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International Advisory Board (IAB)

The Base4NFDI International Advisory Board (IAB) is comprised of five international experts who will provide strategic advice to Base4NFDI. These highly distinguished experts are representatives of national data centres, research infrastructures, research organisations, infrastructure providers and interoperability frameworks. The board reviews the overall status of Base4NFDI and gives recommendations for the development and strategic operation.

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Carole Goble

Carole Goble is a Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Manchester where she leads the e-Science Group of Researchers, Research Software Engineers and Data Stewards. She has 30+ years’ experience of leading digital research infrastructure development, and advancing innovations in research reproducible science, open and FAIR data and method sharing, knowledge and metadata management and computational workflows in a range of disciplines, notably the Life Sciences. Carole is the Joint Head of Node of ELIXIR-UK (28 research performing organisations), the national node of ELIXIR Europe, the European Research infrastructure for Life Science data. ELIXIR has 25 national nodes and 240+ organisations. She is responsible for ELIXIR flagship services for workflow and training registration and sharing, data management, and FAIR digital object metadata middleware. Carole is also co-Scientific Director of Federated Analytics for Health Data Research UK, a founder of the UK’s Software Sustainability Institute, and a partner in 10+ projects in the European Open Science Cloud. In 2023 Carole was the PC Chair of the inaugural NFDI conference CoRDI. 

Hilary Hanahoe

Hilary Hanahoe is the Secretary General of the global Research Data Alliance (RDA), an international, non-profit, volunteer organisation addressing the need for open and interoperable sharing and re-use of research data and building the social, technical and cross-disciplinary links to enable such sharing and re-use on a global scale. Currently, RDA has a community of over 14,500 individual data professionals from 151 countries collaborating on different open science and open data activities, operating under six fundamental guiding principles of openness, consensus, harmonisation, community-driven, inclusivity, not for profit and technology neutrality. Hilary is responsible for the financial and organisational sustainability of RDA on an international level and is the RDA Foundation CEO. She is passionate about the work of the Research Data Alliance and its vibrant, volunteer community working to enable the open sharing and reuse of data across the globe.