Stories of Open Science

Stories of Open Science

Hear from many open science practitioners on what open science means to them, what motivates them to do open science, what challenges exist to practicing, what benefits there are, and more. Read these inspiring stories and engage with TOPS to learn about TOPS OpenCore capacity sharing resources.

Africa Ixmucane Flores-Anderson
Earth
Sep 12, 2022
Dr. Africa Ixmucane Flores-Anderson is a research scientist at University of Alabama in Huntsville, working on NASA SERVIR as the Land Cover Land Use Change (LCLUC) and Ecosystems Theme Lead. She focuses on using optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite datasets for environmental... Read More
Africa Ixmucane Flores-Anderson smiling in a red sweater.
Dr. Flavio Azevedo
Aug 26, 2022
Dr. Flavio Azevedo is a political psychologist and an associate researcher at the University of Cambridge, as well as a co-founder and director of FORRT, which aims to integrate open scholarship principles into higher education and advance research transparency, reproducibility, and ethics. “... Read More
Dr. Flavio Azevedo
Dr. Afshin Beheshti
Space Biology, COVID-19
Aug 25, 2022
Dr. Afshin Beheshti is a bioinformatician and principal investigator at KBR at NASA's Ames Research Center. He leads the Multi-Omics Analysis Working Group (AWG) at NASA’s Gene Lab and is the president of the COVID-19 International Research Team (COV-IRT). “With a large network of people, you... Read More
Dr. Afshin Beheshti
Dr. Reina Camacho Toro
Aug 24, 2022
Dr. Reina Camacho Toro is an experimental particle physicist and a member of the ATLAS collaboration at CERN. She is also part of a European-Latin American network creating postgraduate courses in advanced physics guided by the principles of open science and education at LA-CoNGA physics. “You need... Read More
Reina Camacho Toro
Dr. Leo Singer
Universe
Aug 23, 2022
Dr. Leo Singer is a research astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, working on the General Coordinates Network (GCN) and real-time analysis of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) data. He co-authored and co-maintains the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA Public Alerts User... Read More
Leo Singer