Open Science Evening Talks 2017: free event
Event details
| Date | 27.09.2017 |
| Hour | 18:00 › 19:15 |
| Speaker | Marta Teperek : Dr Marta Teperek did a PhD in molecular biology at the University of Cambridge. Having first-hand experience of problems that researchers face on a day-to-day basis, with the journals’ impact factor, and not the quality of the research process, dictating the future of their academic career, Marta decided to get professionally involved in advocating for Open Research and for better reproducibility in science. In 2015 she joined the University of Cambridge and led the creation and development of the Research Data Management Facility, supporting researchers at the University of Cambridge in good management and sharing of research data. While at Cambridge, Marta initiated and overseen the Data Champions programme and the Open Research Pilot. In August 2017 Marta will move to TU Delft in Netherlands, where she will lead the Research Data Stewardship project. Sünje Dallmeier-Tiessen: Sünje is the data coordinator in the Scientific Information Service at CERN. Together with her colleagues she builds services to enable researchers to practice Open Science and to take steps towards reproducible research. As part of this the CERN Open Data Portal (opendata.cern.ch) emerged and a new service called CERN Analysis Preservation is under development. Both pay particular attention to the challenge of future reusability and reproducibility of research outputs, e.g. through easy and comprehensive preservation of data, code etc... She holds a PhD in Information Science. Her previous positions in publishing and research management made her realize the need to build Open Science "workflows" that incentivize sharing and that integrate well into research environments. Hence, she co-chaired the RDA Data Publishing Workflows group and serves on several boards of national and international bodies. This work, together with a research stay at IQSS at Harvard University in 2015, enabled her to study data publishing practices beyond disciplinary boundaries. Lucia Prieto : Lucia is a FEBS postdoctoral fellow at CIG in Lausanne University. Her current research focuses on the genetic basis of olfactory pathway evolution in Drosophila. She will soon move to London, UK to start her group at the Francis Crick Institute. She obtained her B.A. from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, where she did her research thesis on olfactory processing in flies. After a summer working on vision evolution in box jellyfish at Lund University, she joined the University of Cambridge for her PhD. She co-founded TReND in Africa, an organisation supporting sustainable development through higher education and scientific innovation. |
| Location |
Rolex Learning Center
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| Category | Internal trainings |
This free event took place in the Rolex Learning Center from Monday 25th to Thursday 28th September at 6pm on the EPFL Campus (Rolex Learning Center). Following the programme of the Open Science Summer School, each day focused on a specific aspect of Open Science: landscape, publications, research data, code and tools.
The main goal was to encourage a constructive thinking and stimulate discussions about Open Science, offering every evening two or three short public talks followed by an aperitif, to allow participants exchange in an informal and convivial context.
The event was open to EPFL community, as well as all those who wanted to learn more about Open Science, getting an overview of its main stakes and the related evolution of academic research.
Watch the playlist of all talks given by specialists in the Open Science field on Youtube.
6.10PM "Championing through action - innovative ways of engaging researchers with Open Science" by Marta Teperek (PRESENTATION)
Abstract: Increasingly institutions across the world are looking for innovative ways of effectively engaging researchers with Open Science agenda to help facilitate cultural change. Efforts are needed to help win hearts and minds as mandates alone are ineffective. In this talk Marta will highlight some examples of innovative ways for communication and engagement with researchers from the University of Cambridge, TU Delft and other institutions.
6.30PM "Data Publishing: easy, comprehensive, with impact" by Sünje Dallmeier-Tiessen (PRESENTATION)
Abstract: Sharing data and getting credit for it? Not unheard of these days. Thanks to quite a few tools and services out there, it became much easier to share data in a reliable way. The presentation will showcase a few places or workflows that make it easy to document and publish data in a way so that others can access, understand, assess and reuse the data. Knowing that it takes a little bit of time to take such steps, more and more workflows emerge that help getting some credit or visibility for such shared materials. That's why particular emphasis will be given to tools like ORCID that can help bringing the own research output, from papers to data and code, into the spotlight.
6.50PM « How Open Science is changing the world, and how you can take part » Lucia Prieto (PRESENTATION)
Every scientist is familiar with Open Scientific Software such as ImageJ or R-project. Developed by contributors worldwide, these freely available programs revolutionised the way scientists could analyse their data. But, what about hardware? If the community can build their own scientific software, the step to scientific hardware (“Open Labware”) is but a small one. I will talk about how openly sharing information is changing the world with a special focus on Open Labware. I will present examples from various initiatives and projects, including my own experience working with African scientists to promote affordable bio-medical research and teaching in the continent through a non-profit organisation I founded. Importantly, I hope to convince you that everyone can contribute and make a difference independently of your level of expertise, and I will introduce a few essential tools to get started.
Practical information
- General public
- Registration required
Organizer
- Bibliothèque de l'EPFL