Dario Taraborelli
Fellow at Renaissance Philanthropy
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDario Taraborelli is an open science leader and founder with over two decades of experience building programs, funding strategies, and communities that make scientific knowledge and tools openly accessible. Currently directing the Open Source for Science Fund at Renaissance Philanthropy and serving as a fellow shaping coordinated investments for open-source infrastructure, he has stewarded more than $130M in philanthropic funding for platforms and tools that accelerate reproducible, collaborative research. Previously he led research at the Wikimedia Foundation and built the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Open Science portfolio, supporting hundreds of projects worldwide to expand participation and transparent knowledge sharing. Trained as a behavioral and computational scientist with a PhD from EHESS and a background in philosophy of science, he blends rigorous academic research with practical philanthropic strategy. Notably, he co-authored the Altmetrics Manifesto and helped found the Initiative for Open Citations, signaling his long-standing influence on how research impact and openness are measured and sustained.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Cognitive Science, PhD, Cognitive Science at EHESS - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences SocialesLicenza, Humanities, Licenza, Humanities at Scuola Normale SuperioreMA, Philosophy of Science, MA, Philosophy of Science at Università di Pisa
English, Italian, French, German, Dutch, Spanish
Stackoverflow
335reputation
37kreached
1answer
6questions
Github Skills (60)
linked-open-data10
wikipedia10
rails-app10
latex10
sparql10
scientific-publications9
citations9
ruby9
rails9
ruby-on-rails9
wikidata9
bibtex9
gerrit8
bibliography8
mediawiki8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wikimedia-research/landing-page
Nov 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:9 PRs, 189 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
wikiwikimedia
wpoa/Wikipedia-Cite-o-Meter
Sep 2011 - Sep 2014
Contributions:51 commits in 3 years
wikimediacitationswikidatawikipediameasures
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