I am very, very excited to announce that Nov 3 I will be joining the Open Science Hardware Foundation as their inaugural Executive Director. The OSHF is a US based non-profit with a global community that works to advance open scientific instrumentation to accelerate science and benefit society. We do this through collaboration, policy, advocacy, and community-building along with serving as a fiscal sponsor for projects, all in the service of making the tools of scientific discovery more equitable and available.
This is a really exciting opportunity for me, and speaks to so much of my experience; non-profit governance, open science, and long-standing fascination with hardware. It’s the perfect combination of my professional interests of the last two decades and my personal work in the “maker” world.
I am so excited to be in a position to be working to advance global science activity at such a high level, and to be given the trust of the OSHF community to do so. I’m going to be working with an amazing Board of Directors, as well as alongside a vibrant Gathering of Open Science (GOSH) community, and I don’t think I could have a better set of collaborators. I also expect to be reaching out to a lot of previous contacts in the Open Science and Open Access world, and if you’re interested in learning more, please reach out to me!
The full press release announcing my appointment to the position can be found below, as well as the OSHF’s blog post here.