Grassroots Initiatives

Lamis is the Director of Training and Resource Development at the African Reproducibility Network (AREN). She is a pharmaceutical chemist and lecturer at the University of Khartoum in Sudan, where her research focuses on drug discovery for neglected tropical diseases.

She is an active advocate for open science, advancing reproducibility, transparency, and equitable access to research across Africa. She designs and leads open science training programs, builds networks of early-career researchers, and contributes to policy discussions shaping open and responsible research practices.

Lamis currently serves as Co-Chair of Working Group 2 of the Open Science Monitoring Initiative (OSMI), is a PREreview Champion, and an ASAPbio Fellow. As a displaced Sudanese scientist, she is committed to ensuring that researchers in fragile and low-resource settings remain visible, connected, and able to contribute meaningfully to global science.

Sophia Crüwell co-founded ReproducibiliTea in 2018, together with Amy Orben and Sam Parsons. She is interested in all things Open and reproducible science, and has worked on these topics deeply from both a metascientific and a philosophical perspective.

Having finished her PhDs, she is now a trainee academic librarian (Bibliotheksreferendarin) at the University Library in Frankfurt, where she focuses on research services, particularly research data management and Open Access.

Adira Daniel is a PhD Candidate in Social, Personality, and Developmental Psychology at Western University, where her research focuses on close relationships, intergroup differences, and relationship maintenance, alongside diverse methodological interests — including qualitative and mixed-methods research, reflexivity, research rigor, and ultimately making open science more accessible and equitable for researchers and communities.

Adira is also Co-Director of FORRT’s Community & Sustainability Research Pillar, where she contributes to work advancing open, transparent, reproducible, and inclusive research practices.

Tim Fellows is a product manager specialising in research support systems and scholarly communications. Prior to his work on the Octopus platform, Tim has worked on clinical trials training, human tissue banking, ethics review, equipment data and journal usage statistics platforms.

In his work on the Octopus platform Tim hopes to support a change in the researcher incentives structure to provide greater recognition and reward for the sharing of methods, data and other outputs that do not currently see sufficient focus.