Community & Advocacy

Leadership & Governance

Steering the future of open science through high-level decision-making.

Empowering the next generation of researchers through structured mentorship and ethical governance.

Mentoring: Outreachy, OLS, Open Seeds and Euro-BioImaging programs (2021-Present)
Ethics & Culture: Member of Galaxy and Bioconductor Code of Conduct Committees (2021-2022)

Designing global platforms for knowledge exchange and technical capacity building.

Lead, Euro-BioImaging Scientific Ambassador Program (2024-Present)
Member, Galaxy Community Board (2024-Present)
Member, GloBIAS Communications Working Group (2024-Present)
Co-chair, FAIR Image Data Workflows Expert Group (2023-Present)
Co-chair, Research Data Alliance (RDA) FAIR4ML Interest Group (2023-Present)
Lead, AI4Life’s Work Package 7 on ‘Communication, Outreach & Training’ (2022-2025)
Member, AI4Life Steering Committee (2022-2025)
Member, AI4Life Project Management Executive Board (2022-2025)
Member, Galaxy Project Management Office (2022)

Organiser, AI4Life Community Event (2025)
Organiser, AI4Life & GloBIAS webinar series (2025)
Organiser, Zero-code tools & BMZ Community partners – Workshop & Hackathon/Uploadthon (2024)
Organiser, 5th NEUBIAS Conference Training School & Symposium (2023)
Organiser, European Galaxy Days (EGD2022)
Organiser, Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2022)
Organiser, Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2021)
Organiser, Bioinformatics Community Conference Collaboration Fest (BCC2020)

Co-chair, virtual breakout on “FAIR Image Data” at the Global BioImaging Exchange of Experience 2024
Co-chair, virtual breakout on “Building Global Communities” at the Global BioImaging Exchange of Experience 2023
Contributor, Galaxy Training Network (GTN)
Translator, GTÑ project (Galaxy Training Network in Spanish)
Member, Galaxy Training Network Editorial Board

Mentor, Euro-BioImaging Mentoring Program (2026)
Mentor, Open Seeds program DRA-EDIA track
- ‘Building a multiplexed imaging data repository to increase accessibility for equity-seeking groups‘ (2024-2025)
- ‘From Pixels to Purpose: Leveraging In-Person and Online Platforms for Data-Driven Advocacy For EDIA in The Use of Digital Research Alliance of Canada Resources‘ (2024-2025)
Mentor, Outreachy Program
- ’Develop a culture of wellbeing for open source projects, the Galaxy community as a use case’ (2022)
- ’Improve our onboarding process of new Galaxy communities’ (2021-2022)
Mentee, Open Life Science (OLS) Program
- ’Growing the Galaxy Community’ (2020)