Jet Zoon works as a Data Steward Research at the Big Data Core of the Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology. Here she raises awareness of good RDM practices by developing and providing training and support, and coordinating a community of local data stewards to help good data practices reach researchers at every level. With a background in neuroscience, she brings a researcher's perspective, helping teams understand and apply the FAIR data principles in their day-to-day practice.

As part of a broader data governance project, Jet was responsible for developing a core metadata standard tailored to research needs. At the SURF Research Day, she will share the process of arriving at a standard that strikes a pragmatic balance — concise and researcher-friendly, yet robust enough to make data meaningfully findable and reusable — without overburdening the researchers it's meant to support.