NORF are delighted to welcome Dr Chris Burbidge as project manager to our team based at the Royal Irish Academy (RIA). In this role, Chris will support the implementation of Ireland’s National Action Plan for Open Research 2022-2030.

Chris comes to NORF from iCRAG, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre in Applied Geosciences hosted by University College Dublin, where he built new partnerships in datacentric funding areas. These projects, with the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), Géant, HEAnet, the Irish Centre for High End Computing (ICHEC), plus government, university and industry partners, are continuing to address and support development of NORF objectives on culture, access and stewardship, but especially on enabling research outputs, through infrastructure development, which meet the principles of findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability (FAIR).

We look forward to working with Chris in his new role supporting Ireland’s transition to an open research environment.