Dave Fearon received his Masters of Library and Information Studies degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an emphasis in informatics and data curation. He also has a PhD. in Sociology from U.C. Santa Barbara, specializing in sociolinguistics and organizations.

Chen Chiu received her PhD in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science from the University of Maryland, College Park. Chen was a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins before joining the team and her research was about echolocating and flight behavior of bats.

Reid Boehm received a PhD. in Information Science from the University of Tennessee where he studied government information on socially complex problems. Prior to joining the Data Management Services group, Reid was a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Notre Dame where he investigated data management and curation needs for the sciences and social sciences.

Betsy Gunia received her Master of Science in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois, with a concentration in data curation. She also holds an M.S. from the University of Nevada-Reno in natural resources and environmental science where she studied the effects of tree canopy cover and prescribed fire on the soil seed bank. Prior to starting a family, she worked full-time as a data management consultant for JHUDMS.

Mara Blake is the Manager of the Data Services group at the Sheridan Libraries and Museums of Johns Hopkins University, which includes the Data Management Services and Geographic Information System (GIS) groups. She received her MS from the University of Illinois in Information Science.

G. Sayeed Choudhury is the Associate Dean for Research Data Management and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University. He leads the Data Management Directorate which includes Data Management Services, GIS and IT Infrastructure and applications. See Sayeed’s full biography here.