Contributor

Dr. Christine Kirkpatrick leads the SDSC Research Data Services division, which manages large-scale infrastructure, networking, and services for research projects of regional and national scope. She leads the Schmidt Futures Foundation, NSF-funded Open Storage Network, and Data Core for the NIH-funded Metabolomics Workbench. Her research centers on improving machine learning processing through research data management techniques. She is the PI of the EarthCube Office (ECO); Kirkpatrick founded the US GO FAIR Office, the West Big Data Innovation Hub, and the Co-PI on an NSF Accelnet: Designing a Water, Data, and Systems Science Network of Networks to Catalyze Transboundary Groundwater Resiliency Research. She serves as the Secretary General of the International Science Council's Committee on Data (CODATA), co-Chairs the FAIR Digital Object Forum, is on the external Advisory Board for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Nordic, and the National Academies of Sciences’ U.S. National Committee for the Committee on Data.