Working Group 20 (WG20) was created by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics in 2022 at the 31st IUPAP General Assembly, that was held (online) in Trieste, Italy. The Working Group on Open Science has the following mission/mandate:

Mission/Mandate

  • Make a recommendation for a strategy to foster a culture of open science and aligning incentives for open science across all disciplines of physics—in particular, lay out the requirements to be put in place, with regards to open science, for IUPAP sponsored and endorsed conferences.
  • Closely follow the implementation of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science and take part in relevant UNESCO Open Science Working Groups to advocate the interest of physics.
  • Survey open science practices in physics and share the findings with the IUPAP commissions.
  • Establish a resource for physics of open science infrastructures, tools, and techniques. Organize a big event on Open Science in the framework of IYBSSD, possibly in Honduras (June 2023).

Members

  • Alex Hansen (Chair), Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Professor of Theoretical Physics and Director of PoreLab. Dr. Hansen’s research interest lay in the intersection between fluid dynamics and statistical mechanics. He currently holds an ERC Advanced Grant (AGIPORE) focused on constructing a statistical mechanics formulation of immiscible two-phase flow in porous media.
  • Xavier Bertou, Irene Joliot-Curie Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis, Orsay. Head of the Direct Dark Matter research team at the Astrophysics, Astroparticle physics and Cosmology Department of IJCLab. Current main scientific project: search for dark matter within the DAMIC-M experiment.
  • Chaomei Chen, College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University. Professor of Information Science. Dr. Chen’s research interests include information visualization, visual analytics, scientific discovery theories, mapping scientific frontiers, quantitative studies of science, and digital libraries. His teaching interests include information visualization, visual analytics, human-computer interaction, programming, and other related topics.
  • Sean Hill, Department of Physiology, University of Toronto. Dr. Hill is an American neuroscientist, Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, and inaugural Scientific Director of the Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics in Toronto, Canada. He is co-Director of the Blue Brain Project at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne located on the Campus Biotech in Geneva, Switzerland. He is known for the development of large-scale computational models of brain circuitry and neuroinformatics.
  • Sauro Succi, Center for Life Nano & Neuro Science at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Rome. Senior Research Executive and Research Affiliate at Harvard University’s Institute for Applied Computational Science. Dr. Succi’s research focuses on computational physics, particularly lattice Boltzmann methods for fluid dynamics, soft matter, and complex systems. He is a pioneer in mesoscopic modeling of fluids and materials and the author of several influential monographs.
  • Reina Coromoto Camacho Toro, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris. Experimental particle physicist and member of the ATLAS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider. Dr. Camacho Toro earned her PhD in Physics from Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France in 2012, after undergraduate studies at Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela. Her work spans data analysis, silicon detector R&D, trigger systems (e.g. gFEX), and educational/capacity-building programs for Latin‐America. She is co-coordinator of the LA-CoNGA Physics project, promoting virtual European-Latin American collaboration and open science.
  • Cyrus Pan Walther, TU Dortmund University. He a Past-President of the International Association of Physics Students (IAPS). Walther is also an elected member of the Executive Committee of CODATA (International Science Council), and Vice-Chair for Physics & Industry in IUPAP. His work focuses on promoting the voice, engagement, and resources for young physicists globally, particularly in areas of data science, astroparticle physics, sustainability, and AI/ML uncertainty predictions. He is a Fellow of the International Science Council.