Getting to know... Lucas van der meer (LCRDM Advisory Group)
Why did you choose to become a member of the LCRDM Advisory Group?
To connect national coordination with the day-to-day realities of researchers and data professionals. I care about practical, FAIR and trustworthy data sharing, and I want our national guidance to reflect what actually works in practice.
Why did you choose to become a member of the LCRDM Advisory Group?
To connect national coordination with the day-to-day realities of researchers and data professionals. I care about practical, FAIR and trustworthy data sharing, and I want our national guidance to reflect what actually works in practice.
What are your tasks as a member of the group?
Strengthen governance: sharpen decision rights and accountability, streamline the board’s cadence, and keep our priorities focused on outcomes that matter to the community. Bridge to the RDA (TRE WG): translate RDA Trusted Research Environments work into the Dutch context, bring back lessons learned, and ensure our guidance aligns with international best practice. Integrate adjacent initiatives: map overlaps with similar efforts, reduce duplication, and promote interoperability so investments reinforce each other rather than fragment.
What is your daily job, next to being a member of the Advisory Group?
I’m the CTO of ODISSEI. I lead the technical strategy and architecture for our research data infrastructure: enabling secure data access (including TRE approaches), interoperability across organisations and datasets, and reproducible, scalable workflows that make FAIR-by-design practical.
Can you cross a bridge to the open science community?
Absolutely. Solid RDM is a direct bridge into open science—reusable metadata and code, transparent workflows, and shareable outputs. My focus is making openness the default while meeting legal and ethical requirements, so teams can be both compliant and collaborative.
What would you like to know from the next person in this ‘getting to know’ item?
What’s the one RDM practice you wish every Dutch research group adopted tomorrow—and what would it take to make that happen?
If LCRDM would be an animal, what animal would it be and why?
An octopus: many agile arms coordinating different domains, adaptable, and great at connecting things that don’t naturally connect—exactly what national RDM coordination requires.