Ariel Deardorff is the Director of Data Science & Open Scholarship at the UCSF Library. In her role she leads a team focused on empowering researchers to engage with open research and reproducible data-driven science. An expert in data management and research data publishing, Ariel has led the Library’s involvement with several data infrastructure and policy projects. Ariel is also an open science advocate who performs research on the role of the Library in enabling open and reproducible research.