Regular biography
Stian Soiland-Reyes is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Manchester. His research focuses on reproducibility, provenance, and metadata to enhance FAIR sharing of open research data and computational workflows. He is co-leader of the eScience Lab research group and contributes to projects such as ELIXIR Europe, the European Open Science Cloud, and WorkflowHub.eu. Stian has worked on the W3C PROV standard and the Research Object model, now implemented as RO-Crate. He is also part of the Common Workflow Language leadership team and has over two decades of experience in IT, including software development and open-source contributions. His work supports FAIR principles and promotes open science practices.
Scholar-generated biography
Stian Soiland-Reyes is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Manchester, focusing on reproducibility, workflows, linked data, FAIR principles, and provenance. His research explores methods to standardize computational reuse and portability through frameworks like the Common Workflow Language (CWL) and Taverna workflow suite. He contributes to FAIR computational workflows, emphasizing persistent identifiers, metadata, and interoperable research objects. His work includes the PROV-O ontology, PAV ontology, and RO-Crate for packaging research artefacts. Soiland-Reyes also promotes open annotation data models and FAIR4RS principles for research software, aiming to enhance reproducibility and data sharing in scientific research.