Petra Ten Hoopen
Marine Data Manager
Biography
As a Scientific Data Manager at the UK Polar Data Centre at BAS, I focus on management, publication, archiving and integration of marine UK-funded research data collected in Antarctic and Arctic polar regions. In my role I manage biological, chemical and physical oceanography data generated during marine surveys from UK-funded polar programmes, BAS research vessels and the BAS science programmes Pelagic Ecosystems, Polar Oceans and marine aspects of Biodiversity, Evolution and Adaptation. I act as a co-chair of the Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) Data Management Sub-Committee and BAS data liaison for the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) and represent the UK Polar Data Centre at the I-ADOPT working group of the Research Data Alliance.
Previous employment
2008-20017 Scientific Data Stewardship and Coordination with focus on marine data management, standardisation and interoperability, EMBL-EBI, Hinxton – Cambridge, United Kingdom
2003-2007 Postdoctoral Research in Molecular Biology and Electrophysiology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Education
1998-2002 PhD in Biochemistry, IPK, Gatersleben, Germany (Thesis: Immunomodulation of plant hormone functions)
1994-1996 MSc in Biophysics and Biochemistry, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
1989-1994 MSc in Physics and Computer Sciences, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
ORCID
0000-0003-4242-4015