Christopher Erdmann is a community advocate, developer, and experimenter in the areas of Open Science and FAIR. Prior to joining the Michael J. Fox Foundation as the Associate Director for Open Science, he was the Assistant Director for Data Leadership at the American Geophysical Union where he was responsible for data stewardship and drove programs on open science and FAIR. He has previously worked for organizations such as the Renaissance Computing Institute at UNC, California Digital Library (The Carpentries), North Carolina State University, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, European Southern Observatory, Supreme Court of the US, United Nations, University of Washington, Smithsonian, and CNET. Christopher holds an MLIS from the University of Washington iSchool and a BA from the University of California, Davis.
