Editing People (section)

=== Bastian Greshake Tzovaras (Turing Institute) ===
[[File:BastianGreshakeTzovaras.jpg|200px|thumb|Bastian, being so old-timey that his beard has grown.]]

Despite having an academic background in biology/bioinformatics, I've been active in peer-produced citizen science since around 2011. I'm one of the co-founders of the crowdsourced, open data repository openSNP ([https://opensnp.org]), which collects personal genomics data sets from users of Direct-To-Consumer genetic testing companies to put them into the public domain. Since 2017 I'm also the Director of Research for Open Humans (https://www.openhumans.org), an ecosystem for participatory citizen science that aims to allow people to analyze and learn from their own personal data as well as given members the opportunity to share their data with (citizen science) research projects. Among other things we have piloted a JupyterHub-based approach to give people their own virtual machines that allow them to write, run and share data analysis notebooks without having to share any personal information (see [https://exploratory.openhumans.org]).

Since 2019 I'm a research fellow at the Center for Research & Interdisciplinarity in Paris ([https://cri-paris.org/]), where I will study how the ideas of peer-production can be translated to facilitate co-created citizen science projects in which participants are fully involved in all stages of research, from start to finish. Lately a lot of focus there has been on how we can scale up the individualistic quantified self experiments people do to larger cohorts. I also teach students the basics of citizen science and self-tracking. 

Last but not least I'm involved in community building and mentoring in bioinformatics and for open projects in general: I'm a board member of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation ([https://www.open-bio.org/]), have mentored for Mozilla's Open Leadership Cohorts, Outreachy & Google Summer of Code.
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