Champions Archive

Prof. Tuuli Toivonen
Associate professor and leader of the Digital Geography Lab
University of Helsinki, Department of Geosciences and Geography, Digital Geography Lab
Finland
“A change in research culture is needed to make sharing data a default rather than an exception”

Ari Asmi
Research project co-ordinator
University of Helsinki and ICOS ERIC infrastructure
Finland
“Openness is everything, and its importance is increasing”

Gustav Nilsonne
Researcher
Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University
Sweden
“Data is the foundation on which we scientists base our claims and inferences about the world”

Kirstie Whitaker
Research Fellow, Alan Turing Institute & Senior Research Associate, University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge, Department of Psychiatry
UK
“Stop the anti-science of not sharing evidence”

Prof Alexander Refsum Jensenius
Associate professor, Department of Musicology. Deputy director, RITMO Centre of Excellence. Chair, Steering Committee for the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME)
University of Oslo
Norway
“A research paper without accompanying data is incomplete”

Dr Nicole Jung
Group leader Compound Platform/Research Assistant
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Institute of Toxicology and Genetics
Germany
“Research data should not be published in high-ranking journals without the storage of raw data in open and easily accessible repositories”

Prof Laura A. Janda
Professor of Russian Linguistics
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Norway
“By sharing our data, and doing this in an open, public, community fashion, we can determine the best practices for our field”

Dr Marta Teperek
Research Data Facility Manager at Cambridge; now Data Stewardship Co-ordinator at the TU Delft Library
University of Cambridge, Now Delft University of Technology
UK
“As open as possible, as closed as necessary”

Rosie Higman
Research data advisor, University of Cambridge, now Research Data Librarian at the University of Manchester Library
University of Cambridge
UK
“Funder requirements definitely change behaviour and they have taken away some of the fear of sharing data”

Prof Sverker Holmgren
Professor in Scientific Computing at Uppsala University, member of the Uppsala University Council for Research Infrastructure. Director of the Nordic eScience Globalisation Initiative (NeGI) at NordForsk
Uppsala University and NordForsk
Sweden
“It is essential that Open Science is introduced bottom-up; this is the only way for sustainable change”

Mikko Tolonen
Professor of research on digital resources
University of Helsinki, Department of Modern Languages
Finland
“Openness needs to be included in our core activities, in everything we do”

Prof. Eva M. Méndez Rodríguez
Professor and researcher
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Spain
“Research data needs to be easy to use, interoperable and affordable or else Open Science will just remain an aspiration”

Prof Jeppe C. Dyre
Professor of Physics, and leader of the research group “Glass and Time”
Roskilde University, Department of Science and Environment
Denmark
“Making data more accessible needs to make sense to the specific field of research”

Dr. Maggie Hellström
Data management specialist working for ICOS Carbon Portal - the data center of the European research infrastructure ICOS (https://icos-ri.eu/)
Lund University, Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, and the ICOS Carbon Portal
Sweden
“Science is like culture – it should be easily available to everyone”

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