The 2024 OSCAwards

It is the second time, that the Open Science Community Amsterdam (OSCA) is organizing the OSCAwards. Open Science is an international academic movement that makes scientific knowledge openly available, accessible and reusable for everyone. Do you want to learn about Open Science projects in Amsterdam? During this event, 10 nominations for OSCAwards will be awarded.
Several scientists, researchers, students and teachers will pitch their projects and involvement with Open Science.

Next, several speakers will give a short talk on a crucial aspect of Open Science, engagement within and beyond academia. OSCA invited Imme Ruarus from Waag’s to give a talk about the citizens network for measuring the air quality in North Holland. Laura Luzia will introduce the Pint of Science, a festival aimed to deliver talks on research in an accessible format to the public and Mariana Lanari will talk about Archival Consciousness, an investigation into the world of physical and digital archives.

About the speakers

Alexandra Sarafoglouo is a postdoctoral fellow at the department of Psychological Methods at the University of Amsterdam. Together with Suzanne Hoogeveen, she founded the Open Science Community Amsterdam. During her PhD, she studied open science related research methods with a particular focus on analysis blinding and preregistration. Her research interests include Bayesian inference, and meta-scientific research.

Imme Ruarus is the lead of Waag’s Smart Citizens Lab. She researches how citizens can use technology to take ownership of their living environments. She also focuses on new forms of collaboration between citizens, government and scientists.

Laura Luzia is the city coordinator of Pint of Science Amsterdam, an international festival that brings researchers to local pubs to talk about their latest findings. She did her PhD training at the VU Amsterdam in Microbiology and currently works as a Publisher in Health and Medical Sciences at Elsevier.

Mariana Lanari is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam School of Heritage Memory and Material Culture. She is an artist and researcher with a background in Political Sciences and co-founder of Archival Consciousness. Lanari’s research combines computation ontology and data science with performance art to investigate the mediation between physical and digital collections of cultural libraries and archives.

She is a member of Third cycle Artistic Research of the Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam Research Institute of the Arts and Sciences (ARIAS). Lanari also serves on the board of PrintRoom (Rotterdam), and  DAAP – Digital Archive of Artist Publishing (London). Her work has been broadly exhibited.