Andrew Sallans received master’s degrees in Library and Information Studies and in the Management of Information Technology and has been working on supporting research data issues for over 10 years, originally in the geographic information systems and archaeology area. Since that time, he has moved onto scientific data problems with researchers in environmental sciences, biology, engineering, and numerous other areas. Andrew spent nearly 10 years in the University of Virginia Libraries in various roles, in each case building and managing services and teams to provide support for data management in academic research. During this time, he also held leadership roles among a number of multi-institutional research data projects, including the DMPTool (http://dmptool.org) and the DataONE Users Group (http://dataone.org). In his current role, he is passionate about how entrepreneurship, innovation, and building partnerships can influence the changing research landscape.
