OSIRIS Advisory Board

To best guarantee the quality and implementation of OSIRIS’s findings and output, we set out to involve all important stakeholders in the reproducibility field in our project. As a result, our AB consists of representatives of all important stakeholder groups (i.e, researchers, journals, funders, and policy). We gathered experts with expertise in open science, reproducibility, and data sharing. They will (1) provide advice on the planning and fine-tuning of the research methodology, in particular intervention trials, and interview/focus group discussion topics; (2) comment on results and findings; (3) provide expert advice for resulting publications and formulated recommendations, and (4) provide means to test and implement our interventions. The AB meets bi-annually with each other and annually with the project team (consortium meetings).

THE OSIRIS ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS

Lex Bouter is Professor Emeritus of Methodology and Integrity at the Department of Epidemiology and Data Science of the Amsterdam University Medical Centers and the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Humanities of the Vrije Universiteit. He is involved in research and teaching on research integrity and open science topics. He was appointed as a tenured Professor of Epidemiology in 1992 and served his university as its rector between 2006 and 2013. Professor Bouter has supervised 78 PhD students, of whom to date, 17 were appointed as professors. He is the founding chair of the World Conferences on Research Integrity Foundation.

Profile: https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/lex-bouter

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Sebastian Karcher is the Associate Director of the Qualitative Data Repository and Research Assistant Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University. His main interests are in research transparency, management and curation of qualitative data, and the interaction of technology and scholarship. He is an active contributor to several scholarly open source projects, including Zotero and the Citation Style Language, and has taught widely on digital technology and data management. Sebastian’s work has been published widely in social science journals such as International Studies Quarterly and Socio-Economic Review as well as information science journals such as Nature Scientific Data and Data Science Journal. His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the Sloan Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation. Sebastian advises the OSIRIS project on issues around transparency and reproducibility, especially as they pertain to qualitative research.

Main website: https://qdr.syr.edu

 

Maria Cruz obtained her MSc in engineering physics from Lisbon’s Instituto Superior Técnico and her PhD in astrophysics from the University of Oxford. After completing her doctoral studies, she gained experience in science policy at the UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology.  She then went on to play a key role in coordinating the development of the first ASTRONET Infrastructure Roadmap for European Astronomy.

Before moving to the Netherlands in 2015, Maria served as the astronomy and space science editor at Science Magazine for five years. Her diverse background includes roles in research data management at Delft University of Technology and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, before joining the Executive Board Office of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) in October 2019. At NWO, Maria assumed the position of senior policy adviser for open science, overseeing the coordination of NWO’s research data management policy, the launch of the NWO Open Science Fund, and the development of the NWO Persistent Identifier Strategy.

In January 2023, Maria transitioned from NWO’s Executive Board Office to become the programme leader for open research software at Open Science NL – a national funding program with an annual budget of 20M euro to accelerate the transition to open science in the Netherlands.

Her wealth of experience and leadership in the field underscores her strong commitment to advancing open science. Since March 2022, Maria has held the role of chair of the Science Europe Working Group on Open Science. She is a member of the OSIRIS Advisory Board since February 2023. She is an elected member the Council of the Research Data Alliance since April 2024.

Main website: https://www.nwo.nl/en/open-science

Department: https://www.openscience.nl/en

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Iain Hrynaszkiewicz is responsible for PLOS’s goals to increase the adoption of Open Science practices and to understand and increase the benefits of adopting Open Science. This includes but is not limited to PLOS’ policies and initiatives relating to posting preprints, sharing research data, sharing code, and sharing methods and protocols. Iain was previously Head of Data Publishing at Springer Nature and has worked in various roles at F1000 and BioMed Central (BMC). He has published numerous peer-reviewed papers and book chapters related to various aspects of Open Science.

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iainhz

 

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