FAIR Coffee lecture – Sandra Geurts

UM is on a mission to become a leading example in the Open Science movement, which aims to make research papers, data, methods, etc. open to anyone so we can all benefit. The FAIR principles go hand-in-hand with Open Science and they form a great guide to make sure that the research you make Open, can actually be used. With the FAIR Coffee lecture series, the Open Science Community of UM, in collaboration with the Community for Data-Driven Initiatives (CDDI), will help you find out more about these topics and discover how your colleagues have applied Open Science and FAIR principles to their research. These lectures are a perfect chance to dip your toes in the FAIR water and find inspiration in the work of others! Coffee/tea and cookies will be waiting for you!

For this session of the FAIR Coffee lecture, on February 27th 2025 at 14:00, we’ve invited Dr. Ir. Sandra Geurts (1985), a clinical epidemiologist working at the division of Medical Oncology, MUMC+. She has extensive experience in setting up and performing cohort studies. Sandra is the co-PI of the SONABRE registry, a regional registry of patients diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in 11 hospitals in the Southeast of Netherlands. She is a board member of the Dutch Breast Cancer Cohort, a national initiative to set up an infrastructure for breast cancer research in the Netherlands. As part of her Data2Care fellowship, Sandra and her colleagues develop and validate the use of CTcue in patient selection and data collection for breast cancer studies. As recent recipient of a ZonMw grant, she can share her experience with the requirements from ZonMw regarding steps you can take to improve the FAIRness of your data. You can find the abstract here.

The program is as follows:

• 14.00 A quick introduction on FAIR/Open Science and the FAIR Coffee lecture series
• 14.10 Main lecture by Sandra Geurts (Including discussion/questions)
• 14.55 Closing statement

This session will be a hybrid lecture, which you can either attend in person (location: Paul Henri Spaaklaan 1, room C1.015 ) or via Zoom (link will be shared in the confirmation email). Please indicate how you will attend by registering on the right side of the page.

See you there!

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Future events

Two more Fair Coffee lectures are in the planning for 2025.