Dr Tracey Weissgerber is the team leader for the EXCELScIOR ERA Chair meta-research team, and an Invited Research Coordinator, at the University of Coimbra. While she was trained as a physiologist, she currently focuses on meta-research, or the “science of science”. Her teams’ work on data visualization has led to policy changes in many journals. Other research priorities include enhancing the reproducibility and reusability of methods and protocols, creating automated tools to detect common problems and beneficial practices in research publications, and developing programs to reward graduate students for implementing reproducible, reusable and open practices in their thesis. She is known for her hands-on courses, where participants conduct meta-research studies or apply open research practices in their own research.
Dr Weissgerber will speak about open methods and how the University of Coimbra incentivizes open and reproducible practices among graduate students.