Mercè Crosas

Since November 2023 she is President of CODATA, the Committee on Data of the International Science Council.

From 2000 to 2004, she worked outside of Harvard at a pair of biotech startups leading software development teams to build their research data systems.

[2] During her time at Harvard University, Crosas worked closely with research, computing services, and libraries to direct the management and publication of research data and provide guidance on University policies, processes, and tools for support the data life cycle.

The Dataverse software project has been used successfully to share and publish data at universities and research organizations around the world.

Since 2023, she has led the Computational Social Sciences Program at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.