Research Interests: Data infrastructure development, analytical methods, metrology and standards, radiation protection and environmental radioactivity, quaternary geology, cultural heritage
Qualifications: PhD Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth; MA Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford; BSc Physics and Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Newcastle University
Contact: c.burbidge@ria.ie
ORCiD ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-1525
Profile
Chris Burbidge is the project manager of the National Open Research Forum (NORF) based at the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI). In this role, Chris supports the implementation of Ireland’s National Action Plan for Open Research.
Chris’s qualifications bridge hard science and cultural aspects of data generation, analytics, and management, complemented by a career in academic research and the public sector. At the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC) and Instituto Superior Técnico (ITN/IST) Chris led research projects, exchanges and provision of services on archaeometry, geochronology, radioecology, radiation protection and metrology, including with the International Atomic Energy Agency. During 5 years at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Dublin, Chris led a team providing accredited radiation monitoring and calibration services, developing infrastructure and research projects and calls, and championing procurement through COVID and the transition of health and safety and quality systems. At iCRAG, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre in Applied Geosciences hosted by University College Dublin, Chris built new partnerships and developed successful proposals in datacentric funding areas. These projects, with the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), Géant, HEAnet, the Irish Centre for High End Computing (ICHEC), plus government, university and industry partners, are continuing to address and support development of NORF objectives on culture, access and stewardship, but especially on enabling research outputs, through infrastructure development, which meet the principles of findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability (FAIR). Chris has continued to supervise students and interns coming from particle physics to fine arts, to host conferences and to publish and review projects and papers academically across radiation physics, geoscience and cultural heritage. A long standing member of the European Radiation Dosimetry Group (EURADOS), Chris is also currently contributing to the Irish Journal of Earth Sciences editorial board at the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), Irish and UK Quaternary research associations, working groups of the Research Data Alliance (RDA), plus Géant and EOSC task forces.
