Esther Plomp

Postdoc/Research Developer

I work at the University of Aruba Research Center (UARC), where I am responsible for anything related to Research Support, including managing the Open Knowledge Repository, applying for and supporting with research grants, generating visibility for researchers and their projects via posters, article summaries and translations and event/conference support. I am responsible for the development and implementation of policies related to research, including the establishment of the UA Research Ethics Committee (of which I am currently also the Chair). I organize seminars and workshops on research skills. I am also responsible for the UARC's communication, including sending out the monthly newsletters nand maintaining the LinkedIn account. I am also the Community Manager/Workpackage leader for the ECO-SCALE project (2026-2027).

DCDC-Network coordinator

The Dutch Caribbean Digital Competence Network, DCDC-Network, connects researchers, institutions, and professionals across the (Dutch) Caribbean who share a commitment to open data, collaborative research, and building digital capacity. I am the Aruba Local Coordinator and the project coordinator.

Data Steward

As a Data Steward I was responsible for research support at the Faculty, providing support for researchers on writing data management plans (DMPs), data storage and sharing solutions, managing personal and confidential data, and increasing awareness of open science practices. In the 2020/2021 academic year I have been coordinating the online programming workshops that are hosted at TU Delft thanks to the Carpentries. Next to that I was involved in the organisation of other trainings with a focus on Open Science and Research Data Management. Together with the Research Support Team at TU Delft Library and the other Data Stewards at TU Delft I wrote blog posts (http://openworking.wordpress.com) and papers about the Data Stewards activities. I was responsible for the development of the Faculty’s policy on research data, and I coordinated the Faculty's Open Science team (2021-2024). I was also part of the board of the Open Science Community Delft (2023-2024). I have also been involved in the Electronic Lab Note (ELN) pilot at the TU Delft that introduced RSpace annd eLABnext licenses at the university, as well as a pilot for BioRender.

Open Research Ambassador

As an Open Research Ambassador I promote Open Science practises in the the isotope/bioarchaeology community. In 2021 I co-organised the IsoArcH event on Open Science, and in August 2025 and 2026 I contributed to the IsoArcH Hackaton event.

Open Research Calendar Team Member

I'm one of the founding members of the Open Research Calendar, a community-powered shared calendar that enables interested users to keep track of open research events or promote their events through a Google calendar, Twitter and a newsletter.

Project member and Working Group Member (Book Dash) of The Turing Way

The Turing Way is a handbook to reproducible, ethical and collaborative data science, as well as a community that promotes these practices. My contributions are primarily found in the Guide to Reproducible Research. I am currently the Book Dash Working Group Chair (a position I held before in 2024), and have been a returning Book Dash Planning Committee member (2022-2026).

Advisory Board Member

I provide input on ORCA’s strategy and activities, particularly from my experience in the EU as well as a member of several grass roots Open Science communities.

Mentor/Expert and Governance Committee member

As a Governance Committee member since 2023 I provide input on OLS’s strategy and activities, particularly from my experience as a member of several grass roots Open Science communities. Since 2021 I have been an expert on Open Data and I have mentored in several OLS Cohorts. I also provide Allyskills trainings.

Other Community Involvements

Chapter: Plomp, E. (2025). Publishing and archiving. In: Cooper, N., & Hsing, P.-Y. (Eds.). Guide to Reproducible Code. British Ecological Society. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.16421733

Article: Stantis, C., et al. (2024). Ethics and applications of isotope analysis in archaeology. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 186(1). DOI:10.1002/ajpa.24992

Article: Hall, S.M. et al. 2024. Ten simple rules for pushing boundaries of inclusion at academic events, PLOS Computational Biology DOI:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011797

Article: Silverstein, P., et al. 2024. A guide for social science journal editors on easing into open science, Research Integrity and Peer Review DOI:10.1186/s41073-023-00141-5

Article: Plomp, E. 2023. Valuing a Broad Range of Research Contributions through Team Infrastructure Roles: Why CRediT Is Not Enough. Commonplace DOI:10.21428/6ffd8432.f92deec7

Article: Bennet, A., et al. 2023. A Manifesto for Rewarding and Recognizing Team Infrastructure Roles, Journal of Trial and Error DOI:10.36850/mr8

Article: Plomp, E., N. Dintzner, M. Teperek, A. Dunning 2019. Cultural obstacles to research data management and sharing at TU Delft. UKSG Insights, 32(1), DOI:10.1629/uksg.484

Workshop: Open Data, Speaker for the AREN Local Network Lead Training Program (2024, 2026), Open Data: Principles and Tools DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10994248, Open Data: Benefits and Challenges DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10994160, Reusing Open Data DOI:10.5281/zenodo.11862588, Sharing Open Data DOI:10.5281/zenodo.11862672

Event: Openness, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Academia , Co-organiser DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10994160

Workshop: Digital Research Academy – Research Data Management 101 , Co-organiser (12-05-2025), DOI:10.53962/wzms-8840

Workshop: Recognising supporting roles, Co-organiser (13-04-2023), DOI:10.5281/zenodo.7821114

Webinar series: RDA/ESIP Physical Samples Webinar Series, Co-organiser (30-06 – 07-10-2021)

Plomp, E., Supporting Researchers with Research Data Management practices via The Turing Way , RDAP (16-04-2026) DOI:10.5281/zenodo.19393045

Plomp, E. and E. Karoune, Removing Barriers to Reproducible Research – Poster, BABAO (16-09-2022) DOI:10.5281/zenodo.7079174

Plomp, E., Open Science Buffet, TNW Science Day (30-06-2022) DOI:10.5281/zenodo.6752865

Gould van Praag, C., B. Kennedy, A. Lautarescu, and E. Plomp, Open Research Calendar, Open Science Conference (17-02-2021) DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4576812

Plomp, E., Persistent identifiers for physical aspects of research, International FAIR Convergence Symposium 2020 (27-11-2021) DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4293408

Plomp, E., From FAIRytale to reality: Research Data Management put into practice, NWOlife 2019 (29-05-2019) DOI:10.5281/zenodo.2667392

• R / GitHub (basic)
• Microsoft Word/PowerPoint/Excel/Access & Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator/Reader/Acrobat
• Wordpress, Facebook, Twitter, Mastodon, Slack, Mattermost, Discord

• Fluent: English, Dutch
• Intermediate: Papiamento
• Basic: French, Spanish (reading)

• Chairing, taking minutes
• Interviewing
• Editing, Scientific Writing
• Policy writing

• Planning and organsing
• Result-oriented
• Analytical
• Innovative
• Flexible

Mapping Openness in Europe: A Regional Meeting with Open Knowledge Foundation, Open Knowledge Foundation (30 October 2024)

Open Science Buffet (28 June 2022)

Open Science should not be a hobby (16 May 2022)

Moving Open Science forward at the institutional/departmental level (24 January 2022)

On being an Open Life Science programme mentor in 2021, Open Life Science Programme (04 January 2022)

Diversity and Inclusion in Research, Technology and Design, Delft Open Science Community (29 October 2021)

Publishing a Data Article (17 February 2022)

Managing and Sharing Data in 2021 (17 September 2021)

Tracking Impact and Measuring Success in Data Education Events, Code for Society (22 June 2021)

How can you make research data accessible? Software Sustainability Institute (01 March 2021)

FAIRsharing: how to contribute to standards? (10 July 2020)

Be prepared to pay for open source (and deal with the consequences), Software Sustainability Institute Blog (08 September 2021)

Fellow Feature: Esther Plomp, eScience Center Blog (28 January 2025)

How much research output is really open, and how can we tell?, eScience Center Blog (5 December 2024)

Making software FAIR? Open Working (16 December 2021)

Publishing articles in 2021 (19 November 2020)

Team infrastructure roles: charting the path for future leaders, REDS Conference Blog (24 February 2025)

Quality is key (01 September 2021)

How will we judge scientists in 2030? #wetenschapper2030 (27 May 2019)

Scholarly Communications and Publishing Peer Review Workshop, Open Publishing - TU Delft (15-03-2024)

Overview 2024 Esther (21 November 2024)

Another year over! (31 December 2022)

A Data Steward journey (22 April 2022)

Gridding through 2021 (24 December 2021)

PhD in 4 - 5, 6, 7, Data Horror Stories, (27 October 2021)

The Open Archaeobotanist Guest Blog - Dr Esther Plomp, The Open Archaeobotanist, (30 April 2021)

A year in the life of a Data Steward, Open Working (04 February 2020)

The Turing Way Book Dash at TU Delft (November 2024) (20 November 2024)

Cultivating Openness: From Community Resources to Institutional Acceptance, Upstream (19 November 2024)

How to create institutional support for Open Science initiatives (AKA your ‘hobby projects’), without burning out? (31-10-2024)

The Turing Way Book Dash at TU Delft (31 May 2023)

Workshop on FAIR for Physical Objects – Summary and Conclusions, TDCC NES (06 March 2023)

Barcamp Open Science 2022: Connecting and Strengthening the Communities!, ZBW MediaTalk (13 April 2022)

The Turing Way Book Dash (Online) (18 November 2021)

Teaching Carpentries Workshops Online, RDAP Association Blog (21 April 2021)

Research Data Alliance Plenary 16 – Esther’s perspective (23 November 2020)

15 Tips for Running a Great Online Event (03 November 2020)

Celebrating 4TU.ResearchData’s Role in Fostering Open Science (06 October 2020)

Online Genomics Workshop @TUDelft (02 October 2020)

Remote ReproHacking (05 August 2020)

Movement-building from home, a participant view (20 May 2020)

Online Conferencing (15 May 2020)

Should we Zoom in? Things you need to know (09 April 2020)

VU Library Live talk show and podcast on the academic reward system (25 March 2020)

Turing Way Bookdash (27 February 2020)

Advanced Methods for Reproducible Science 2020 (13 January 2020)

Open to Whom? A gender perspective on open science (25 October 2020)

TU Delft’s First Genomics Data Carpentry (07 June 2019)

Review on workshops to make your data more FAIR: some practical tools and suggestions (03 June 2019)

Open Science Barcamp Berlin 2019 (25 April 2019)

Data Champion kick off meeting (14 January 2019)