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20 May 2020

Marcela Alfaro Córdoba, School of Statistics, University of Costa Rica (UCR)

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Assistant Professor of Statistics at the School of Statistics at the University of Costa Rica

Marcela Alfaro Córdoba is the Assistant Professor of Statistics at the School of Statistics at the University of Costa Rica (UCR).  She earned her PhD in Statistics from the North Carolina State University in 2017. UCR is the oldest and largest institution of higher learning in Costa Rica, and considered the most important research university in the country and Central America.

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23 Sep 2019

Jens Klump

Jens is the Geoscience Analytics Team Leader in the Mineral Resources unit of CSIRO. His research revolves around the application of machine learning and digital tools, such as mobile apps and cloud computing, for use in mineral exploration and other geology-related research domains. Jens studied geology and oceanography, before combining the two into paleo-oceanography in his PhD.

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24 Jun 2019

Peter Neish (University of Melbourne)

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Research data curator at the University of Melbourne

Peter works as the research data curator at the University of Melbourne where he helps researchers with data management and promote the benefits of open science. He joined RDA about 4 years ago and realised immediately that the work going on was extremely relevant and valuable - contributing to a global effort minimised duplication while increasing efficiencies. Peter has been a co-chair of the DMP Common Standards Working Group for the last 18 months and has been working with the co-chairs on modelling Data Management Plans (DMPs) to help make them machine actionable. The emphasis of DMPs in Australia is slightly different to Europe and the US, so it was important that this was taken into account when developing the DMP model and standards.

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30 May 2019

Carlo Maria Zwölf (EU - VADMC)

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Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC)

Carlo Maria Zwölf is part of the Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC), a consortium of institutes supported by the European Union (EU) that have agreed to build a common infrastructure for sharing atomic and molecular data. The consortium was launched in 2014, with Zwölf being elected director. Coordinating with the EU to address data citation challenges was one of the Centre’s initial objectives.

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17 Jan 2019

Sarah Jones, Digital Curation Centre

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Associate Director at the Digital Curation Centre (DCC)

Sarah is a familiar face at RDA, having attended 7 of the last 12 plenaries. The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) has been involved from the outset and was one of the first organisational members. Its focus is on building capability and skills for digital curation and research data management. As such, the RDA is a key vehicle for connecting with the wider international community and collaborating on shared solutions. DCC outputs such as the disciplinary metadata standards catalogue have acted as inputs to RDA work, and have been enriched and made sustainable via the international collaboration.  

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