Melanie A. Gainey

Melanie A. Gainey (she/her) is director of the Open Science and Data Collaborations Program and a STEM librarian at Carnegie Mellon University. Melanie co-created the Open Science and Data Collaborations Program at Carnegie Mellon University Libraries in 2018. In her current role as director, she continues to create and support open science initiatives. She also supports the research, teaching, and learning of students and faculty in the Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, and Computational Biology Departments and at the Neuroscience Institute. Prior to joining CMU Libraries in 2017, Melanie was a postdoctoral researcher in the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, studying plasticity of neural circuits in response to changes in sensory experience. She holds a PhD in neuroscience from Brandeis University.