Merce Crosas
President Of CODATA at Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolMerce Crosas is a seasoned data and research infrastructure leader with 19 years of experience bridging academia, government, and international science policy. Currently President of CODATA and Director of the Computational Social Sciences and Humanities Lab at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, she specializes in research data management, open science, and computational methods that scale across disciplines. Her long tenure at Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science — including roles as Chief Data Science and Technology Officer and Research Data Management Officer — reflects deep expertise in building sustainable data services and governance for large research communities. She also served as Secretària de Govern Obert for Generalitat de Catalunya, bringing practical public-sector open-data implementation experience to global data policy conversations. Trained as an astrophysicist (PhD, Rice University), she combines rigorous scientific thinking with hands-on technology leadership, often translating complex technical infrastructures into actionable policy and operational programs. Less obvious: her career trajectory shows a rare blend of day-to-day technical stewardship and high-level international coordination, making her a go-to leader where science, technology, and policy intersect.
19 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astrophysics at Rice UniversityPre-Doctoral Fellow, Astrophysics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Astrophysics and Atomic and Molecular Physics at Harvard UniversityBachelor's degree in Physics, Bachelor's degree in Physics at Universitat de Barcelona
Catalan, Spanish
Github Skills (31)
dataverse10
simulation9
data-repository9
regression-models9
linear-models9
statistics8
visualization8
open-data6
python6
doi5
data-catalog3
science3
metadata3
data-science2
meta2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
IQSS/dvn
Jun 2007 - Nov 2008
Contributions:515 commits in 1 year 5 months
dataversenewerdistinctbase-code
IQSS/Zelig
Feb 2015 - May 2017
A statistical framework that serves as a common interface to a large range of models
Contributions:3 pushes, 6 comments, 10 issues in 2 years 2 months
statisticspythonregression-modelslinear-modelsstatistical
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