Interdisciplinary & international

The connecting thread in my work is an interest in how scientific information, particularly data, is managed, understood and used in academic and public spheres. My current research explores practices and infrastructures involved in peer review, data management and open science.  My previous work has focused on how data visualizations related to climate change and COVID-19 are produced and understood and practices of data citation within academia. My doctoral work investigated data discovery and reuse in the context of informing the development of data search systems.

My bachelor’s degree (magna cum laude) is in the life sciences (BSc in neuroscience), which I followed with a master’s degree (MA) in education. After spending some years teaching high school chemistry, I pursued another master’s degree in library & information science (MScLIS). I had the pleasure of working as an academic science librarian before my research interests led me to conduct doctoral research in the field of science & technology studies (PhD, 2021, cum laude).

Born in the USA, I have now lived and worked in four countries, and have enjoyed developing research collaborations which cross even more borders. My work has taken me from Colorado (University of Denver) to Germany (Technical University of Munich) to the Netherlands (Leiden University & the Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts & Sciences) to Austria (University of Vienna). You can find more details in my full CV.