Open Science Speakers

Would you like to know more about Open Science? And are you looking for a speaker who can explain one of the aspects of Open Science, a panel member or someone who can lead an Open Science workshop? Or, would you like to contact a researcher who is willing to share his or her knowledge and experience of open working? If so, check this list.

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Note: the speaker list is being updated.

Bert Bakker
  • Institution: University of Amsterdam – Amsterdam School of Communication Research
  • Position: Associate Professor
  • E-mail address: b.n.bakker@uva.nl
  • Research discipline: communication science and political science
  • Languages: Dutch and English
  • I can present a talk on the following: preregistration; replication studies; introduction to Open Science; creating an open research culture in your lab/department
Christina Bergmann
  • Institution: Instelling: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
  • Position: Postdoc
  • E-mail address: chbergma@gmail.com
  • Research discipline: Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Science, Language Development, Meta-Science (Meta-Analyses, Reproducibility)
  • Languages: English and German
  • I can present a talk on the following: Introduction to Open Science, Preprints, Preregistration/Registered reports, Open analysis/open data, Open community-augmented/interactive datasets, Science communication, Large-scale open collaborations, Establishing field-specific best practices
Sander Bosch
  • Institution: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  • Position: Open Science Coordinator
  • E-mail address: s.e.bosch@vu.nl
  • Research discipline: Cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence
  • Languages: Dutch and English
  • I can present a talk on the following: Open Science, Research Data Management, FAIR, Data Management Plans, Open Access, Reproducible Research Workflow (with Python, R, git), Research Support, (Open Science) Communities, ORCID, Research Intelligence, Rewards & Assessment
Jeroen Bosman
  • Institution: Utrecht University
  • Position: scholarly communication specialist
  • E-mail address: j.bosman@uu.nl
  • Research discipline: scientometrics; geoscience
  • Languages: Dutch and English
  • I can present a talk on the following:OS basics, definition, history – OS workflows – OS tools – OS practices – OS policy – open access, esp. diamond open access – OA/OS monitoring – creative commons – copyright en Open Science – altmetrics – visibility – Unpaywall – ORCID – Zenodo – preprints
Antica Culina
  • Institution: Netherlands Institute of Ecology
  • Position: Honorary fellow
  • E-mail address: a.culina@nioo.knaw.nl
  • Research discipline: social networks, evolutionary ecology, demographic processes, meta-analysis, Open Science, open data, transparency
  • Language: English
  • I can present a talk on the following: Open Science, Open data, Data reuse, Transparent meta-analysis, Data management, Data standards,  Community involvement, in general and specifically for the fields of ecology and evolution
Maisam M. Dadkan
  • Institution: Utrecht University
  • Position: Research Data Management Advisor
  • E-mail address: m.mohammadidadkan@uu.nl
  • Research discipline: Faculty of Geo Science with a background in high-energy physics. Also, I have worked for European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) for 2.5 years
  • Language: English
  • I can present a talk on the following: Technical aspects related to RDM and Open Science, Infrastructure for Open Science, FAIR research data management, EOSC, Reproducible science, Open education
Alastair Dunning
  • Institution: TU Delft Library
  • Position: Head Research Services
  • E-mail address: a.c.dunning@tudelft.nl
  • Research discipline: Research Data
  • Language: Dutch
  • I can present a talk on the following: research data, business models, licencing, use and reuse, researcher workflow
Anita Eerland
  • Institution: Radboud University
  • Position: UD
  • E-mail address: anita.eerland@ru.nl 
  • Research discipline: Psycholinguistics
  • Languages: Dutch and English
  • I can present a talk on the following: replication, pre-registration, open access, open peer review
Marjet Elemans
  • Institution: TU/e
  • Position: Open access specialist
  • E-mail address: m.elemans@tue.nl
  • Research discipline: Currently affiliated to technical university. PhD in theoretical biology and postdoctoral experience in biomedicine
  • Languages: Dutch and English
  • I can present a talk on the following: Open access, policy analyses, practical implementation of Open Science
Sanli Faez
  • Institution: Utrecht University
  • Position: Assistant professor
  • E-mail address: s.faez@uu.nl
  • Research discipline: Physics
  • Languages: Dutch and English
  • I can present a talk on the following: Open Science policies, Utrecht University strategic plan, researchers’ view on Open Science practices, communicating about Open Science, The road to Open Science podcast @R2OSpodcast
Barbara Groot
  • Institution: Leyden Academy on Vitality and Ageing/LUMC
  • Position: Senior researcher
  • E-mail address: groot@leydenacademy.nl 
  • Research discipline: Participatory action research, Extreme Citizen Science, Cross-disciplinary collaborations, Arts & Health
  • Languages: Dutch and English
  • I can present a talk on the following: (Extreme) Citizen Science, Participatory Action Research (PAR), Ethics of Citizen Science, challenges in cross-disciplinary collaborations, civic participation, participation of people with low SES, Open Science communities’, Open Science Framework, Registered Reports en preprints
Wilco Hazeleger
  • Institution: Utrecht University
  • Position: Dean Faculty of Geosciences and Professor Climate System Science
  • Languages: Dutch and English
  • I can present a talk on the following: Digitalization and Open Science in general. Application to environmental sciences
Vera Heininga
  • Institution: University of Groningen
  • Position: Open Science program coordinator/leader, and interdisciplinary postdoctoral researcher
  • E-mail address: v.e.heininga@rug.nl
  • Research discipline: Behavioral and Social Sciences & Psychiatry
  • Languages: Dutch, Swiss German and English
  • I can present a talk on the following: Open Science, Open Access, FAIR/Open data, Public Engagement, Open Education, Open Science Communities, pre-registration, preprints, using open licenses, Rmarkdown (Open Workflow Tool), Multiverse analysis
Vincent van Hees
  • Institution: Netherlands eScience Center
  • Position: eScience Research Engineer
  • E-mail address: v.vanhees@esciencecenter.nl
  • Research discipline: Wearable sensors
  • Languages: Dutch and English
  • I can present a talk on the following: Open source software for the analysis of wearable movement sensor data, and in particular the success of my own software that has had an international impact in research on lifestyle and health
Stephan Heunis
  • Institution: Eindhoven University of Technology
  • Position: PhD candidate
  • E-mail address: j.s.heunis@tue.nl
  • Research discipline: Functional MRI signal processing methods, Engineering, Software
  • Language: English
  • I can present a talk on the following: Data sharing practices and tools for neuroimaging; GDPR and brain data; Software tools and practices for computational reproducibility (Python, Project Jupyter, git); Methods reproducibility; Supporting Open Science communities
Melanie Imming
  • Institution: Imming Impact/SURF
  • Position: Lead Line Engagement NPOS
  • E-mail address: melanie.imming@surf.nl
  • Research discipline: n.a.
  • Languages: Dutch and English
  • I can present a talk on the following: Open Science general, FAIR data, Open Science training, inclusiveness
Bianca Kramer
  • Institution: Sesame Open Science
  • Position: advisor/analyst/workshop facilitator
  • E-mail address: bianca@sesameopenscience.org
  • Research discipline: sciences, medicine, general
  • Languages: Dutch and English
  • I can present a talk on the following: open access (incl Plan S, diamond OA, OA monitoring), rewards & assessment, skills & training, (alt)metrics, open infrastructure, open metadata, preprints
Markus Konkol
  • Institution: University of Twente, Faculty of geo-information science and earth observation (ITC)
  • Position: Open Science Officer
  • E-mail address: m.konkol@utwente.nl 
  • Research discipline: Geosciences
  • Languages: English and German
  • I can present a talk on the following: Open Science (basics, definitions, etc.), Open reproducible research, Open code, Open data, Open Science communities, Interactive papers, Preprints, Preregistration, Open qualitative research, Citizen science, FAIR data, Open Science training, inclusiveness and diversity
Valentina Maccatrozzo
  • vInstitution: Netherlands eScience Center/VU University Amsterdam
  • Position: eScience Research Engineer/PhD candidate
  • E-mail address: v.maccatrozzo@vu.nl
  • Research discipline: Semantic Web, Recommender System, User Modeling
  • Language: English
  • I can present a talk on the following: Semantic modeling, FAIR data, Linked Data, Personalization techniques, Recommender systems, Filter Bubble, User modeling, Linked Data enrichment
Carlos Martinez-Ortiz
  • Institution: Netherlands eScience Center
  • Position: Scientific Community Managere
  • E-mail address: c.martinez@esciencecenter.nl
  • Research discipline: Computer Science
  • Language: English
  • I can present a talk on the following: Open science, scientific software development, open source software, FAIR, eScience.
Peder Mortvedt Isager
  • Institution: Eindhoven University of Technology
  • Position: PhD student
  • E-mail address: pederisager@gmail.com
  • Research discipline: meta-science within psychologymeta-science within psychology
  • Language: English
  • I can present a talk on the following:
    The Open Science framework, data format specifications, making your open data discoverable and usable by others, the Psychological Science Accelerator (open collaboration), the importance of open data for good meta-science to take place
Esther Plomp
  • Institution: TU Delft
  • Position: Data Steward
  • E-mail address: e.plomp@tudelft.nl
  • Research discipline: Bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, earth sciences, physical sciences
  • Languages: Dutch and English
  • I can present a talk on the following: Open Science, FAIR, Research Data Management, preprints, preregistration, registered reports, rewards & assessment, data sharing, Data Management Plans
Britta Ricker
  • Institution: Utrecht University
  • Position: FAIR software and data fellow
  • E-mail address: b.a.ricker@uu.nl
  • Research discipline: I am working in the GeoSciences department. My expertise is in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) particularly cartography and CyperGIS
  • Language: English
  • I can present a talk on the following: Governmental Open Data – Globally and locally, making maps using open data, the importance of the entire process of data collection, analysis and dissemination, the value of open data and what we can do with it
Daan Rutten
  • Institution: Tilburg University
  • Position: Open Science Coordinator
  • E-mail address: d.rutten@uvt.nl
  • Research discipline: Cultural Studies
  • Languages: Dutch and English
  • I can present a talk on the following: Open Science policy Tilburg University: Open Science Skills, Open Journals, Open Education & Open Books
Jeroen Sondervan
  • Institution: Utrecht University
  • Position: Open Access Publishing Consultant
  • E-mail address:  j.sondervan@uu.nl
  • Research discipline: Open Access publishing, humanities, media studies.
  • Languages: Dutch and English
  • I can present a talk on the following: Open Access; Open Science; OA books, open scholarship; publishing; scholarly communication
Hanno Spreeuw
  • Institution: Netherlands eScience Center
  • Position: Senior eScience Research Engineer
  • Research discipline: Astronomy
  • Languages: Dutch and English
  • I can present a talk on the following: Unlocking the LOFAR Long Term Archive
Ronald Stolk
  • Institution: Eindhoven University of Technology
  • Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
  • E-mail address: leotiokhin@gmail.com
  • Research discipline: Metascience, Evolution of Human Behavior
  • Language: English
  • I can present a talk on the following: Open Science Pre-Registration Registered Reports Formal Theoretical Modeling
Leo Tiokhin
  • Institution: Eindhoven University of Technology
  • Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
  • E-mail address: leotiokhin@gmail.com
  • Research discipline: Metascience, Evolution of Human Behavior
  • Language: English
  • I can present a talk on the following: Open Science Pre-Registration Registered Reports Formal Theoretical Modeling
Yasemin Turkyilmaz-van der Velden
  • Institution: TU Delft
  • Position: Data Steward
  • E-mail address: Y.Turkyilmaz-vanderVelden@tudelft.nl  
  • Research discipline: Molecular biology & genetics, microscopy, proteomics
  • Languages: English and Turkish
  • I can present a talk on the following: Data Stewardship, Research Data Management, Data Management Plans, Sharing/Publishing Research Outputs, GDPR & Personal Research Data, Electronic Lab Notebooks, Research Reproducibility, FAIR data, Open Science, Community Engagement
Joanquin Vanschoren
  • Institution: Eindhoven University of Technology
  • Position: Assistant Professor
  • E-mail address: j.vanschoren@tue.nl
  • Research discipline: Machine Learning
  • Languages: Dutch and English
  • I can present a talk on the following: OpenML (openml.org), an Open Science platform for machine learning
Coosje Veldkamp
  • Institution: Utrecht University
  • Position: : Project Manager
  • E-mail address: c.l.s.veldkamp@uu.nl
  • Research discipline: Developmental Psychology/Developmental Neuroscience/Open Science
  • Languages: Dutch and English
  • I can present a talk on the following: Practical issues with large scale data FAIRification, pros and cons of using existing (FAIR) data sets, sustainability of research, (Ensuring the quality of) preregistration
Martine de Vos
  • Institution: Utrecht University
  • Position: Coordinator Research Engineering team
  • E-mail address: m.g.devos@uu.nl
  • Research discipline: n.a. environmental science
  • Languages: Dutch and English
  • I can present a talk on the following: fair software, reproducible science, linked data, semantic web, ‘research engineering in practice’
Astrid van Wesenbeeck
  • Institution: National Library of the Netherlands (KB)
  • Position: Advisor Open Science
  • E-mail address: astrid.vanwesenbeeck@kb.nl
  • Research discipline: none
  • Languages: Dutch and English
  • I can present a talk on the following: Relevance of open access and Open Science for the wider (non-scientific) public, open access/science in general, citizen science
Wilma van Wezenbeek
  • Institution: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  • Position: directeur Student- en Onderwijszaken
  • E-mail address: w.van.wezenbeek@vu.nl
  • Research discipline: Open Science general
  • Languages: Dutch and English
  • I can present a talk on the following: Open Access (possibly), specifically library-related 
Egon Willighagen
  • Institution: Maastricht University
  • Position: Associate Professor
  • Research discipline: Chemistry and biology
  • Languages: Dutch and English
  • I can present a talk on the following: Open Data, Open Source, Open Standards, Open Access
Marion Wittenberg
  • Institution:  DANS
  • Position: Accountmanager EASY, service manager DataverseNL
  • E-mail address: marion.wittenberg@dans.knaw.nl
  • Research discipline: Research dataResearch data
  • Languages: Dutch and English
  • I can present a talk on the following: research data management, metadata, social sciences, dataverse
Miguel Xochicale
  • Institution: King’s College London 
  • Position: Research Associate
  • E-mail address: miguel.xochicale@kcl.ac.uk
  • Research discipline: Ultrasound Guided Procedures, Medical Imaging, Medical Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction; Nonlinear Dynamics; Deep Learning
  • Languages: English and Spanish
  • I can present a talk on the following: Open Science, open data, open source software and hardware

Felipe Zapata

  • Institution: Netherlands eScience Center
  • Position: Research software engineer
  • E-mail address:f.zapata@esciencecenter.nl
  • Research discipline: computational chemistry/materials science
  • Language: English
  • I can present a talk on the following: Python in science software development in science Workflows and pipelines for high performance computing Legacy code in science

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