Confirmed instructors, listed alphabetical by last name.

  • Julien Brun, Earth & Environmental Sciences Research Facilitator

    Brun is the Earth & Environmental Sciences Research Facilitator in the Research Data Services department at the UCSB Library. Julien helps researchers to make their research more collaborative and reproducible focusing on promoting data management and programming best / good enough practices. Julien's scientific expertise is in ecohydrology, Earth observation techniques (remote sensing and GIS), and process-based modeling.

  • Renata Curty, Social Science Research Facilitator

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  • Greg Janeé, Director of Research Data Services

    Greg Janée is Director of Research Data Services at the UCSB Library. His background is in software engineering, digital libraries, research data management, geospatial data, and general data wrangling and processing.

  • Xiuqi "Jade" Li, Open Science Librarian

    Xiuqi "Jade" Li, is the Open Science Librarian and subject librarian for MCDB, EEMB, and BioEngineering. She promotes open science principles and practices across the research lifecycle, from data to dissemination. Trained as a biomedical scientist at Yale University and an educator at Harvard Medical School, she brings a practitioner’s perspective to emerging trends in research data and scholarly communication.

  • Jairo Melo Florez, Digital Humanities Research Facilitator

    Jairo Melo is the Digital Humanities Research Facilitator in the Research Data Services department at the UCSB Library. He supports digital scholarship and computationally engaged research in the humanities, with a focus on research data architecture, curation, and reproducible workflows. Trained as a historian with extensive experience in digital humanities and backend development, his work centers on archival data infrastructures, relational database design, and computational approaches to cultural heritage sources.