Data Champion Award
Data Champion Award: Best Practice in RDM
Good research data management can be challenging – for many researchers, it means not only using new tools, but also rethinking their own approach to data. To acknowledge those going above and beyond, the INF projects in CRCs regularly present Data Champion Awards to PhD candidates: exciting prizes e.g. for pioneers, for team players, for active collaboration with data stewards, for openly sharing data – in short, for excellent scientific practice.
We’re happy to introduce our data champions: they all demonstrate what best practice in looks like in RDM and share their experiences in handling data.
Data Champions
CRC 1430 Gina Simon: How eLabFTW makes lab life easier
In her PhD project within CRC 1430, Gina Simon researches molecular Golgi stress factors and their role in cell state transitions. Supervised by Prof. Dr. Doris Hellerschmied-Jelinek, she has been an enthusiastic pioneer in the use of the electronic lab notebook eLabFTW, for which she has received the CRC 1430 Data Champion Award. In our interview, she explains how eLabFTW makes her day-to-day research easier and how she combines eLabFTW with other tools, such as the microscope data repository OMERO.
CRC/TRR 196: MARIE Yamen Zantah: “RDM is not a luxury, it’s a need”
Yamen Zantah is a research associate at the Chair for Digital Signal Processing (Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, UDE). Researching THz technology in CRC MARIE, he was responsible for setting up the electronic lab notebook eLabFTW for his working group and has received the Data Champion Award for his pioneering use of research data management tools. In this interview, Yamen shares insights into his research practice and discusses his dedication to furthering open science as a whole.
CRC/TRR 196: MARIE Xuan Liu: How collaborative projects pose new challenges to RDM
Dr. Xuan Liu completed her PhD thesis on MEM-enabled reconfigurable reflectarray for terahertz beam steering as part of CRC MARIE. She received the Data Champion Award for her contributions to developing a metadata scheme for the CRC and for her practice of data sharing. In our interview, she discusses the challenges of RDM in collaborative work, the process of developing metadata descriptions, and how to motivate researchers to improve their RDM practice.