinator of the Library Teaching Team, whose goal is to develop skills related to information literacy and digital literacy among the EPFL community.

Béatrice Marselli

Librarian, EPFL Library

Béatrice has a background in chemistry. After her PhD, she worked as editorial assistant for academic journals at Stanford University and EPFL. She is now coordinating the Publishing Support team at EPFL Library that addresses all questions about publication, Open Access, and copyright.

Francesco Varrato

Research Data Team, EPFL Library

Francesco earned a PhD in Computational Physics from EFPL, with teaching and start-ups experience. Since 2018 part of the EPFL Research Data Library Team, also co-training to Research Data Management best practice. Francesco has a particular interest in complex systems, electronic devices, AI and ML for public services.

Galina Limorenko

PhD candidate in the School of Life Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland

Galina is investigating molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration using novel biochemical and biophysical methods. She has a degree in Genetics from Cardiff University, UK, and gained laboratory experiences in UK, Switzerland and Sweden. Galina is interested in bringing the methods for large data analysis into the field of experimental molecular science. She is an eLife Ambassador and is committed to advocating and promoting the open science culture.

Francesco Varrato

Research Data Team, EPFL Library

Francesco earned a PhD in Computational Physics from EFPL, with teaching and start-ups experience. Since 2018 part of the EPFL Research Data Library Team, also co-training to Research Data Management best practice. Francesco has a particular interest in complex systems, electronic devices, AI and ML for public services.

Stefano Vianello

PhD candidate in the School of Life Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland

Stefano's research focuses on the use of in vitro embryonic models to understand how mechanics and geometry instruct the development of implanting species such as mouse and human. Alongside his research, Stefano writes for preLights, a pre-print highlight service run by the Company of Biologists. Prelighters are early career researchers selecting and highlighting preprints of interest from the hundreds `that are published online every month. PreLights put the research into context, highlight the main points of relevance, and allow the preprint authors to provide additional information about the work they have published.

Stephan Heunis

PhD candidate at the Electrical Engineering department of the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Stephan’s research focuses on developing new acquisition and signal processing methods for functional neuroimaging that allow the tracking and visualisation of distributed brain activity patterns in real-time, i.e. while someone is inside an MRI scanner, and applying this in clinical practice. Stephan is passionate about making research and scientific practice more transparent, rigorous and inclusive. He started the Open Science Community Eindhoven , which is part of a wide Dutch network of researchers and university employees that works on improving the way we do science, and he is the founder of OpenMR Benelux , a community working on wider adoption of open science principles in MRI research through talks, discussions, workshops and hackathons.

Anita Bröllochs

Head of Outreach, Protocols.io, USA

Anita Bröllochs is working closely with the scientific community to help make research more reproducible. She has a strong passion for open access and tools that help accelerate scientific discoveries. Anita studied Life Science Engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Her background is in optical clearing of skeletal muscle tissue for multi-photon microscopy.

Arnout Devos

PhD Student in Computer Science

Arnout is doing a PhD in Computer Science (CS) at EPFL, supported by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship. His research focuses on increasing the versatility of machine learning systems, mainly to learn with very small data. Previously, he did machine learning research at Stanford University, and obtained a Master’s in CS at the University of Southern California (BAEF fellow), and a Bachelor’s in EECS at KU Leuven.

Pierre Salvy

PhD Student in Chemical Engineering

I have been working in the field of computational biology for almost 5 years now, both in the industry and in academia, the latter as a PhD student. As you probably already guessed, computational biology involves computers and science, and computers in science often involve code. I have worked with people from different fields, with different sensibilities to the problem of code, open science, and open source. Hopefully, telling you about my stories will give you some ideas to deal with the hardships of promoting open science, and make you turn an optimistic eye to the future.

Sharada Mohanty

CEO and Co-founder, AICrowd

Sharada Mohanty is the CEO and Co-founder of AICrowd, an opensource platform encouraging reproducible artificial intelligence research. He was the co-organizer of many large-scale machine learning competitions, such as NeurIPS 2017:Learning to Run Challenge, NeurIPS 2018: AI for Prosthetics Challenge, NeurIPS 2018:Adversarial Vision Challenge, and the 2018 MarLO Challenge. During his Ph.D. at EPFL, he worked on numerous problems at the intersection of AI and health, with a strong inter-est in reinforcement learning. In his current role, he focuses on building better engineering tools for AI researchers and making research in AI accessible to a larger community of engineers.

Susan Cheatham

Data Science Consultant

Susan has a PhD in particle physics from CERN, with six years postdoctoral experience analysing data. She has worked as a Physics and Outdoor Activities teacher in UK secondary schools. Her experiences also includes working in industry, with companies such as Price Waterhouse, GEC and the Australian Broadcasting Company. She is currently working as a data science consultant, applying technical and communication skills to real world data. In her free time, Sue enjoys road biking, VTT and ski randonnée.

Maximilian Strauss

Postdoctoral Researcher, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München and Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany

Maximilian is a mechanical engineer with specialization in medical technology / biomedical engineering with a research doctorate in physics. Being fascinated by the question of What is Life? he decided to dive into Biophysics to understand the physical aspects of the building blocks of life. To study these objects, he built microscopes and employed super-resolution microscopy techniques. During his research, he noticed the increasing demand for computational methods to gather meaningful data and was amazed to explore the state of the art of Machine Learning and the Open Source community. Having now found a great workhorse in Python he is eager to apply cutting-edge algorithms and statistical methods to bring meaningful insight into data and optimize technology. He is currently working at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in the group of Matthias Mann.

Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan

Senior Computer Scientist, Swiss Data Science Center

Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan studied mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley (B.A. 1997) and art and computer science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (M.A. 2003). He has worked as a software developer and data-science consultant for companies, research institutions, and NGOs in the US, Germany, and Switzerland. Since 2009, he has been at ETH Zürich supporting projects by developing software solutions for data management, analysis, and visualization.

Eliane Blumer

Research Data Team, EPFL Library

Eliane is an information system and data management expert with over 10 years of experience in various higher education institutions and their respective IT or scientific information departments. Since 2017, Eliane works as a research data management coordinator at EPFL Library and promotes together data management support, training and projects for the EPFL research community with a dedicated team.

Antoine Masson

Research Data Team, EPFL Library

After earning a Ph.D. in physics in 2011, Antoine did two postdocs at EPFL in Switzerland from 2011 to 2015 and another one at LBNL in the United-States from 2015 to 2017. During those years, he developed different scientific types of equipment that combined mass spectrometry with imaging, spectroscopy and molecular analysis. Since 2018, he is now part of the Research Data Team at EPFL Library. His main missions are the development of tools and workshops for researchers about for example code preservation and publication or data life cycle.

Sitthida Samath

Metadata Specialist, EPFL Library

Sitthida has spent 11 years doing research support for the social sciences and humanities. Sitthida joined EPFL Library in 2018 as metadata specialist, also providing training on documentation and metadata for source code and software.

Sina Rüeger

Postdoctoral Researcher, EPFL, Switzerland

In her research, Sina Rüeger analyses human genomic data in the context of infectious diseases. Her interests include statistical modelling, programming with R, and topics intersecting health, medicine and technology. First introduced to the statistical programming language during her bachelor’s degree, Sina has been using R since then on a daily basis. She is particularly interested in reproducible analysis workflows, data visualisation and making R accessible to newcomers. Sina is also a founding member of the R-Ladies chapter in Lausanne, an organisation that promotes gender diversity in the R community.

Allison Burns

Doctoral student, EPFL, Switzerland

In her current research, Allison uses molecular biology and next generation sequencing techniques in order to study the role that genetic and epigenetic mechanisms play in the complex processes of learning and memory formation. She has a master’s degree in bioinformatics from the University of Oregon and spent 4 years working as a bioinformatician at the Stowers Research Institute in Kansas City, MO, focused on RNA biology. Although she did not initially consider herself a “computer person”, Allison has grown competent in the use of the statistical language, R, and enjoys helping and encouraging others to use the language. Next to her research she is a member of the R-Ladies chapter in Lausanne and the Webmaster for the ADSV PhD student association.

Benjamin Stecher

Industry and Academic Patient Consultant & Open Science Advocate

Ben was born in Nairobi, Kenya as an Israeli to Jewish parents from Poland but grew up just outside Toronto, Canada. He studied history and philosophy at the University of Guelph, but as soon as he got his BA went to live and work as a teacher in South Korea for nearly three years while traveling the world. He moved to Shanghai, China at 26, spending one year at Jiao Tong University in a Chinese language program before being hired by Chinese education company, San Li. He rose quickly to become a managing partner where his duties included: overseeing operations at branches throughout South East China, developing curriculum, teacher training, parent relations, while teaching SAT and world history classes. Ben was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease at 29. He left China at 32 to learn how to better manage this disease and see what future therapies were on the horizon. He is now a prolific author and is actively involved in PD research advocacy. He is the founder of Tomorrow Edition (tmrwedition.com), co-founder of the Parkinson's Research Advocacy Group (prag.site), and patient advisor to the World Parkinson's Congress.

Galina Limorenko

PhD candidate in the School of Life Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland

Galina is investigating molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration using novel biochemical and biophysical methods. She has a degree in Genetics from Cardiff University, UK, and gained laboratory experiences in UK, Switzerland and Sweden. Galina is interested in bringing the methods for large data analysis into the field of experimental molecular science. She is an eLife Ambassador and is committed to advocating and promoting the open science culture.

Alberto Antonietti

Postdoctoral research fellow, NeuroEngineering And medical Robotics Laboratory, Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano

Alberto Antonietti got his Ph.D. in Bioengineering in May 2018, working at the Neuroengineering and Medical Robotics Laboratory of Politecnico di Milano, Italy. During his Ph.D., he has worked on computational neuroscience topics related to motor learning, in particular on the cerebellum. Now, he is working as a Postdoctoral research fellow, with interests not limited to computational neuroscience topics. He has been active in scientific communities of neuroinformatics and bioengineering, with a keen interest in promoting Open Science and Open Data.

Wenzel Jakob

Professor at the School of Computer and Communication Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland

Wenzel is an assistant professor leading the Realistic Graphics Lab at EPFL's School of Computer and Communication Sciences. His research mostly revolves around light transport simulations and material appearance models. The overarching goal of this work is to improve the accuracy and fidelity of light transport simulations in computer graphics, and to make the underlying models accurate and fast enough for predictive design and manufacturing applications.

Adrien Ball

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, SNIPS, Paris, France

Adrien is a software engineer and machine learning specialist. He has been working at Snips for the past 4 years where his recent focus has been on building the Natural Language Understanding (NLU) component powering the Snips Voice Assistant Technology. Adrien is a Python and Rust enthusiast and strongly believes in open source software development. Most of his contributions at Snips in the field of NLU are open source and publicly available on Github. He is an engineer from Ecole Polytechnique, and holds a MSc in Probabilities from Université Pierre & Marie Curie in Paris.

Rachael Ainsworth

Radio Astronomer, University of Manchester, UK

Rachael is a Research Associate in Radio Astronomy and Open Science Champion at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester. She is passionate about openness, transparency, reproducibility and inclusion in research. She is also a Software Sustainability Institute Fellow, FOSTER certified Open Science Trainer, Mozilla Open Leader, member of The Turing Way community, organiser for the women in data meetup group HER+Data MCR and member of the first cohort of Tech Future Female Leaders.

Tim Head

Software Developer, Wild Tree Tech and Skribble

Tim is one of the founders of Project Binder, an open project that builds the tools and community needed to provide a free service that lets anyone run other people's code in the cloud, for free and without any setup hassle. As his day job he works as a software engineer for Skribble, a Zurich based company aiming to replace hand-written signatures in high trust transactions. Tim trained as an experimental physicist and worked at CERN and EPFL for several years.

Tim Head

Software Developer, Wild Tree Tech and Skribble

Tim is one of the founders of Project Binder, an open project that builds the tools and community needed to provide a free service that lets anyone run other people's code in the cloud, for free and without any setup hassle. As his day job he works as a software engineer for Skribble, a Zurich based company aiming to replace hand-written signatures in high trust transactions. Tim trained as an experimental physicist and worked at CERN and EPFL for several years.

Alberto Antonietti

Postdoctoral research fellow, NeuroEngineering And medical Robotics Laboratory, Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano

Alberto Antonietti got his Ph.D. in Bioengineering in May 2018, working at the Neuroengineering and Medical Robotics Laboratory of Politecnico di Milano, Italy. During his Ph.D., he has worked on computational neuroscience topics related to motor learning, in particular on the cerebellum. Now, he is working as a Postdoctoral research fellow, with interests not limited to computational neuroscience topics. He has been active in scientific communities of neuroinformatics and bioengineering, with a keen interest in promoting Open Science and Open Data.

Lilly Winfree

Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN)

Lilly is the product manager for the Frictionless Data for Reproducible Research project. 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. Lilly believes that the future of research is open, and is using Frictionless Data tooling within the researcher community to make science more reproducible. In her free time, you can find Lilly running, hanging out with her dogs, or reading sci-fi.

Luc Henry

Scientific Advisor, EPFL, Switzerland

Luc Henry has perfected his research skills in Switzerland, Sweden, Germany and the United Kingdom, between 2002 and 2014. Over his scientific career, he gradually got involved in communication and policy. As a journalist and advisor, he later focused on the impact of new technologies on society, in particular in the fields of biotechnology and health. In 2014, Luc founded the community laboratory ‘Hackuarium’ in order to provide a space where like-minded people can meet and learn biology by doing, independently of their education and occupation. He currently advises the president of EPFL on research policy issues. Luc earned a DPhil (PhD) in chemical biology from the University of Oxford in 2012.

Anne Claire Fouilloux

Senior Engineer, Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo