Mercè Crosas is the Director of Computational Social Science and Humanities (CSSH) at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). This new initiative advances social sciences and humanities research by utilizing new data and specialized AI model systems. Her research aims to provide innovative infrastructures to advance science with transparency and rigor. Her recent interests focus on AI Readiness for science, implementing FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data, workflows, and AI models for transparent and reproducible research, and applying privacy-preserving methods for responsible use of sensitive data. Crosas is also the President of CODATA, the Committee on Data for the International Science Council, and an affiliate researcher of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University.