It is with great pleasure that we can announce that our collaborator Prof. Russell Poldrack, Department of Psychology & Head of the Center for Open and Reproducible Science, Stanford University, United States has been awarded Rigshospitalet's International KFJ Award 2024.
We have for several years collaborated with Russ through our joint program OpenNeuroPET and with NRU scientists Melanie Ganz-Benjaminsen and Cyril Pernet spearheading this. Moreover, former NRU PhD student, Martin Nørgaard, who was a postdoc in Russ’ laboratory at Stanford and is now an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at NRU/DIKU also serves as a link and we have ten joint publications emerging from this exciting collaboration.
Russ Poldrack is a cognitive neuroscientist and data scientist, with 249 registered publications on PubMed, an exponential growth of per-year citations in Google Scholar and an h-index of 138. His group has made important contributions to the basic understanding of how decision making and executive control are implemented in the human brain. He is also one of the world’s leading experts in data sharing and open science within biomedical research, and has developed a number of widely used open-source tools for data analysis and sharing. In addition, Poldrack has exceptional personal, managerial and collaborative skills. For several decades, Poldrack has been one of the most engaging, influential, and productive individuals within the field of brain imaging and data science, and his group at Stanford University is internationally recognized as one of the best groups within functional brain imaging that addresses the “reproducibility crisis” in science by advocating for good research practices such as data sharing, reproducible data analysis and open science. His group has been at the forefront of developing standards for the organization and sharing of large datasets that can facilitate mega-analyses across research centers and hospitals, ensuring robust and generalizable scientific findings. He has authored a widely used Handbook for fMRI Data Analysis, and three books for broad audiences, including “The New Mind Readers” that explains the power and limitations of neuroimaging for non-experts. Poldrack has also worked to bring good research practices to scientists more broadly. He founded the Center for Open and Reproducible Science at Stanford (CORES) within the Stanford Data Science Center, whose mission is to develop and nurture transparency and reproducibility in the collection, analysis, and dissemination of data across all domains of scientific activity. He has also written a widely-used introductory statistics book (“Statistical Thinking”) that includes an entire chapter on doing reproducible research.
RH-News about the award: https://www.rigshospitalet.dk/english/news-and-media/news/Pages/2024/November/pioneer-in-open-science-receives-prestigious-danish-award.aspx