Dryad’s members are part of a non-profit, shared community working together to promote data publishing, curation, and preservation. The community benefits from Dryad’s services designed specifically for the Member community. Our community is open to a full spectrum of stakeholder organizations including universities, research institutions and academic libraries. Learn about joining us as a member organization.

Academic and research institutions

• Australian Wine Research Institute
• California State University, East Bay
• Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
• Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
• Claremont College Services (TCCS)
• Claremont Graduate University
• Claremont McKenna College
• Colorado State University
• Columbia University in the City of New York
• Desert Research Institute
• Georgetown University
• Grand Valley State University
• Harvey Mudd College
• Keck Graduate Institute
• King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Macalester College
• Macquarie University
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Michigan State University
• Montana State University
• Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)
• New Mexico State University
• New York Institute of Technology
• North Carolina State University
• Northeast Ohio Medical University
• Northwestern University
• Pitzer College
• Pomona College
• SUNY Buffalo State University
• SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
• SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
• SUNY Polytechnic Institute
• Scripps College
• Stanford University, Lane Medical Library
• State University of New York College at Geneseo
• State University of New York at Brockport
• State University of New York at Fredonia
• Stony Brook University
• Temple University
• Texas Tech University
• The Ohio State University
• The Rockefeller University
• The University of British Columbia
• The University of Sheffield
• University at Buffalo
• University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
• University of California, Berkeley
• University of California, Davis
• University of California, Irvine
• University of California, Los Angeles
• University of California, Merced
• University of California, Office of the President
• University of California, Riverside
• University of California, San Diego
• University of California, San Francisco
• University of California, Santa Barbara
• University of California, Santa Cruz
• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• University of Maryland, College Park
• University of Minnesota
• University of Nevada, Reno
• University of New Mexico
• University of New South Wales, Sydney
• University of Oklahoma
• University of Oregon
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Rochester
• University of Washington
• University of Wisconsin–Madison
• Victoria University, Melbourne
• Yale University

Publishing organizations

• The Alliance of Crop, Soil and Environmental Science Societies
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• American Chemical Society
• American Genetic Association
• American Ornithological Society
• American Society of Plant Taxonomists
• Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation
• British Ecological Society
• Cambridge University Press
• Canadian Science Publishing
• Ecological Society of America
• eLife
• European Respiratory Society
• European Society for Evolutionary Biology
• Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
• Federation of European Biochemical Societies
• Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• International Society for Behavioral Ecology
• John Wiley & Sons, Inc
• Nordic Society Oikos
• Oxford University Press
• The Palaeontological Association
• The Paleontological Society
• PLOS
• Rockefeller University Press
• Royal Entomological Society
• The Royal Society
• Society for the Study of Evolution
• Society of Systematic Biologists

Dryad is a not-for-profit membership organization, recognized as a 501(c)3 by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Dryad members nominate and elect the Board of Directors, twelve individuals from the stakeholder community who provide strategic planning, fiscal oversight, and oversee the position of the Executive Director. Members also approve any amendments to the organization’s bylaws, have the opportunity to steer policies and features, and are kept abreast of emerging issues in data publishing. Dryad Board terms rotate in October every year.

Our Code of conduct applies for all Dryad community spaces.

Current board members

Andrew Beckerman (2022-2025)

is a Professor of Evolutionary Ecology at the University of Sheffield where he collaborates with his team on questions about the impacts of climate and environmental change on biodiversity. They are passionate and curious about the landscape of open science. He is on the University of Sheffield School of Bioscience Executive Board and has recently been appointed to the University Council Finance Committee. Andrew has been co- Editor-in-Chief for the Wiley Open Access journal Ecology and Evolution for over 10 years. He has provided strategic contributions to the British Ecological Society for more than a decade as former Chair of Meetings and member of the Management Board and more recently via the Publications committee. Andew is also currently the Chair of Governors for a local primary school providing strategic support to the senior leadership team on finance, infrastructure and curriculum.

Jake Carlson (2023-2026)

is the Associate University Librarian for Research, Collections and Outreach at the University at Buffalo (UB) Libraries. His responsibilities include increasing the capabilities of the UB Libraries to respond to researchers’ needs with managing, sharing and preserving their research data. Dryad will be a critical resource in the Libraries’ research data services program. Previously, he has been the Director of Deep Blue Repository and Research Data Services at the University of Michigan and a Data Services Specialist at Purdue University. Carlson has authored or co-authored more than 30 articles on research data services in libraries. His work has been supported by funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

Bekah Darksmith (2023-2026)

joined PLOS as its Chief Marketing & Communications Officer in February 2018 to lead strategic development and management of outreach, marketing, and communications. Over the past 20 years, she has worked across academic, not‐for‐profit, and commercial publishing markets, with the bulk of her career spent at the University of California Press in progressively senior roles. Bekah most recently served UC Press in a dual capacity. As its Deputy Director, she developed strategy and oversaw operations for all revenue-generating functions within the organization — marketing, sales, rights and licensing as well as fundraising. As the Executive Director of the UC Press Foundation, she was responsible for driving philanthropic support for UC Press through engagement with its Board of Trustees and administration of the organization’s endowment.

Barbara Ebert (2022-2025)

is Executive Secretary, German Federation for Biological Data e.V. (GFBio). GFBio e.V. is a non-profit association founded in 2016 as the legal entity for the sustainable operation of data services in Biodiversity research. It is active in the recently founded National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) in Germany. Starting October 2020 we are building a coordination team for the NFDI4BioDiversity consortium, and a pool of IT developers to mobilise data available at the partner organisations and feed them into a common data infrastructure.

Scott Edmunds (2022-2025)

is Editor-in-Chief for GigaScience, a self-proclaimed data nerd, and an Executive Committee member for Open Data Hong Kong. He has co-founded Citizen Science organisations Bauhinia Genome and CitizenScience.Asia and also teaches data management and curation at Hong Kong University. His academic background includes training in Biochemistry at Imperial College and a PhD on the Molecular Pathology of Ocular Melanoma at the Royal London Hospital, where his research mainly focused on Cancer Cell and Molecular Biology. After postdoctoral positions on Cancer Molecular Pathology at the WHO International Agency for Research in Cancer in Lyon and Institute of Cell and Molecular Sciences in London (Queen Mary) he was senior scientific editor for the BMC Genomics and Bioinformatics journals at BioMed Central before moving in 2010 to Shenzhen/Hong Kong to set up the GigaScience journal and GigaDB database for the BGI (the world’s largest genomic organisation). Working with the British Library and DataCite, GigaScience published its first data (the genome of the deadly German outbreak strain of E. coli) in June 2011.

Brooks Hanson (2022-2025)

serves as the Executive Vice President for Science for the American Geophysical Union (AGU). He’s responsible for overseeing AGU’s publications, meetings, and ethics programs and Thriving Earth Exchange and coordinating science activities across these. He served previously as Sr. Vice President for Publications at AGU, responsible for AGU’s portfolio of many books and 20 journals and their editorial operations, helping set overall editorial policies, and leading future developments. Before arriving at AGU, he served as the Deputy Editor for Physical Sciences at Science and earlier as an editor at Science. Brooks has a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA and held a post-doctoral appointment at the Department of Mineral Sciences, Smithsonian Institution. His main areas or research and publications span the tectonics of the western U.S., metamorphic petrology, modeling magmatic and hydrothermal processes, and on scholarly publishing. He is a fellow of the Geological Society of American and Mineralogical Society of America.

Devika Madalli (2022-2025)

is a Professor of the Documentation Research and Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institute (faculty since 1996), India and Adjunct faculty, DISI, University of Trento, Italy. Her interest lies in the area of OERs and Educational resources repositories, Open Data Repositories and Data Management, Knowledge Organization and application of facetization in Information Systems, Information Infrastructures, Digital Libraries, Semantic Web technologies, Faceted Ontologies, Content Management System, Agrisemantics, multilingual information services. She is a member of the Karnataka Evaluation Authority(KEA). Dr.Madalli has extensive experience in capacity building, training on e-learning, MOOCs (moodle) and digital repositories. Dr. Madalli is a member of the Technical Advisory Board of Research Data Alliance and Prof.Madalli is a founding member of and served as the co-chair of the Agriculture Data Interest Group [IGAD], Research Data Alliance [RDA][2013-2016] and present co-chair of the Global Research Commons and RDA for UNSDGs Interest groups.

Jenny Muilenburg (2023-2026)

is the Research Data Services Librarian at University of Washington Libraries. In addition to leading the Libraries Data Services Team and facilitating the integration of research data support throughout UW schools and departments, Jenny also works with campus partners to create education and outreach around funder development and mandates. She promotes collaboration and substantive partnerships with administration and other departments to enhance campuswide research support services. She is a past ARL Visiting Program Officer for Research Data, and a current institutional representative for HELIOS.

Ian Mulvany (2021-2024)

is CTO at BMJ where he leads teams that deliver the technologies and features that underpin new products as well as underlying publishing systems. He is responsible for leading on technology strategy for the company and understanding the implications of new and emerging technologies for the business. Previously he helped set up SAGE’s methods innovation incubator SAGE Ocean following a lean product development approach. Prior to SAGE he ran technology operations for eLife, was head of product for Mendeley and ran a number of early web2.0 products for Nature Publishing Group. Over that time he has gained a breadth of experience of modern product management practice, software engineering practice, program management and a deep understanding of the technical underpinnings of many scholarly communication systems. He collaborated in defining the extensions to the NLM DTD required to support software citation and was also one of the original organising members of the Altmetrics conference series that started in 2014.

Daniel Potter (2023-2026)

is Professor of Plant Sciences at UC Davis, where he has been a faculty member since 1996. His research and teaching interests are focused on angiosperm systematics (phylogeny, evolution, and taxonomy of flowering plants) and ethnobotany (the study of direct relationships between people and plants). Dan grew up in a rural area of the Hudson Valley of New York State where his interests in biology were fostered by walks in the woods around their house, parents who were avid gardeners and nature lovers, and the influence of several excellent teachers in elementary and high school. His specific interests in botany developed and solidified during his years as an undergraduate at Harvard (1978-1982) and a PhD student at Cornell (1984-1991), again due in no small part to several inspirational professors. Dan currently serves as director of the UC Davis herbarium, member of the board of directors of the Davis Botanical Society, president of the Yolo-Colusa Chapter of the California Native Plant Society, and editor-in-chief of Systematic Botany, the professional journal of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists.

Mona Ramonetti (2023-2026)

is the Interim Associate Dean for Library Technologies, Discovery and Digital Services at Stony Brook University in New York. She manages a team of library technology faculty and staff in creating, implementing and overseeing the technology initiatives and infrastructure that support the Stony Brook University Library community. She also leads and manages policy, planning and implementation for Scholarly Communications initiatives that include data management, scholarly publishing, open educational resources, among others. She has chaired and served on numerous national and international committees and working groups such as FORCE 11, COAPI and SPARC. In addition to her role in promoting and sustaining an academic environment of openness and accessibility, she has demonstrated a strong commitment to advancing diversity, inclusion, equity and social justice within the academic environment. She has chaired and served on DEI committees and task forces where she creates and promotes spaces to address discrimination and inequity while fostering a culture of inclusivity and social justice. Outside of her academic work and accomplishments, she enjoys tennis, gardening and spending time with her husband, daughter, son and three dogs (Emma Wheatgerm, Punkin Chubacca and Nova Argentina).

Jason Williams (2023-2026)

is Assistant Director, External Collaborations at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory DNA Learning Center where he develops national biology education programs. Jason leads education, outreach, and training for CyVerse (US national cyberinfrastructure for the life sciences) and has trained thousands of students, researchers and educators in bioinformatics, data science, and molecular biology. Jason’s focus has been developing bioinformatics in undergraduate education and career-spanning learning for biologists. Jason’s “Reinventing Scientific Talent” proposal was a winning entry in the US National Science Foundation’s NSF 2026 Idea Machine search for the next set of “Big Ideas”; proposals that will shape funding priorities for the foundation. Jason is founder of LifeSciTrainers.org – a global effort to promote community of practice among professionals who develop short-format training for life scientists. Jason is also a member of and has chaired science advisory boards in the US, UK, and Australia, and is a former chair of the Software Carpentry Foundation. In 2020, Jason was recognized as a US National Academy of Sciences Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow. Jason is also a teacher at the Yeshiva University High School for Girls.

Board information

• Dryad produces annual reports on the state of the organization's operations.
• Dryad board maintains meeting minutes for all of its meetings.
• Dryad board conflict of interest forms

Past board members

We’d like to thank all the talented individuals who have dedicated their time and expertise to the Dryad board of directors for at least one term from 2012 to 2024:

Lynn Baird, Theo Bloom,* Emilio Bruna, Ingrid Dillo, Lee Dirks, Alf Eaton, Martin Fenner, Liz Ferguson,* Chuck Fox, Simon Hodson,* Brian Hole, Kristi Holmes, Marcel Holyoak,* Wolfram Horstmann, Brian Lavoie,* Jennifer Lin, Catriona MacCallum, Paolo Mangiafico, Bill Michener, Allen Moore,* Fiona Murphy, Johan Nilsson, Naomi Penfold, Iratxe Puebla, Allen Rodrigo, Judy Ruttenberg, Susanna Assunta Sansone,* Eefke Smit,* Kevin Smith, Carly Strasser, Caroline Sutton, Carol Tenopir, Paul Uhlir, Günter Waibel, Mike Whitlock,* and Todd Vision* (Dryad’s founding PI and long-serving Board member).

* Founding Board members, 2012.

Our team applies their diverse backgrounds in scientific research, librarianship, non-profits, business administration, publishing, and computer science to support open data infrastructure and the preservation of knowledge. To reach us, contact help@datadryad.org.

Head office

Jennifer Gibson

Executive Director
Jen joined Dryad as Executive Director in October 2021. Since 2005, she has worked with scientists, funders, publishers, libraries, developers and others to explore fresh paths toward accelerating discovery through open research communication and open-technology innovation. Prior to Dryad, Jennifer was Head of Open Research Communication for eLife, a non-profit and research funder-backed initiative to transform science publishing. She is a former Chair of the Board of Directors for OASPA (2020-2022) and a former member of the board for FORCE11 (2018-2020). Learn more about Jen at LinkedIn.

Maria Guerreiro

Head of Partnership Development
Maria is an open science enthusiast who enjoys working collaboratively with researchers and other stakeholders in scholarly communication to drive positive change. Maria joins Dryad after more than ten years in academic publishing, primarily at the not-for-profit and open-access journal eLife, where she was Head of Journal Development and worked closely with scientists, research organizations and funding agencies in the biomedical and life sciences space in initiatives to drive growth, foster community engagement and promote best practices in peer review and scientific publishing. At Dryad, Maria helps grow the community of academic and research institutions, research funders, journals and publishers that invest in us to pursue the open sharing and full reuse of all research data.

Jess Herzog

Head of Publishing Services
Jess has over 20 years of experience in scientific publishing and publications management. Prior to joining Dryad, she worked for Public Library of Science (PLOS) and Elsevier in various roles related to journal management, system design and training, and customer relations.

Ryan Scherle

Head of Platform Development
Ryan has over 30 years of experience designing and developing systems to manage collections of digital objects. He has been with Dryad since its founding, and has been involved with all aspects of the organization. He has a background in artificial intelligence research, and he believes that the best technology strikes a balance between anticipating what a user needs and allowing the user to remain in control. Ryan also manages technical development for the Covid Information Commons at the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub.

Angelica Del Sette

Administrative Assistant
Angelica is an Executive Assistant with over 15 years working at C-Suite level with experience in banking, pharmaceutical, and venture capital organisations with a particular focus on administration, project management, and MS Office 365. In South Africa, she was involved in implementing software across large organisations, workflow and process management and team administration. During her time in Italy she worked alongside political figures and entrepreneurs assisting with campaigns and business administration. She grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa, and has worked in the Netherlands, Italy and the UK.

Platform development team

Audrey Hamelers

Senior Software Developer
Audrey has many years of experience developing websites and digital repositories related to libraries and to scientific publishing, with previous roles in software development at Europe PMC, PubMed Central, and the University of Delaware Library. She holds a Master's in Library and Information Science from Drexel University. Audrey enjoys reading, traveling, and reading while traveling.

Alin Vetian

Senior Software Developer
Alin has a great experience developing web applications and other digital products. In his previous roles, he has successfully handled data integration from multiple sources, ensuring seamless data flow and consistency. With skills in implementing advanced data visualization techniques he helped transform complex datasets into clear, actionable insights.

Curation team

Laura Bowman

Senior Data Curator II
Laura has a B.S. and M.S. in Accounting from Penn State and worked as a public accountant for several years before transitioning to librarianship. She holds an MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh and has worked in academic and public librarianship, but found her niche in data librarianship. Laura is an avid reader, loves taking walks and exploring new places, and playing with her two cats.

Molly Hirst

Senior Data Curator I
Molly holds a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Michigan, where she studied genomics and sperm biology in hybridizing Platyrrhine primates. She gained extensive experience and a passion for curation as a graduate student curatorial assistant for nearly all UM Museum of Zoology and Herbarium divisions. Molly can be found cuddling her cats, reading, traveling the world as a naturalist, gardening, ice skating, and spoiling her nephew.

Evangeline Janani

Data Curator
Evangeline has a B.Tech in Information Technology. For the last 3 years she has worked in different sectors of the scholarly publishing industry, as a Senior Sales Advisor, an Editorial Quality Analyst, and a Copyeditor, and brings a diverse skill set and experience to data curation. In her spare time, Evangeline enjoys gardening, painting, cooking, and arts & crafts.

Kathiyayini Jayaraman

Data Curator
Kathiyayini holds an M.Sc. in Biochemistry. She has three years of experience as a curator of life science literature and has previously worked for two different companies as a research analyst and scientific analyst. In her role as a scientific analyst, Kathiyayini coordinated interviews, served as a trainer, and oversaw quality control. In her free time, she enjoys pencil drawing, painting, and listening to music.

Jeremy Walter

Data Curator
Jeremy transitioned from a management role in English as a Second Language education in Thailand to technical writing and training coordination roles on various biology-driven projects in the United States. He recently repatriated to California where he helps the UC Davis effort on the NIH Common Fund Data Ecosystem.

Fundraising Advisory Board

• Barbara Ebert, German Federation for Biological Data e.V. (GFBio)
• Brooks Hanson, Retired, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• Jason Williams, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory DNA Learning Center
• Mone Zaidi, Icahn Sinai School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
• Maria Guerreiro, Dryad
• Jen Gibson, Dryad

Strategic Advisory Taskforce

• Andrew Beckerman, University of Sheffield
• Andrea Chiarelli, Research Consulting
• Scott Edmunds, GigaScience
• Monica Granados, Creative Commons
• Ted Habermann, Metadata Game Changers
• Hilmar Lapp, Duke
• Adam Leary, Oxford University Press
• Helena Ledmyr, INCF
• Rory Macneil, Research Space
• Jenny Muilenburg, University of Washington Libraries
• Katherine (Katy) McNeill, Independent
• Ian Mulvany, BMJ
• John Wilbanks, Astera Institute
• Ryan Scherle, Dryad
• Jen Gibson, Dryad

Nominations and Elections Committee

• Kristi Holmes, Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center at Northwestern University
• Devika Madali, Indian Statistical Institute
• Nicolás Palopoli, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes - CONICET & MetaDocencia
• Daniel Potter, UC Davis
• Jen Gibson, Dryad

Code of Conduct Committee

• Jenny Muilenburg, University of Washington Libraries
• Dan Potter, UC Davis
• Malvika Sharan, The Alan Turing Institute
• Jason Williams, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory DNA Learning Center
• Jen Gibson, Dryad

Large Datasets Working Group

• Moira Downey, North Carolina State University
• Shannon Farrell, University of Minnesota
• Julien Brun, University of California Santa Barbara
• Nathan Gerth, University of Nevada Reno
• Matthew Goerg, Amazon
• Ann James, George Washington University
• Zhiwu Xie, University of California Riverside
• Sarah Lippincott, Dryad

Member Model Advisory Group

• Karl Benedict, Retired, University of New Mexico Libraries
• Vicky Johnson, John Wiley and Sons
• Johan Nilsson, Nordic Society Oikos
• Rob O'Donnell, Rockefeller University Press
• Matt Wascavage, Alliance of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Science Societies (ACSESS)
• Jeanine Finn, Claremont Colleges Library
• Shawn Ross, Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)
• Cynthia Hudson Vitale, Association of Research Libraries
• Jen Gibson, Dryad
• Sarah Lippincott, Dryad