Diversity matters in Digital Scholarly Technology - A Conversation with Mark Hahnel

Access 2 Perspectives – Conversations. All about Open Science Communication

Mark Hahnel is the CEO and founder of Figshare, which he created whilst completing his PhD in stem cell biology at Imperial College London. Figshare currently provides research data infrastructure for institutions, publishers and funders globally. He is passionate about open science and the potential it has to revolutionize the research community. For the last eight years, Mark has been leading the development of research data infrastructure, with the core aim of reusable and interoperable academic data. Mark sits on the board of DataCite and the advisory board for the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). He was on the judging panel for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Wellcome Trust Open Science prize and acted as an advisor for the Springer Nature master classes.

ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4741-0309

Website: figshare.com

Linkedin: /mark-hahnel

Twitter: @MarkHahnel

Which researcher – dead or alive – do you find inspiring? My old PI Sara Rankin, just for the sheer range of her interests and achievements. She is a Professor of Leukocyte and Stem Cell Biology Imperial College London, a science/art collaborator, and a more recent leader in the UK neurodiversity movement.
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