Sophia Lafferty-Hess is a Senior Research Data Management Consultant at Duke University. Sophia was interviewed by Seth Erickson in August, 2019. How did you come to your current position? I got involved in data curation and data management during graduate school at UNC. I did an internship at the Odum Institute for Research in Social…
Seth Erickson is the Software Curation Librarian and CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow at Pennsylvania State University. Seth was interviewed by Chen Chiu in May of 2019. How did you come to your current position? I did my PhD in Information Studies at UCLA. I studied researcher software development practices. I’d been interested in this area for…
Chen Chiu is a Data Management Consultant at Johns Hopkins University. Chen was interviewed by Hoa Luong in May of 2019. How did you come to your current position? I was doing a postdoc at Johns Hopkins and wanted to transition into a full-time position. I applied for this data management position and was hired!…
Hoa Luong is the Assistant Director of Research Data Curation for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Hoa was interviewed by Jennifer Moore in May of 2019. How did you come to your current position? I received my MLIS from UIUC and then I got a position in the Engineering Library at the University of…
Jennifer Moore is Head of Data Services for Washington University Libraries at Washington University in St. Louis. Jennifer was interviewed by Rachel Woodbrook in May of 2019. How did you come to your current position? I started as a Social Science Librarian with a focus in Anthropology at WashU about eight years ago. I’ve had…
Rachel Woodbrook is the Data Curation Librarian for the University of Michigan. Rachel was interviewed by Shanda Hunt in May of 2019. How did you come to your current position? After graduating from library school I worked in community college libraries for a while and then the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in…
Shanda Hunt is an Assistant Librarian at the University of Minnesota and Liaison & Data Curation Specialist to the School of Public Health. Shanda was interviewed by Erin Clary in April of 2019. How did you come to your current position? I took an unusual path to the library – I went back to grad…
Erin Clary is a Senior Curator at Dryad and serves as both a Curator and Dryad’s Representative for the DCN. Erin was interviewed by DCN Project Coordinator Liza Coburn in March of 2019. How did you come to your current position? Dryad is an NSF grant funded project. One of the Dryad PIs, Dr. Jane…