Contributors

Pinar Alper

Pinar is Principal Data Steward at the Luxembourg National Data Service, where she leads data‑management and stewardship services supporting the responsible reuse of public‑sector and research data. She also contributes to ELIXIR Luxembourg’s research data‑management support operations, and node management. Pinar is a former RDMkit editorial board member and now serves on the Advisory Board of the Data Stewardship Wizard.

Alexander Bardel

Alexander is Data Steward and RDM Officer in the RDM team at Graz University of Technology. His responsibilities include data stewardship (consulting, training, policy development, etc.) and project management support for Shared RDM Services & Infrastructure project. His main focus is the development of training and introductory material on RDM topics and tools, especially an electronic lab notebook called eLabFTW. He has a Dipl.-Ing. (MSc) in Technical Physics from Graz University of Technology.

Katarzyna Biernacka

Katarzyna is founder and lead trainer at Research Training & Innovation Studio (RTI Studio), where she designs and delivers international workshops and train-the-trainer programmes on research data management, open science, and research integrity. She holds a PhD in Computer Science and has over 13 years of experience in higher education, digital learning, and capacity building. Her work focuses on empowering researchers and research support staff to develop sustainable, FAIR-aligned data practices and to design interactive training formats. She previously worked for several years as a data steward at institutions including TU Berlin and DFKI, supporting research data management and training initiatives.

Arzuv Čaryjeva

Arzuv is a Data Steward at the Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, supporting researchers in research data management and Open Science practices. With a background as a researcher in molecular biology, she brings first-hand experience of the full research lifecycle, from data generation to publication. She is involved in large collaborative projects, advising on responsible data handling, long-term preservation, and reuse, and enjoys translating complex requirements into practical, researcher-friendly solutions.

Dagmar Hanzlíková

Dagmar is the head of the Open Science Support Centre at Charles University in Prague. Her main focus is on research data management and data sharing but she is also interested in other aspects of open science. Besides providing direct support for researchers, she is also actively involved in preparing the university environment for the new requirements related to open science. Dagmar participates in several national and international working groups focusing on open science and research data management. An expert on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien in training.

Ilire Hasani-Mavriqi

Ilire leads the RDM Team and the digital transformation of research at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz). She holds a PhD in Computer Science from TU Graz and has extensive experience in leading the development of collaborative and Open Science tools and services at both institutional and national levels. She is the coordinator of the BMFWF-funded projects FAIR Data Austria and Shared RDM Services & Infrastructure and serves as Speaker of the General Assembly of the Austrian EOSC Mandated Organisation. Her research interests include Research Data Management, Open Science, Computational Social Science and Agent-Based Modelling.

Patrick Helling

Patrick is coordinator of the Data Center for the Humanities (DCH) at the University of Cologne, a domain-specific research data management institution for the Arts and Humanities. He holds a PhD in Digital Humanities. For his dissertation project, he developed a formal description model for RDM requirements, measures, competencies and solutions. His current research focuses on developing strategies for the sustainable hosting of dynamic research resources, as well as on examining the role and practical effectiveness of data management plans. Patrick has long-standing and substantial expertise in research data management, particularly within the Arts and Humanities. He is member of several consortia of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) in Germany, coordinator of the RDM-network GO UNITE! and Data Steward of the Digital Humanities association in the German-speaking areas.

Matyáš Hiřman

Matyáš is a data steward at Open Science Support Center of Charles University, focusing on research data management in STEM fields. He studied zoology with a background in evolutionary biology. He is the founder of the Czech Data Stewards Community, which connects professionals across institutions to share experience, develop best practices, and collaboratively improve data management services. His work centers on supporting researchers, guiding them through the often shadowy realms of datasets and metadata, where even the smallest file may carry unexpected power.

Svitlana Kalitsun

Svitlana Kalitsun is a Senior Trainer at The Negotiation Academy LLC. With a background as a lawyer, Svitlana integrates over 15 years of practical experience and countless high-stakes negotiations into her communication within academic environments. She trains academic staff at the University of Vienna, WU Vienna, JKU Linz, and the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine.

Svitlana often acts as a judge in international competitions. Since 2016 she has been actively involved in the start-up scene in Vienna and Berlin as a mentor, and a judge. She is also a recognized ISOcertified coach, author, and Forbes contributor.
 

Bruna Piereck Moura

Bruna Piereck is a bioinformatics trainer at VIB and ELIXIR-BE training coordinator deputy Since March 2022. With a Master and PhD degree in Molecular Genetics - Bioinformatics from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, in 2019. During her PhD, she had the chance to collaborate with the university of Luxembourg and the McGill university in Quebec Canada for a short time. Ever since she has been involved with teaching  and when she joined VIB with the mission of teaching and assist other trainers she developed and delivered training in RDM and Reproducible data analysis among others.

Barbara Sánchez Solís

Barbara is Head of the Center for Research Data Management at TU Wien. The Center provides data stewardship and open science support for researchers, as well as data infrastructures and automated DMP services. As a strong communicator of technology to non-technical audiences, she contributes to BMFWF-funded digitalisation projects and collaborates closely with research institutions across Austria. At the European level, she supports initiatives related to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). She also serves as the national contact point for the GO FAIR Office Austria and is a member of the CLARIAH-AT Advisory Board.

Marcus Schmidt

Marcus is the Coordinator of the FAIRagro Helpdesk as part of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) in Müncheberg, Germany. His background is in geography, forest ecology and agroforestry where he was especially interested in data analysis. Marcus has coordinated the BonaRes Repository and knows data management from the wide-ranging perspectives of users, infrastructure providers and RDM consultants. He teaches FAIR data management at Potsdam University of Applied Sciences and continues his own education by pursuing a second degree in IT security at Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences.

Birgit Söser

Birgit is a project manager at Graz University of Technology. She worked in the national project "Shared RDM Services & Infrastructure" and in the EOSC Support Office Austria Secretariat. She has a background in social science, she studied Sociology, Global Studies and Computational Social Systems. Birgit has experience in qualitative and quantitative research and is enthusiastic about statistics and data analysis. Currently is working as a Data Steward on the "Soil Data Classification" project at Graz University of Technology.

Barbara Strasser-Kirchweger

Barbara is a Data Steward at the Austrian NeuroCloud (ANC). The ANC is a domain-specific, FAIR-enabling repository for neuroscience research data hosted at the University of Salzburg. Barbara is responsible for curating datasets to maintain their FAIRness beyond deposition. With a Master’s degree in psychology and hands-on research experience, she works at the intersection of research practice, data management, and open science. Barbara focuses on translating complex standards into pragmatic, everyday solutions for research teams. Her interests include sustainable data infrastructures, responsible data sharing, and improving collaboration between technical and domain experts.

Özgün Ünver

Özgün is a Data Steward at Vrije Universiteit Brussel supporting researchers in Social Sciences and Humanities. She is also a certified stress and burnout coach who has worked primarily with researchers. As a former researcher, she understands the challenges researchers face. So she tries to be as solution-oriented and practical as possible to make Research Data Management easier for researchers. With a strong interest in psychosocial wellbeing in the workplace and a passion, she strives for normalising mental health-related conversations at work.