Biography

Biography

After having worked as a scholarly communication/open science librarian at Utrecht University Library for 15 years, in 2022 Bianca Kramer moved to independent consulting/research analyst role at Sesame Open Science, with a focus on open science, open metadata and open infrastructure. Since February 2025, she also is Executive Director of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information.
Bianca has investigated trends in innovations in scholarly communication across the research cycle in the project 'Innovations in Scholarly Communication'. She has organized many interactive workshops on open science, including the course 'Scientometrics using Open Data' in collaboration with CWTS Leiden and Curtin Open Knowledge Institute (COKI).
She has (co)authored commissioned reports on a quantitative analysis of publication types in Dutch research outputs, a gap analysis of Plan S-compliant publication venues, the diamond OA landscape, and the comparison of coverage and quality of metadata for Dutch research output in OpenAlex and OpenAIRE. She has also been involved in developing Open Access monitoring using open data sources in the Netherlands and the UK.
Bianca was a founding member of the Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) and part of the organizing team of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information, of which she currently is Executive Director.
In the past, she was a member of the Preprint Advisory Group of Crossref, the Europe PMC and Literature Services Scientific Advisory Board of EMBL-EBI, the board of FORCE11, and the EC Expert Group on the Future of Scholarly Communication and Scholarly Publishing.