Julieta Arancio, PhD

Postdoctoral researcher funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to conduct a case study of the Open Flexure Microscope at University of Bath (UK) and the Ifakara Health Institute (Tanzania).

I’m currently part of CENIT-UNSAM as an associate researcher, after working as a doctoral researcher (2016-2021) funded by the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). Previously, I was a collaborator in ‘Open, Collaborative and Alternative Science: overcoming health, inclusion and environmental challenges in Argentina’ (2015-2016) funded by the International Development Research Centre, Canada (IDRC-OCSDnet).

Lead researcher and writer of a white paper on low cost and open source hardware for scientific research.

Writer of two policy briefs and four policy memos on open science hardware, targeted at various audiences.

Design and implementation of an open ontology for supporting remote and effective knowledge transfer of surgical skills at a low cost. Part of the “Global Surgical Training Challenge” organised by Appropedia Foundation in partnership with Intuitive Foundation, MIT Solve, and Nesta Challenges.

Designer and instructor of Wikidata workshops for undergrad students at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.

Mentor of Master students’ projects addressing the Sustainable Development Goals, with a focus on challenge-based learning, community building and management of open source projects.

Co-founder (2019) of a global mentorship programme for open hardware projects. General strategy, project management, curriculum design and communications. I led a community consultation process for improving our curriculum with the global open hardware community.

Founder (2022) and organiser of an open, collaborative community of researchers studying the socioeconomic aspects of open hardware practice.

Co-founder (2017) of the network, ex-coordinator of Buenos Aires node, in charge of the strategy working group. I co-organised a regional residency in 2019, having previously co-organised a Global Open Science Hardware (GOSH) event in Shenzhen, China, in 2018.

• Arancio, J., Tirado, M. M., & Pearce, J. (2022). Equitable Research Capacity Towards the Sustainable Development Goals: The Case for Open Science Hardware. J. Sci. Policy Gov, 21. https://doi.org/10.38126/JSPG210202

• Arancio, Julieta and Velis, Emilio and Torres, Diego (2022) Documenting and assessing open innovation: co-creation of an open data model for surgical training. fteval Journal for Research and Technology Policy Evaluation (54). pp. 81-90. ISSN 1726-6629

• Arancio, J. C. (2021). Opening Up The Tools For Doing Science: The Case Of The Global Open Science Hardware Movement. International Journal of Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace, 8(2), 1–27. https://doi.org/10.24908/ijesjp.v8i2.13997

• Arancio, J. ‘Open science hardware: towards more democratic science and technology in Latin America?’ Proceedings of 15th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, University of Skövde, 2019.

• Arancio, J.; Sebastian, S.; Schwertz-Weirich, A.; Actis, G.; Cremaschi, A.; Arancibia, F.; Van Zwanenberg, P.; Fressoli, M. ‘Relato de experiencia, Workshop internacional de desarrollo abierto y colaborativo’ in Liinc Em Revista, 2018 https://doi.org/10.18617/liinc.v14i1.4132

• Arancio, Julieta. (2021). Open Hardware: A key for accelerating science and technology towards the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5415527

• Arancio, Julieta, & Molloy, Jenny. (2021). Open Hardware is ready to help Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs) maximise the impact of academic research. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5094999

• Arancio, Julieta & collaborators. (2021) Open Science Hardware, Research Funding Salons. https://openhardware.science/2021-research-funding-salons/

• SPARC Impact Stories (2023) “Often Overlooked Sharing of Hardware is a Missing Link in Open Science Puzzle” available at https://sparcopen.org/impact-story/often-overlooked-sharing-of-hardware-is-a-missing-link-in-open-science-puzzle/

• Arancio, J.; Kutschera, A.; Maia Chagas, A.; Ezeike, E. and Havemann, J. (2022) ‘Access to Perspectives - Conversations: Open Hardware Makers’. Podcast. Available at: https://doi.org/10.21428/51e64700.b528ba98

• Arancio, Julieta and Dosemagen, Shannon. (2022) ‘Bringing Open Source to the Global Lab Bench.’ Issues in Science and Technology 38, no. 2: 18–20. Available at: https://issues.org/open-source-science-hardware-gosh-arancio-dosemagen/

• Arancio, Julieta. (2022). ‘Diversifying technology transfer tools to increase the impact of academic research’. IPR Blog, University of Bath. Available at: https://blogs.bath.ac.uk/iprblog/2021/12/10/diversifying-technology-transfer-tools-to-increase-the-impact-of-academic-research/.

• Arancio, Julieta. (2020) ‘Open Science Hardware contributes to aligning the research agenda with societal needs’, in Journal of Open Hardware Blog. Available at https://journalopenhw.medium.com/open-science-hardware-contributes-to-aligning-the-research-agenda-with-societal-needs-dba991239f5e

• UN Open Science Conference (2023, New York) - Invited speaker, available at UN website
• MIT Media Lab (2022, Cambridge MA) - Invited speaker
• Cambridge Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Department (2022, Cambridge UK) - Invited speaker
• Society for Social Studies of Science Meeting 4S/ESOCITE (2022, Cholula) - Panel organiser
• Regional Open Science Hardware Latin America (reGOSH 2022, Argentina) - Invited speaker
• EASST Conference (2022, Madrid) - Presenting author
• Fundación AVINA (2022, online) - Invited speaker
• STS Switzerland 2021 Conference (15-17 February 2021, online) - Presenting author
• 4S/EASST Conference (18-20 August 2020, online) - Presenting author
• Doctoral Consortium - OpenSym (2019, Sweden) - Presenting author
• Global Open Science Hardware gathering (2018, China) - Co-organiser & facilitator
• Mozilla Festival (2018, London) - Presenting author
• OpenCon Swiss (2018, Bern) - Invited speaker
• UNESCO Tech4Dev (2018, Lausanne) - Presenting author

Member of the UK Sociology Association since 2022, involved in the Early Career Researchers Network in the South-West of England.

Member of AsSIST-UK since 2022, an association supporting transdisciplinary collaboration across the social sciences, humanities and sciences in the field of science, innovation and technology.

Member of EASST since 2020, an organisation representing academics and researchers in science, technology and innovation studies.

Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Open Hardware (JOH) since 2020, a peer reviewed open access publication for open hardware research and development.

Project management (PMI-certified expected June 2022), community organising, open and collaborative leadership, events organising, fundraising.

I often work with version control software and platforms (git/GitHub/GitLab), basic web development (HTML, CSS, some JS and frameworks like Jekyll), Python and R scripts for data analysis in Jupyter notebooks/RStudio, ontology design in Protegé, and more broadly, all-things-Wikidata. I’m familiar with digital fabrication tools (laser cutting, 3D-printing) and educational boards/platforms like Arduino, ESP32 or microBIT. I can also do basic audio and video editing.

I speak Spanish (native), English (bilingual), French (A2) and I understand Portuguese.