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