Dr. Mark Hahnel
Digital Science VP Open Research and Founder of Figshare
Mark Hahnel is the VP Open Research at Digital Science. He is the founder of Figshare, which he created while completing his PhD in stem cell biology at Imperial College London. Figshare currently provides research data infrastructure for institutions, publishers and funders globally. He is passionate about open science and the potential it has to revolutionise the research community. Mark sits on the board of DataCite and the advisory board for Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). He was on the judging panel for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Wellcome Trust Open Science prize and acted as an advisor for the Springer Nature master classes.
Dr Tanita Casci
Director of the Research Strategy & Policy Unit at the University of Oxford, UK
Tanita is the Director of the Research Strategy & Policy Unit at the University of Oxford, UK. The Unit leads on institutional strategies and initiatives to further strengthen Oxford’s research and research environment.
From 2015–2021, Tanita was the Head of Research Policy at the University of Glasgow, where she was also institutional co-lead for research culture, co-lead of Lab for Academic Culture, and co-author of the university’s 5-year research strategy (2020–2025).
Previously, Tanita launched a Wellcome-funded facility for the analysis of ‘big data’ in biology, and for 12 years worked as a commissioning editor at Springer-Nature. She has a PhD in Genetics from the MRC-LMB/University of Cambridge, UK.
Lazarus Matizirofa
Associate Director: Research, Scholarly Communication & Digital Services, University of the Witwatersrand Libraries
Lazarus Matizirofa is an Associate Director: Research, Scholarly Communication & Digital Services at the University of the Witwatersrand Libraries. He is a board member of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), and a member of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) Next Generation Repositories Working Group. Lazarus was a member of the Technical Advisory Board of the African Open Science Platform (AOSP), 2017-8 and a Steering Committee member of the South African - European Union Open Science Dialogue 2017-8. At present, he is a member of the South African National CODATA Committee. Lazarus holds a master’s degree of Information Science (University of Cape Town, South Africa) and is currently pursuing his PhD study focusing on the development of an Open Science Framework at one of the leading, and globally competitive African universities.
Chair:
Jakob Feldfors Christensen
Jakob Feldtfos Christensen is the director of DIVERSIunity, an international consultancy based in Denmark dedicated to making diversity and internationalisation work in research and research management though tailormade workshops and consultancy aimed at researchers, project consortia, research managers, research funders etc. Jakob has previously worked within research management and internationalisation for almost ten years at Aarhus University. Building on this and his foundation from studying comparative religion he founded DIVERSIunity in 2020. He took part of the first cohort of the EARMA CRM, where he has since been an assessor and now teaches the module on gender and diversity. He has previously served at the DARMA board and is now active in ERION under EARMA. When not moonlighting as a consultant, he works as a research advisor at DEFACTUM, a public health research department, part of Central Denmark Region. With Lachlan Smith he co-hosts “The Diversity in Research Podcast” covering all things diversity and internationalisation and diversity in research and research management globally.
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