I am a highly multidisciplinary researcher who has worked on projects with diverse colleagues from ecologists, engineers, psychologists, to geographers. Through these experiences, I learned that academic researchers – regardless of subject area – face common, systemic problems such as the pressure to publish or perish, and precarious contracts with punishing workloads. This is why my postdoctoral work focuses on “research on research,” applying academic rigour to solving these common problems. My goal is to help create a healthier research culture that benefits not just me, but also my fellow researchers. 

I am also an advocate for open research, having taken on an advisory role for the NASA Transform to Open Science (TOPS) mission; and worked with UNESCO on developing and implementing their Recommendation on Open Science. The Turing Way is also an open research community in which I am active. 

In addition, I have participated in open source tech communities for more than a decade. Currently, I am a board member of the Open Science Hardware Foundation, which advocates for open source hardware in open science policies. 

I am also a fellow of Aspiration Tech's "AI Openness & Equity Leadership Cohort" and a co-author of the Mozilla Foundation's open letter to the European Union on "Harnessing open source AI to advance digital sovereignty".

My scientific training was in ecology and conservation, including assessing impacts from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill and starting the MammalWeb citizen science biodiversity monitoring network.