Programs & operations
Nadia Kowalski
Open Science Lead
she/her · at Ruqi since 2022
“Open source is a license. Open science is the harder promise: that someone with less money and less context can actually use what we make.”
Nadia runs Ruqi's open science program: licensing, data stewardship, reproducibility reviews, and the unglamorous work of making sure a released tool has an install guide that does not assume a postdoc is standing nearby.
She studied library and information science in Warsaw and spent years building open-data infrastructure for municipal governments. She joined Ruqi because the lab was willing to treat public access as a design constraint rather than an afterthought.
She chairs the lab's publication review, which checks every paper for data availability, code, and a plain-language summary. She also runs the annual Open Quantum Tools workshop and maintains the lab's documentation style guide.
Working on
Open licensing · Reproducibility · Research infrastructure
Off the clock
Runs a monthly repair café, knits extremely loud sweaters, and reads more science fiction than is strictly necessary.
Ask me about
licensing, data stewardship, documentation, repair cafés.
Questions in the drawer
- What does 'reproducible' mean for an experiment that costs $40,000 a week to run?
- How should a nonprofit license hardware designs so that community labs can use them?
- Which documentation failures quietly exclude the people we say we want to include?
Selected work
2026
2025
2026
Open to collaborations
Work with Nadia
Good questions make better neighbours.
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