Dr. Vinodh Ilangovan

Dr. Vinodh Ilangovan (pronouns: they/ them) is a biomedical scientist and Coordinator for Curation and Community Building of the Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG) at Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Hannover, Germany. They advance open science by supporting researchers and research organizations in making scholarly knowledge FAIR and machine-actionable. As part of Germany’s National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), particularly the consortium for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (NFDI4DataScience) Vinodh contributes to building interoperable public knowledge infrastructures that enhance the discoverability, integration, and reuse of research outputs.

Vinodh engages in innovative science communication efforts and was a finalist of the Dance your PhD contest. Vinodh served as an early career advisor for the scientific journal eLife Sciences, and cofounded Goettingen Campus Postdoctoral Network, as well as the Open Science Community Hannover. Vinodh leverages emerging technologies to improve research integrity.