Malvika Sharan

SSI fellow

OLS (Open Life Science Ltd.)

Interests

My interests lie in the intersection of community building, bio-computation, and the inclusion of historically underrepresented groups in STEM. In my SSI fellowship project, I want to specifically focus on identifying and developing effective training strategies in the low-income research environment (i.e. limited resources, lack of funding, etc.).

Malvika Sharan is the Co-Director of Open Life Science (OLS) Ltd., a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to building capacity and diversifying research leadership through open science.

Work

Joining The Turing Way in 2019, Malvika led the The Turing Way, scaling this community-driven data science initiative from a small group to a global community of thousands, and transitioning to a community-governed model in 2025. In her previous roles, Malvika established and led the first Research Community Management (RCM) team at The Alan Turing Institute and co-led the Bio-IT bioinformatics community project at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.

Malvika contributes to several open science projects and open source communities. She serves on the Steering Committee of The Turing Way and the Advisory Committee of CSID-Network. She has advised initiatives like NASA Open Science, the Society of RSE, and Data Science Without Borders. She holds a Software Sustainability Institute Fellowship and was featured on the 2024 "100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™" list.

Online Presence

My personal website

My ORCiD

My Google Scholar

My GitHub page

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