#SRDD2020 Speaker

Full name

Damien Jeannerat PhD

Affiliation

University of Geneva

Session(s)

The CHEMeDATA initiative : A step towards FAIR chemistry data

Biography

Damien Jeannerat is an independent chemical data specialist. He first worked on the development of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) applied to organic compounds and natural products of pharmacological interest (at the US national high magnetic field laboratory in Tallahassee / PhD, University of Lausanne, Switzerland). Followed, twenty years of academic research at the University of Geneva aiming at improving the availability and the quality of NMR observable used to determine the structure of chemical compounds. Observing that the limiting factor for the use of the full potential of NMR was not methodology, but the lack of usable data, he funded and coordinated the NMReDATA Initiative which introduced a format and method to share the precious NMR information with the community. Being a member of the Editorial board a Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry facilitated the adoption of the NMReDATA format by the community and all relevant NMR software companies in 2019. After leaving academic research, he can fully focus on the promotion of the findability and usability of chemistry data in general through CHEMeDATA.org and a more NMR-centered activity at NMRprocess.ch. Since 2020, he co-chairs at IUPAC working group developing recommendations for spectroscopic data at the international level. After a year of collaboration with the Geneva e-research/DLCM group where the seed of an ontology of chemical objects for archive repository (such as Yareta) was developed, he looks for new fruitful collaborations aiming at actively increase the FAIRness of chemistry data.