Bio – Dario Taraborelli

An open science leader with over twenty years of experience in the field, Dario has devoted his career to building programs, strategies, and solutions to transform scientific collaboration and knowledge production and dissemination through principles of open research. As a Science Program Officer at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, he leads a portfolio of partnerships and philanthropic investments in tools, platforms, and organizations aimed at helping scientists share data, knowledge, and resources in the open and build on each other’s work.

Prior to joining CZI, he served as the Head of Research at the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia and its sister projects. Dario’s research interests focus on online collaboration and commons-based peer production. He is the co-author of the Altmetrics Manifesto, a founder of the Initiative for Open Citations, a former Marie Curie fellow and ISI Foundation fellow.

Dario was the joint recipient of a gold prize in interactive visualization from the Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards and his work has been featured in various outlets, including Nature News, Science Magazine, the Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, TechCrunch, BoingBoing, The Next Web, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Times Higher Education.

Dario was born and raised in Italy, slow-cooked in France, glazed in Britain, and served medium rare in the United States. Prior to joining the Wikimedia Foundation, he held research and teaching positions at University College London, University of Surrey, Sciences Po, Paris Diderot University, and the Jean-Nicod Institute. He was trained as a behavioral and computational scientist and holds a PhD and MSc in Cognitive Science from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, an MA in Philosophy of Science from the University of Pisa and a licenza from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Italy.

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