Mercè Crosas Navarro
Mercè Crosas Navarro | |||
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| Born | 1966 Barcelona | ||
| Nationality | Spanish | ||
| Citizenship | Spain | ||
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| Occupation | Researcher | ||
| Employer | Generalitat de Catalunya (2021-) Harvard University (2004-2021) | ||
Notable work | DASH Repository (Harvard University) | ||
Mercè Crosas is a Catalan researcher specializing in data management and open data. Since June 2021, she is the Secretary of Open Government in the Ministry for Foreign Action and Open Government of the Generalitat de Catalunya.[1] [2]
Crosas is a graduate in Physics from the University of Barcelona (1989) and a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Rice University (1992), with a predoctoral and postdoctoral appointment at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. She has spent most of her professional life at Harvard University, first as an astrophysicist and research software engineer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and later as the Chief Data Science and Technology Officer at Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science and the University Research Data Management Officer. From 2000 to 2004, she worked outside Harvard at a couple of biotechnology startups leading software development teams to build their research data systems.
During her time at Harvard University, she worked closely with research[3], computer services, and libraries to lead the management and publication of research data and provide guidance on University’s policies, processes, and tools to support the data lifecycle. Crosas has extensive experience in data systems architecture and international data standards, with a vision of making data more accessible while ensuring its privacy. From 2006 to 2021, she co-directed the Dataverse project[4] and open-source community. The software project has been successfully used to share and publish data in universities and research organizations worldwide. She was also co-Principal Investigator (co-PI) of the OpenDP project, an open-source set of differential privacy tools to analyze sensitive private data, and co-PI of the NIH Data Commons Consortium[5].
Crosas has been a member of numerous international committees and working groups focused on open data, data management and analysis, and data sharing. She is a co-author of internationally recognized and endorsed FAIR data principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable), and has contributed to the recommendations of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development controversy for access to public data[6]
References
- ↑ "Ministry for Foreign Action and Open Government, Catalan Government".
- ↑ "STAFF. "Mercè Crosas, de Harvard a secretària de Transparència i Govern Obert". June 2nd 2021".
- ↑ "References at Google Scholar".
- ↑ "Dataverse Projecte".
- ↑ "NIH Data Commons Pilot Phase Consortium".
- ↑ "Crosas, Mercè: OECD Workshop on the Revision of the Recommendation concerning access to research data from public funding".
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