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Andy GÖTZ

Andy started his scientific career as a radio astronomer at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, followed by a position at the Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie in Bonn, Germany. He then moved to France where he joined the European Synchrotron (ESRF) in 1988, first working on the accelerators control systems and then moving on to beamline controls, data processing and data management.

Andy currently leads the team implementing the ESRF data policy for scientific data and has been involved in EOSC since its beginnings. In 2019 he became coordinator of the Horizon 2020 project PaNOSC (Open Science for Photons and Neutrons in Europe).

Since June 2024, Andy works part-time for the EOSC Association as editor of the EOSC Federation Handbook. He is passionate about Open Science, Open Source software, scientific data management, FAIR data, and EOSC.