Nami Sunami is a Data Steward with over eight years of experience improving research infrastructure and advancing open, responsible science across academia and nonprofits. A social psychologist turned software and data practitioner, she helps researchers make their data FAIR, navigates GDPR and ethics questions, and accelerates Open Science adoption at institutions like TU/e and ERIM. She combines advanced statistical and programming skills from a PhD with hands-on engineering experience contributing to tools like ResearchEquals at Liberate Science. Comfortable mentoring and building data pipelines, she brings a rare blend of disciplinary empathy and technical rigor to make research more reproducible and impactful. Off the job she’s a cat owner who brings the same curiosity and care to community-facing projects.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Psychology, Bachelor of Science (BS) Psychology at Saint Louis University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Social Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Social Psychology at University of Delaware
Master of Science (MS) General Experimental Psychology, Master of Science (MS) General Experimental Psychology at Western Illinois University
Nami Sunami's PhD dissertation project, looking into a sense of belonging in playing single-player video games after social rejection
Contributions:1 release, 50 commits, 26 PRs in 1 year 8 months
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