David Mellor
Senior Policy Analyst at Center for Open Science
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Mellor is a Senior Policy Analyst with 11 years of experience shaping incentives and policy frameworks that promote transparency, reproducibility, and rigorous methods across the scientific ecosystem. Based at the Center for Open Science, he has led initiatives from TOP guidelines to institutional policy implementation, translating evidence-based practices like data sharing and preregistration into actionable requirements for journals and funders. His background as a Ph.D. ecologist and former undergraduate program director gives him a rare combination of deep research experience, pedagogy, and project management that informs pragmatic policy design. He excels at identifying the incentives that drive researcher behavior and redesigning systems so good scientific practices are rewarded.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ecology and Evolution, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ecology and Evolution at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New BrunswickBachelor's degree, Biology, Bachelor's degree, Biology at William & Mary
Github Skills (20)
javascript10
python10
django10
django-rest-framework10
science10
open-science9
creative-commons9
cycle8
open-access7
metadata6
data-set6
open-data5
elasticsearch4
machine-learning2
crowdsourcing2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
evomellor/centerforopenscience.org
May 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:3 PRs, 158 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
evomellor/OSF-Curriculum
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 comments in 9 days
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