Dr. ir. Shalini Kurapati is a senior research fellow of Open Science at the Politecnico di Torino in Italy. Her role is to promote a university wide research program for the development of a roadmap to support research data management and open science within the context of a university of technology. She closely collaborates with the OpenAIRE and RDA national nodes in Italy for policy benchmarking and to organise joint training activities. Previously, she had worked as a data steward at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). She holds a PhD as well as 7 years of research experience from the faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at TU Delft. Her topics of interest and expertise are not limited to research integrity, FAIR principles for data and software, data protection, privacy and ethics. She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E). Shalini also co-founded clearbox.ai, a tech startup that provides tools for human-centric and trustworthy Artificial Intelligence.