Gary Saunders

Gary Saunders

WP1 will focus on coordinating EOSC Competence Centres from each of the RI Clusters, looking to link similar efforts to bring European researchers closer to the work and services offered by EOSC.


Role:

Co-Lead of OSCARS’ Work Package 1 -
Cluster Open Science Competence Centres (CLOCC).
Representing EATRIS-ERIC and the Life-Sciences RIs Cluster.

Affiliation:

EATRIS

Team:

Executive Board

Contacts:


Short bio

Gary Saunders is the EATRIS Director of Digital Transformation. He leads the EATRIS data strategy over the next scientific programme (2023-26). As part of this work, Gary will lead the EATRIS core data team and work with key data-focused initiatives such as the Horizon Europe Mission Areas, European Open Science Cloud, and the 1+ Million Genomes.

Gary joined EATRIS from ELIXIR where he was the Human Data Coordinator responsible for implementing the ELIXIR-wide strategy to enable responsible sharing of human data consented to reuse in scientific research. Previous to ELIXIR Gary was based at EMBL-EBI where he was the data manager for the European Variation Archive (EVA), and the Database of Genomics Variants Archive (DGVa). Gary has a PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of Glasgow, UK, and has a background in comparative genomics.