EUNIS24 Congress

Speaker

Laurents Sesink Laurents Sesink SURF
Laurents Sesink has a broad background in Open Science and is currently (2022) strategic relationship manager in the core team innovation at SURF. In this role he is involved in EOSC related activities, and he is the lead of the FAIRdata roadmap of the innovation zone Open Science. Laurents studied history at Utrecht University and historical information science (Digital Humanities) at Leiden University and began his career (1995) at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences where he was involved in open access, data management, digital longevity, Digital Humanities, Research Infrastructures and EC funded projects to foster data management, develop interoperability standards for scholarly communication and build technical infrastructures to enable Data Science. Laurents joined in 2014 Leiden University where he became head of the new Centre for Digital Scholarship (CDS). The central objective of CDS is to support and facilitate digital scholarship within Leiden University, in close collaboration with other centres of expertise, with research institutes and with national and international research support organisations.