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+title: "PhD award for Stian Soiland-Reyes"
+date: 2025-01-20
+categories: announcements awards
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+We are delighted to share the news that eScience Lab co-lead Stian Soiland-Reyes successfully [defended](https://www.uva.nl/en/content/events/2025/01/fair-research-objects-and-computational-workflows-a-linked-data-approach.html) his PhD dissertation '[FAIR Research Objects and Computational Workflows – A Linked Data Approach](https://s11.no/2023/phd/)' at the University of Amsterdam. 
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+His award comes after many years of publishing research at The University of Manchester, on reproducibility, provenance and metadata to improve FAIR sharing of open research data and computational workflows, within [ELIXIR Europe](/projects/elixir/), European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) projects and the workflow repository [WorkflowHub.eu](/products/workflowhub/), as well as building FAIR approaches for high-performance compute (HPC) environments and scholarly Research Objects. 
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+Congratulations, Dr Stian Soiland-Reyes!
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+![Stian presenting dissertation](/images/posts_images/stian-viva1.jpg) 
+![Stian receiving award](/images/posts_images/stian-viva1.jpg) 
+![Stian with his award](/images/posts_images/stian-viva1.jpg) 
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