Paola Masuzzo has a PhD in Bioinformatics from Ghent University, in Belgium, and a big passion for data and open knowledge. She has participated in many international projects for the promotion of open research practices, especially for FAIR data and open source code. She is currently a data scientist for a corporate organization, an independent researcher by the Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education (IGDORE), and an associate of onData. She spends a lot of free time advocating for free and fair access to knowledge. She has co-authored many articles on open scholarly communication, has been a ContentMine and a Research Data Alliance fellow, has co-founded the Civic Lab Ghent, and served in the Steering Committee of the Open Science MOOC. You can follow her on Twitter @pcmasuzzo.