Our People

We are a collaborative team of interdisciplinary scholars and educators, with a vast range of expertise and interest in data-intensive research and teaching, research data management and infrastructure, scholarly publishing, and digital humanities. For consultations and seminar requests, please email us at crdds@colorado.edu.

Center Staff

Ryan Caillet

Institutional Repository Program Manager, University Libraries

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Areas of Expertise:
- Institutional repository (CU Scholar)
- Open journal hosting

Digital Scholarship Librarian, University Libraries

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Areas of Expertise:
- Digital humanities
- Humanities data
- Text mining
- Digital scholarship
- Digital/data carework

Ellery Galvin

Statistics Specialist, Applied Mathematics, University Libraries

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Dylan Gottlieb

Cloud Analyst, Research Computing

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Mohal Khandelwal

Cloud Analyst, Research Computing

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Andy Monaghan

Research Computing Analyst, Research Computing

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Areas of Expertise:
- High-performance computing
- Atmospheric Science / Climate modeling
- Public Health

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Data Librarian, University Libraries

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Areas of Expertise
- Research data management
- Data management & sharing plans (DMPs & DMSPs)
- Licenses for datasets and code
- Data documentation

Kim Popetz

Events & Outreach Coordinator, University Libraries

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Areas of Expertise:
- Exhibit design
- Scheduling
- Communications

Data Librarian, University Libraries

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Areas of Expertise:
- Research data management
- Data management & sharing plans (DMPs & DMSPs)
- Data documentation

John Reiland

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Research Computing Analyst, Research Computing

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Areas of Expertise: 
- Software development
- Computer science education
- UNIX administration

Brandon Reyes

Research Computing Analyst, Research Computing

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Areas of Expertise: 
- Python
- GitHub and Git
- Computational methods
- Parallelization of code
- Software installations

Michael Schneider

Research Computing Analyst, Research Computing

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Areas of Expertise
- Computer science education
- Data processing and visualization

Center Initiative Directors

Center Director for Open Scholarship; Scholarly Communication Librarian, University Libraries

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Areas of Expertise:
- Scholarly communication
- Open access
- Copyright
- Fair use
- Open educational resources

Layla Freeborn

Center Director for Research Computing, Associate Director of Research Computing User Services

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Center Director of Research Data Management; Lead, Data and Scholarly Communication Services, University Libraries

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Areas of Expertise:
- Research data management
- Data sharing
- Data repositories
- Scholarly communication

Barb Schnell

Center Director for Secure Research Computing Services; Associate Director of Secure Research and Computing

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Areas of Expertise:
- Securing Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) in Cloud Infrastructure
- IT Policies, Processes and Procedures needed to meet NIST 800-171 controls
- Research facilitation for CUI

Center Executive Directors

Center Executive Director; Assistant Vice Chancellor; Director of Research Computing

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Center Executive Director, University Libraries

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Areas of Expertise:
- Data-intensive research
- Interdisciplinary team research
- Open scholarship
- Digital humanities

Executive Board

Dean of University Libraries

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Associate Dean for Research, Professor, Mechanical Engineering

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Associate Vice Chancellor for IT and CIO

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