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…
Alexandra Provo is the Research Curation Librarian at NYU. Alexandra was interviewed by Brandie Pullen in April 2024. How did you come to your current position? I was working in metadata before, and I enjoyed that a lot – the mix of technical work and project work. But I also really enjoyed teaching workshops, and…
Brandie Pullen is the Resident Librarian working in Data Curation at Virginia Tech Library. Brandie was interviewed by Sherry Lake in March 2024. How did you come to your current position? Coming out of college I knew I wanted to work in Libraries, something “behind the scenes.” I started working in metadata and cataloging, doing…
Sherry Lake is the Scholarly Repository Librarian at the University of Virginia. Sherry was interviewed by Madina Grace in February 2024. How did you come to your current position? I’ve been at the University of Virginia (UVa) Library for over 20 years but I’ll start in 2010 when the NSF sharing data letter came out….
Madina Grace is the Repository Services Analyst at Duke University Libraries. Madina was interviewed by Peter Cerda in January 2024. How did you come to your current position? I discovered this position while browsing online job listings after graduating from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2021. With my prior experience as a graduate assistant…
Peter Cerda is the Data Curation Specialist for Workflows and Big Data at the University of Michigan’s Deep Blue Repositories. Peter was interviewed by Leslie Delserone in October 2023. How did you come to your current position? When I was starting to wrap up my graduate studies [in ecology and evolutionary biology], I realized that…
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! Jody Gray, Associate University Librarian for Research, University of Minnesota, was interviewed by Mikala Narlock in October 2023….