Dan grew up in the Midwest and is thrilled to be back and working at the University of Michigan, including working with the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) and the Deep Blue Repository and Research Data Services (DBRRDS) team at the U-M Library. He has spent the past 5 years working in research reproducibility and has discovered a passion for helping others to achieve their research goals in a way that enables and encourages sharing and reuse of both data and code. He believes that code and data are fundamentally linked with each other as well as with the publication and reproducibility works to show and strengthen these bonds.
Fun fact: When adopting his cat, she jumped from her cage at the shelter into his lap and started hissing at the other cats, so he knew he had to take her home.