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,
[1] both in The
Netherlands.
[2][3][4] In 2015 Mons was appointed chair of the High Level Expert Group on the
European Open Science Cloud.