The Base4NFDI International Advisory Board (IAB) is comprised of five international experts who will provide strategic advice to Base4NFDI. These highly distinguished experts are representatives of national data centres, research infrastructures, research organisations, infrastructure providers and interoperability frameworks. The board reviews the overall status of Base4NFDI and gives recommendations for the development and strategic operation.
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Carole Goble is a Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Manchester where she leads the e-Science Group of Researchers, Research Software Engineers and Data Stewards. She has 30+ years’ experience of leading digital research infrastructure development, and advancing innovations in research reproducible science, open and FAIR data and method sharing, knowledge and metadata management and computational workflows in a range of disciplines, notably the Life Sciences. Carole is the Joint Head of Node of ELIXIR-UK (28 research performing organisations), the national node of ELIXIR Europe, the European Research infrastructure for Life Science data. ELIXIR has 25 national nodes and 240+ organisations. She is responsible for ELIXIR flagship services for workflow and training registration and sharing, data management, and FAIR digital object metadata middleware. Carole is also co-Scientific Director of Federated Analytics for Health Data Research UK, a founder of the UK’s Software Sustainability Institute, and a partner in 10+ projects in the European Open Science Cloud. In 2023 Carole was the PC Chair of the inaugural NFDI conference CoRDI.
Hilary Hanahoe is the Secretary General of the global Research Data Alliance (RDA), an international, non-profit, volunteer organisation addressing the need for open and interoperable sharing and re-use of research data and building the social, technical and cross-disciplinary links to enable such sharing and re-use on a global scale. Currently, RDA has a community of over 14,500 individual data professionals from 151 countries collaborating on different open science and open data activities, operating under six fundamental guiding principles of openness, consensus, harmonisation, community-driven, inclusivity, not for profit and technology neutrality. Hilary is responsible for the financial and organisational sustainability of RDA on an international level and is the RDA Foundation CEO. She is passionate about the work of the Research Data Alliance and its vibrant, volunteer community working to enable the open sharing and reuse of data across the globe.
Rosie Hicks is the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). The ARDC is a sector-wide initiative enabled by the Australian Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) to provide Australian researchers with competitive advantage through data. The ARDC’s mission is to accelerate research and innovation by driving excellence in the creation, analysis and retention of high-quality data assets. Rosie has expertise and extensive knowledge of the Australian research infrastructure sector, and leadership experience including as the inaugural CEO of the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF). Her career, spanning Japan, UK and Australia, includes every aspect of scientific instrumentation from product development and technical marketing to the management of multi-user facilities, working in environments that cross academic and industry domains.
Klaus Tochtermann studied computer science at Kiel University and at Dortmund University, where he received his doctorate. From 2001 to 2010 he was the scientific director of the research institute Know-Center, a competence centre for information technology-based knowledge management located in Austria.
Since 2010, Klaus Tochtermann has been the director of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics in Kiel and Hamburg, and has held a chair for Digital Information Infrastructures at Kiel University.
He is involved in numerous committees related to research data management, including the Council for Information Infrastructures in Germany (2015-2022), the Senate of the National Research Data Infrastructure in Germany (since 2022) and the Board of Directors of the EOSC Association (since 2021).
Mark van de Sanden is working as an Enterprise Architect at SURF. He has more than 25 years of experience in managing supercomputers, large scale data infrastructures and has been participating in European projects. He is a data and storage expert and has been leading the data services team for more than 10 years. In EUDAT, Mark is a member of the secretariat responsible for strategic service development. He has been involved in many EOSC related projects (e.g. EOSC-Hub, EOSC Future, DICE, FAIRCORE4EOSC, EOSC-ENTRUST, AARC-TREE) and has been member of the EOSC Architecture working group, the EOSC-A task forces on technical interoperability and of the EOSC Federation Handbook writing team.
