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Danielle Welter appointed as co-lead of ELIXIR Interoperability Platform
February 02, 2026
ELIXIR’s five platforms – Compute, Data, Tools, Interoperability and Training – bring together experts from different Nodes across Europe to develop ELIXIR’s technical vision and coordinate activities in defined areas. Among them, the Interoperability Platform drives best practice in the ways people and machines discover, access, integrate and analyse biological data. It encourages the life science community to adopt standardised file formats, metadata, vocabularies and identifiers.
Danielle Welter, member of the ELIXIR Luxembourg team, was recently appointed to the Executive Committee of the Platform. The committee, composed of three Node experts, leads the Platform together with a coordinator appointed by the ELIXIR Hub. They represent the Platform in external contexts, monitor its progress and ensure communication with other ELIXIR communities.
Danielle has been an active member of the ELIXIR Interoperability Platform and related ELIXIR activities since 2021, contributing in particular to the FAIR Cookbook, the RDMkit and other research data management-related projects. She initially became involved in ELIXIR during her time at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg, working on the FAIRplus project, then, in 2023, carried her engagement forward into her current role as principal data scientist at the Luxembourg National Data Service (LNDS).
“I am looking forward to this new role and to growing the FAIR-enabling portfolio of products,” says Danielle Welter. “The Platform is already a key player in establishing interoperable data management and use, and we will keep promoting best practices for data providers and data integrators.”
