Module 1: Basics of Research Data Management and Open Science

Tereza Kalová, MA (Res), M.A. LIS

Tereza Kalová is the data stewardship coordinator at the University of Vienna with over ten years of experience in librarianship and education. Together with a team of embedded data stewards as well as a larger Research Data Management team, she develops needs-based services for researchers and students in the area of data management and Open Science. She leads the “Data Steward” certificate program – the first further education program for data stewards in Austria. Tereza serves as the chair of the Management Board of the EOSC Support Office Austria and is involved in several international initiatives including the RDA, OpenAIRE and LIBER.

Tereza holds a Research Master’s degree in critical theory/children’s literature (University of Reading, UK) and an MA in Library and Information Science (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany).

Dr. Louise Bezuidenhout

Dr. Louise Bezuidenhout

Louise Bezuidenhout is a social science researcher who specializes on issues relating to Open Science, data sharing and access. Her research is broadly oriented around themes such as justice and access, inclusion and marginalization and equity. Much of her work to date has concentrated on understanding diverse voices and values within the Open Science movement, in particular identifying ways to improve the representation and inclusion of low/middle-income country researchers into the Open Science landscape. This work has involved embedded ethnographies, interviews and surveys in a number of countries in Africa, Europe and North America.

Dr Bezuidenhout holds PhDs in cardiothoracic surgery (University of Cape Town, RSA) and sociology (University of Exeter, UK). She has had postdoctoral research posts at the Universities of Exeter (UK), Notre Dame (USA), Oxford (UK) and Cape Town (RSA). She has also held lectureships at University College London (UK), University of the Witwatersrand (RSA) and the University of Oxford (UK). Dr Bezuidenhout currently work for Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at the University of Leiden as a senior researcher focusing on Open Science monitoring and practice.

 

Sabine Chai, PhD

Sabine Chai is the managing director of the Austrian Agency for Research Integrity (OeAWI). 

She earned her PhD in Communication at the University of Maryland, College Park and has experience in teaching, training, research, and consulting in academia and non-profit organizations. Across disciplines, the focus of her work has been on providing training in research methodology, dissemination skills, and intercultural communication, as well as on conducting program assessment. 

As managing director of the Austrian Agency for Research Integrity, she particularly enjoys contributing to the success of the scientific enterprise and the credibility of researchers by supporting endeavors to improve and protect the integrity of the research process.
 

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Raman Ganguly

Raman Ganguly is the head of the department IT Support for Research as well as the technical director of the repository PHAIDRA. He is responsible for the research data management infrastructure at the University of Vienna as well as an active member of several international and national networks such as the RDA, COAR, OpenAIRE and RepManNet.

Mag. Christoph Korab, BA

Christoph Korab is a PhD-Candidate (Prae-Doc) at the Department for Innovation and Digitalization in Law of the University of Vienna. He works as legal support for the RDM Team of the University of Vienna.  He studied Law and Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna. His research interest are intellectual property and new technologies. 

Dr.Phil. Marjo Rauhala, MSSc., BA

Marjo Rauhala (Dr.Phil., MSSc., BA) is the Head of Service Unit of Responsible Research Practices at TU Wien and responsible for establishing the research ethics advisory and review structures for the entire university. With an academic background in philosophical and biomedical ethics and social sciences, Marjo Rauhala has broad experience in the field of research ethics. This experience encompasses academic research, ethics management and advisory tasks in interdisciplinary engineering projects, collaboration with a national ethics council, as well as research ethics review in the research funding programs of the European Union. Since 2012, Marjo Rauhala participates in the European Commission’s working groups on ethics policy and guidance and expert panels in ethics screening, review and check/follow-up of European funded research for the European Commission’s Ethics and Integrity Sector and the European Research Council.