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Cass is Co-Founder and Executive Director of RCM Cooperative . She has a PhD in Neuroscience (2014) and 5 years experience building data science communities at the Alan Turing Institute and University of Oxford, with a particular focus on embedding open research practices. With both qualitative and quantitative research expertise, she is a skilled analyst, strategist and creative problem solver. She aims for maximum transparency and reproducibility in her work, and prioritises inclusive and joyful participation. At The RCM Cooperative, she is developing community management training materials, mentoring new research community managers, and facilitating research funding and performing organisations through professional community management practices. She is delighted to bring her research community management expertise to Corvus Cooperative.

Danny is an open science activist, neuroscientist, community manager, and co-op nerd.

They are the community manager (and also deliver trainings) through the Digital Research Academy. They’re part of the Infrastructure Working Group of The Turing Way (a collaboratively written guide to ethical research), which is currently working towards building multi-language support. They’re currently excited about the potential of cooperative organisations and infrastructure for making research culture more sustainable, cooperative, and mentally well.

Jez is passionate about democratising access to technology and information, and making work more human, sustainable and resilient. With an MSci in Mathematics & Computing, a PG.Cert. in Higher Education, and 15+ years experience supporting researchers, librarians and many others in their use of technology, he is adept at translating between the languages of different disciplines and meeting people where they are to build their confidence and capability.

His main interest in recent years has been open scholarship and research data management, with a focus on strategy, policy, infrastructure and organisational development in the GLAM sector. He loves learning and is rarely happier than when taking a deep dive into a new area of knowledge, a new metadata scheme or a new programming language. This has driven his contributions to community projects as a founding Steering Group member of Library Carpentry , early contributor to The Turing Way , and most recently protecting at-risk datasets as a core team member of Safeguarding Research & Culture .

Laura Carter is a qualitative researcher with expertise in the social and human rights impact of technology. She is passionate about open, participatory and inclusive research, strategy and action.

She has previously worked for the Ada Lovelace Institute and for Amnesty International, was a core contributor to the Turing Way, and mentored participants in OLS’s Open Seeds programme.

Laura holds a PhD in Human Rights & Research Methods from the University of Essex, an MA in Gender Studies from SOAS University of London, and a BA in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge. She currently lives on the unceded traditional lands of the Duwamish people in Seattle, USA.

Patricia Herterich is the Associate Director of Finance and Operations at OLS. She holds an MA in Library and Information Science from Humboldt University of Berlin (2013) and brings over a decade of experience in research data management and Open Science. Her previous roles include working on European-funded projects at CERN’s Scientific Information Service and in higher education institutions across the UK.

In her current role, Patricia focuses on co-developing processes and documentation that support the collaborative work of a remote, globally distributed team. She also leads OLS’s consultancy work on designing and running mentorship programmes.

Sara is a researcher with more than 10 years of experience in experimental and computational resarch in healthcare (cancer and neuroscience genomics). She is a natural problem solver, and thrives working collaboratively and including different disciplines and actors into her and other’s research.

Sara’s collaborative nature has led her to work as a Community manager for different scientific communities, like The Turing Way (shere she is part of the CM workign group), DSxHE and OLS (ADD LINKS!!). Her love for continuous improvement drives her training work, where she is working on bringing open science skills to diverse actors and projects.

Sarah Gibson is a highly skilled software developer and cloud infrastructure engineer with a strong track record of enabling open, data-driven research at scale. With 6+ years of experience at the intersection of technology, research, and education—spanning a pioneering tech nonprofit and a leading national institute for data science and AI—Sarah brings both deep technical expertise and a passion for collaboration.

She specialises in designing and deploying cloud-based solutions that empower researchers to tackle complex, data-intensive challenges. Her work accelerates scientific discovery by making cutting-edge tools more accessible, scalable, and reproducible. An active contributor to the open-source community, Sarah champions open science practices and builds infrastructure that ensures research outputs are reusable and transparent.

Yo is the Executive Director and co-founder of OLS , a Software Sustainability Institute Fellow , NASA grantee, member of the board of directors of The Carpentries .

Yo’s research focuses on qualitative and mixed-method studying human factors in research software and open communities, with a particular interest around finding better ways to understand what makes the humans and communities harmonious and long-lived, with strong wellbeing for the community members.

Previous roles include editor for the PLOS Open Source Toolkit , Codefirst:Girls coding instructor, Research Software Alliance steering committee member, Mozilla volunteer, editor emeritus for the Journal of Open Source Software , board member of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation , and software developer at working on an open source biological data warehouse called InterMine , based at the University of Cambridge.