Congratulations to Unit postdoctoral researcher Dr Shenghong He on winning the Director’s Award for Open Research for 2021.

The Award is given annually, on the basis of nominations made by Unit members, to recognise and celebrate the exemplary contributions of an individual or small collective to the Unit’s Open Research activities. The Award also reflects diverse contributions to Open Research, from the sharing of data, code, experimental protocols and materials, to the promotion of best practice and the provision of enabling infrastructure.

Shenghong’s Award was announced by Unit Interim Director Professor Peter Magill at the Unit’s Winter Science Day last week. Professor Magill commented “It is a great pleasure to recognise and reward Shenghong in this way. Shenghong showed great personal initiative in curating and sharing three distinct resources that are related to his recent publications, even though the host journals did not require him to do this. The Committee was particularly impressed by Shenghong’s use of the Unit’s Data Sharing Platform to disseminate complete original datasets with matching code that together allow users to replicate the results/figures documented in his papers. An excellent approach to promoting reuse and reproducibility.”