Liz has a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Manchester. She worked as an ESO Fellow in Chile for the largest array of telescopes in the world, the Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA). She then worked at Leiden Observatory in The Netherlands as a researcher and support manager of ALMA. After 12 years in research she switched careers and became a research data steward for the Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM). She is now the Data Steward’s Team Lead of the Eindhoven University of Technology. She is an expert on data management, open science, and public engagement.