Andrea is a Data Management Specialist at LifeWatch ERIC’s ICT-Core, with over 8 years of experience managing high-value environmental datasets in institutional and research projects. She previously worked at the University of Granada, where she managed long-term ecological data and collaborated closely with researchers, managers, and technicians at the Sierra Nevada Global Change Observatory and multiple research projects. Her main tasks involve designing and implementing Data Management Plans following European guidelines and FAIR principles, designing data services from a fitness-for-use perspective, harmonising data from different sources, storing (meta)data in open-source solutions, providing technical consultancy on data management, and collaborating with professionals from different backgrounds. She has also collaborated with international networks such as GBIF and eLTER.
