Bianca Kramer ORCID

Given names
Bianca
Family names
Kramer
Country
Netherlands

Biography

Biography

After having worked s 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 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 Netherland 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.

Affiliations

Affiliations

Sesame Open Science
advisor, research analyst, facilitator
Started 1 July 2022
Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht University Library ROR
Subject specialist Life Sciences and Medicine , Scholarly Communication specialist
1 May 2008 – 1 July 2022
Hospital for Sick Children, Developmental Biology ROR
Postdoctoral fellow
1 August 2002 – 1 November 2005
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen ROR
Education: PhD Neurobiology
1 March 1997 – 1 April 2002
Wageningen Universiteit en Researchcentrum ROR
Education: MSc Biology
1 September 1990 – 1 January 1997