Entrevista com Barend Mons | An interview with Barend Mons

Patricia Corrêa Henning,Luana Sales

doi:10.18617/liinc.v15i2.5043

Abstract

Barend Mons is a molecular biologist and, since 2012, he has been a professor of BioSemantics in the Department of Human Genetics at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) in the Netherlands. In 2015, he was chair of the High-Level Expert Group on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Since 2017, he has been heading the GO FAIR initiative’s Dutch International Support and Coordination office. In 2018, he was elected president of the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) of the International Science Council for a four-year term through 2022. He is also a member of the Netherlands Academy of Technology and Innovation (AcTI), and he is a representative of the Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine in the USA.

Highlights

Interviewer: Professor Barend, at first, we would like to say that it is a pleasure to be here at the GO FAIR Initiative in Leiden, and we want to thank you for the opportunity to conduct this interview
Barend Mons is a molecular biologist and, since 2012, he has been a professor of BioSemantics in the Department of Human Genetics at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) in the Netherlands
In 2018, he was elected president of the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) of the International Science Council for a four-year term through 2022. He is a member of the Netherlands Academy of Technology and Innovation (AcTI), and he is a representative of the Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine in the USA

Summary

AN INTERVIEW WITH BAREND MONS

In 2015, he was chair of the High-Level Expert Group on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). In 2018, he was elected president of the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) of the International Science Council for a four-year term through 2022. He is a member of the Netherlands Academy of Technology and Innovation (AcTI), and he is a representative of the Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine in the USA. How do you see the recommendations of the High-Level Expert Group (HLEG) regarding the direction that is being taken by the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)?. As Einstein already said, ‘We cannot use the same thinking to solve our problems that we used to create them’

When did you begin to worry about data stewardship?

And what led you to get involved with this subject?