Barend Mons

Barend Mons (born 1957, The Hague) is a molecular biologist and biosemantics]specialist. He is known for innovations in scholarly collaboration, especially nanopublications and the FAIR data initiative. Since 2012 he is a Professor in Bio-Semantics at the Department of Human Genetics at the Leiden University Medical Centre and he is also affiliated with the Erasmus Medical Centre, University of Rotterdam, both in The Netherlands. In 2015 Mons was appointed chair of the High Level Expert Group on the European Open Science Cloud]