Alfredo Gonzalez-Espinoza is the Research and Data Services Librarian at Carnegie Mellon University. Alfredo was interviewed by Sarah Reiff Conell in June 2025. How did you come to your current position? During my PhD (Physics) in México and postdoctoral studies at interdisciplinary labs (Biophysics and Computational Genomics in México and Mathematical Biology at Penn), I realized…
Sarah Reiff Conell is the Research Data Management Specialist at Princeton University. Sarah was interviewed by Jennifer Patiño in April 2025. How did you come to your current position? I came to this position through a PhD in art history. I was a project manager for a few different projects, but in each of my positions,…
Jennifer Patiño is the Data and Digital Scholarship Librarian at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Jennifer was interviewed by Matthew Murray in March 2025. What’s your current position and how did you come to it? I am the Data and Digital Scholarship Librarian over at UW Madison. I’m from Chicago, and I have a background…
Hello! I’m Amy and I’m thrilled to join the Data Curation Network as the new Special Programs Manager, where I’ll divide my time between community management in the DCN and supporting the RADS Initiative. I’m a professional Dungeons and Dragons Game Master (I’ve been hired to GM birthday parties and teach/facilitate games for local middle…
Matthew Murray🦇 is the Data Librarian at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Matthew was interviewed by Talya Cooper in December 2024. What is your name and your position title? My name is Matthew Murray, and my position is Data Librarian, which I think is like the shortest librarian title they have in the library where I work….
Talya Cooper is the Research Curation Librarian at New York University. Talya was interviewed by Neggin Keshavarizan in October 2024. How did you come to your current position? My first position at NYU was a grant funded position as part of a project called Collaborating on Software Archiving For Institutions. The PI was my now-colleague,…
Neggin Keshavarzian is the Research Data Management Specialist at Princeton University. Neggin was interviewed by Lauren Phegley in October 2024. How did you come to your current position? It was kind of serendipitous. I didn’t know that this was a type of job that someone could have. In my previous position, I was a research…
Lauren Phegley is the Research Data Engineer at the University of Pennsylvania. Lauren was interviewed by Halle Burns in August 2024. How did you come to your current position? I came to the University of Pennsylvania from graduate school. I worked at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign in their Research Data Service in the…
This post is a spin-off of our Curators’ Corner series. Every so often we’ll feature a different DCN Advisory or Governance Board member. Get to know the colleagues at the DCN that help keep our operations going! Tim McGeary, Associate University Librarian for Digital Strategies and Technology, Duke University, DCN Advisory Board Chair, was interviewed…
Halle Burns is the Research Data Management Specialist at Princeton University. Halle was interviewed by Alexandra Provo in June 2024. How did you come to your current position? When I was in a library school, I largely took either data management or data science courses – learning how to code, metadata schemas, data cleaning, things…