Cassandra Van Praag
Executive Director at Open Research Calendar
South Hams, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCassandra Van Praag is an executive leader and community strategist with seven years’ experience building open research ecosystems at the intersection of data science, AI and environmental sustainability. As Executive Director and Co-Founder of RCM Cooperative and founder of the Open Research Calendar, she has scaled community-driven infrastructure that now catalogs thousands of events and sustains an active subscriber base. At the Alan Turing Institute and University of Oxford she translated open-science principles into operational practice—designing stakeholder maps, community strategies, reproducible workflows and tooling for climate and brain-imaging research. She combines academic rigour from a PhD in cognitive neuroscience with hands-on product delivery, including reusable Python analysis pipelines and cross-platform research software. Notably, she focuses on practical governance and inclusive documentation to make complex research communities more discoverable and sustainably engaged.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Informatics Cognitive Neuroscience and fMRI, PhD Informatics Cognitive Neuroscience and fMRI at University of Sussex
Github Skills (40)
data-science10
machine-learning10
transparency10
science10
mri10
user-friendly9
open-science9
stable9
neuroimaging9
bids9
jekyll9
versioning9
version-control9
github-enterprise8
css7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cassgvp/github-for-collaborative-documentation
Sep 2020 - Nov 2020
Repo for practicing contributing to other people's documentation and creating your own with GitHub Pages
Contributions:2 releases, 152 commits, 37 PRs in 1 month
practicingjekyll
cassgvp/the-turing-way
May 2019 - Jun 2024
Host repository for The Turing Way: a how to guide for reproducible data science
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
how-to-guidesciencehostdata-sciencemachine-learning
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