Heidi Seibold

I am an entrepreneur in Open and Reproducible Data Science. I co-founded the Digital Research Academy and ondatix.

My research has been at the intersection of Data Science, Reproducibility and Medicine. I studied statistics and did my PhD in Biostatistics with a focus on Machine Learning.

I strongly believe that Open Science is the way we should do science.

I am happiest when on a bicycle :bike: or on a hike.

How I became an entrepreneur

I was struggling to be an Open Science ambassador and a researcher at the same time. It was impossible for me to follow the rules I was trying to change, so I quit my job as a researcher and committed my professional life to improving the way we do research, working as an Open Science trainer and consultant.

Over time this work became too much for one person. As someone who had always been involved in communities, creating a community of trainers seemed like the clear next step – and it soon became the Digital Research Academy. Today we are a small core team managing things in the background and enabling others to improve the quality of research through training, and the network keeps growing. We have run so many trainings and workshops – it is one of my proudest achievements.

Since 2023 I have been involved in ADA (Angewandte Datenanalyse für die öffentliche Verwaltung), a project on data science for the public sector, where we support public servants in solving problems with data. ADA builds prototypes. At some point we decided that we wanted to go beyond prototypes and build open source software that fixes these problems for the long term. That idea has now turned into ondatix.

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