I am a compulsive new article creator, a
WikiGnome, and an unabashed
inclusionist. I also
carea lot about citations and verifiability. Random love signals are filed
here.
My work at Wikimedia
I worked for the Wikimedia Foundation between 2011 and 2019. Between 2015 and 2019 I served as the Foundation's
Director of Research, overseeing the organization's research strategy and driving research collaboration and outreach efforts with industry, academia, and the Wikimedia movement. Prior to this role, I was the lead of the
Research and Data team, a role I took on after joining WMF as an individual contributor in 2011. I helped coordinate Wikimedia's early research outreach and policy making experiments via the
Research Committee and I co-authored the Wikimedia Foundation's
Open Access policy, which secures the openness and reusability of all the output of WMF's research collaborations. A lot of my energy these past years went into the creation of
a community building an open repository of source metadata to serve free knowledge. Prior to joining the Wikimedia Foundation, I held research and teaching positions at
Sciences Po, the
University of Surrey and
University College London. I hold an MSc and PhD in
cognitive science from the
School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), an MA in
philosophy of science from the
University of Pisa and a licenza from the
Scuola Normale Superiore. A list of talks and publications is available on my
personal homepage.