Mark Hahnel is the VP Open Research at Digital Science. He is the founder of Figshare, which he created whilst 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 revolutionise the research community. Mark sits on the board of DataCite and the advisory board for Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and re3data. 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.

Imperial College London

Stem Cell Biology PhD '11, Imperial College London

Founder of Figshare

Information Systems

Management Information Systems

Communication

Artificial Intelligence

Statistics, Probability And Uncertainty

Inorganic Chemistry

Genetics

Cell Biology