The Data Science Centre (DSC) International Advisory Board consists of world-leading researchers in the data science community. Their connection to the wider data science community and their expertise in different aspects of the field provides strategic guidance to the DSC.  

The event programme will consist of 3 engaging presentations on a wide variety of current data science topics, ranging from the Data Science Ethos Lifecycle to how data science informs environmental policy during the COVID-19 pandemic. There will be time at the end of the presentations for Q&A discussion with the audience.  

This event will take place in-person. 

Details: 

Date: Friday 24 March 2023  
Time: 10:00 – 12:30 (doors open at 09:30) 
Location: Het Trippenhuis, Kloveniersburgwal 29, Amsterdam (Google Maps link)

Everyone (both UvA and non-UvA) is welcome to register and join this event. Registration is free of charge. 

If you have any questions about this event, please do not hesitate to contact the Data Science Centre at dsc@uva.nl.  

About the speakers: 

Prof. Francesca Dominici 

Director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative, at Harvard University and the Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population and Data Science at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.  

Francesca Dominici is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and of the International Society of Mathematical Statistics. She leads an interdisciplinary group of scientists with the ultimate goal of addressing important questions in environmental health science, climate change, and health policy. Francesca has provided the scientific community and policy makers with robust evidence on the adverse health effects of air pollution, noise pollution, and climate change. Her studies have directly and routinely impacted air quality policy.   

Francesca has published more than 220 peer-reviewed publications and was recognized in Thomson Reuter’s 2019 list of the most highly cited researchers – ranking in the top 1% of cited scientists in her field. Her work has been covered by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, BBC, the Guardian, CNN, and NPR. In April 2020, she was awarded the Karl E. Peace Award for Outstanding Statistical Contributions for the Betterment of Society by the American Statistical Association. Francesca is an advocate for the career advancement of women faculty. Her work on the Johns Hopkins University Committee on the Status of Women earned her the campus Diversity Recognition Award in 2009. At the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, she has led the Committee for the Advancement of Women Faculty.  

Prof. Eva Méndez 

Deputy Vice-President for Research Policy and Open Science, and Professor at the Library and Information Science at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M).

Eva Méndez holds a PhD in Library and Information Sciences (LIS) and is an expert in metadata. She defines herself in her Twitter profile as an ‘open knowledge militant’ (@evamen). 

Eva has been a lecturer at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), LIS department since 1997. She has been an active member of several international research teams, advisory boards and communities including: DCMI, OpenAire, Metadata2020, RDA, etc. 

In 2005-06, Eva was awarded a Fulbright Research Scholarship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA). She has taken part in and led several research projects and acted as advisor to many more in the fields related with standardization, metadata, semantic web, open data, digital repositories and libraries, in addition to information and research policies in several countries. 

In 2015 Eva won the Young Researcher of Excellence award of her University. In November 2017 she was named “Open Data Champion” by SPARC Europe. She is currently Deputy Vice President for Scientific Policy-Open Science at UC3M and she was the chair of the EU-OSPP (European Open Science Policy Platform) on behalf of YERUN (Young European Research Universities Network).  

Dr. Micaela Parker 

Founder and Executive Director at the Academic Data Science Alliance.

Micaela Parker is the Founder and Executive Director of the Academic Data Science Alliance (ADSA), a community organization for data science leaders, practitioners, and educators who build and share resources for responsible data science in higher education. Before launching ADSA, Parker worked for the Moore-Sloan Data Science Environments and was an Executive Director for the University of Washington’s eScience Institute. At the eScience Institute, she developed data science research and training programs, and participated in strategic planning and fiscal oversight. Based on her many years of experience, Parker now offers consulting for emerging data science initiatives in academia.   

Prior to her entry into data science, Parker was a research scientist for over 10 years in the University of Washington's School of Oceanography where she managed the Center for Human Health and Ocean Studies. She has been involved in many large, interdisciplinary projects bridging oceanography and genomics. She continues to hold the title of eScience Data Science Fellow, and she is a Research Scholar with the Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship.  

How the UvA Library supports data-driven research
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