Dr. Heidi Seibold is co-founder co-executive director of the Digital Research Academy, a trainer network focused on Open Science, Data Literacy and Research Software Engineering. Her research used to be at the intersection of statistics, machine learning and medicine, before wandering into the field of Open Science. She left her academic career in 2021 to pursue her passion of helping researchers improve the quality of their research through good scientific practices and Open Science.
She is in the steering group of the German Reproducibility Network and initiated the Open Science Retreat, an unconference that is in its third year now. Heidi writes a successful newsletter on open and reproducible data science with >2000 subscribers and has been involved in various podcast productions.
Heidi is an avid cyclist and hiker and tries to avoid cars and airplanes as much as possible.
