Mark Hahnel
Mark Hahnel is the VP Open Research at Digital Science. He is the founder of Figshare, which he created while completing his PhD in stem cell biology at Imperial College London. Figshare currently provides research data infrastructure for institutions, publishers and funders globally. He is passionate about open science and the potential it has to revolutionize the research community. Mark sits on the board of DataCite and the advisory board for Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). He was on the judging panel for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Wellcome Trust Open Science prize and acted as an advisor for the Springer Nature master classes.
Articles by Mark Hahnel
Fragmentation in research data publishing – and how to fix it
The landscape of open research data is ever-evolving, driven by the relentless advancement of technology and the burgeoning expectations of a data-driven society. This piece navigates research data publication fragmentation, elucidating how the principles of Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable (FAIR) data - are pivotal in this context. FAIR data was a term coined in 2016 that has gained global traction.
Who benefits when, from FAIR data? Part 2
In the second part of this three-part series on artificial intelligence, machine learning and open research, Mark Hahnel takes a look into how this technology can actually result in better, more diverse, more inclusive and ultimately FAIR-er data for the whole research community.
Seven million open research objects and counting – a conversation with Figshare founder Mark Hahnel
On April 13th 2023, Mark tweeted that Figshare had reached seven million outputs, a significant milestone in anyone’s book! He and I jumped on a quick call to discuss what that achievement means for Figshare, and before we knew it our chat had meandered onto what it was like in the very early days of Figshare and Overleaf, and how milestones and celebrations change as the numbers keep going up and to the right! :)
We hope you enjoy where the conversation takes us.