Keynote Speakers

We are pleased to confirm the following keynote speakers at NZ eResearch Symposium 2012:

Dr. Cameron Neylon

Biography

Cameron Neylon is a biophysicist who has always worked in interdisciplinary areas and is an advocate of open research practice and improved data management.

He currently works as Senior Scientist in Biomolecular Sciences at the ISIS Neutron Scattering facility at the United KIngdom's Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).

Along with his work in structural biology and biophysics his research and writing focuses on the interface of web technology with science and the successful (and unsuccessful) application of generic and specially designed tools in the academic research environment.

He is a co-author of the Panton Principles for Open Data in Science, founding Editor in Chief of Open Research Computation, and writes regularly on the social, technical, and policy issues of open research at his blog, Science in the Open.

Links

UK STFC
Science in the Open

Sayeed Choudhury

Biography

G. Sayeed Choudhury is the Associate Dean for Research Data Management and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University.

He is also the Director of Operations for the Institute of Data Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES) based at Johns Hopkins.

He is a member of the National Academies Board on Research Data and Information, the ICPSR Council, DuraSpace Board, and a Senior Presidential Fellow with the Council on Library and Information Resources.

Previously, he was a member of the Digital Library Federation advisory committee and Library of Congress' National Digital Stewardship Alliance Coordinating Committee.

He has been a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins and a Research Fellow at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

He is the recipient of the 2012 OCLC/LITA Kilgour Award.

Links

Digital Research and Curation Center
Institute of Data Intensive Engineering and Science

Simon Burrows

Biography

Simon Burrows has lectured in History at Universities of Waikato (1993-2000) and Leeds, where he is currently Professor of Modern European History. In January 2013 he is taking up a professorship at the University of Western Sydney.

Simon's work focuses on French-language publishing, politics and propaganda between 1750 and 1820. Originally a historian of print journalism, his recent work has concentrated on pamphleteering and the international book trade. His AHRC-funded database of the 'French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe', about which he will be speaking, is due to be published within the Comparative History of Print projects's web presence in May 2012.

Professor Burrows is the author of French Exile Journalism and European Politics, 1792-1814 (2000); Blackmail, Scandal and Revolution: London's French Libellistes, 1759-1792 (2006) and A King's Ransom: the Life of Charles Théveneau de Morande (2010).

He is co-editor of collections on Press, Politics and the Public Sphere (2002), The Chevalier d'Eon (2010) and Cultural Transfers (2010) and has published more than 20 essays in books and academic journals.

Links

Centre for the Comparative History of Print