Laurel Haak

Laurel L. Haak, known as Laure, is the Executive Director of ORCID, an international non-profit which generates and maintains unique identifiers for researchers and scholars.

Haak received BS and MS degrees in Biology from Stanford University in 1988. She received her doctorate in neurosciences from the Stanford University School of Medicine in 1997.[1]

Following graduate school, Haak was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health and served as a volunteer editor for a quarterly newsletter for Women in Neuroscience published by the Society for Neuroscience. In 2002, she accepted a position as editor and manager of the Postdoctoral Network for Science's Next Wave. From 2006 to 2012, she served as Chief Science Officer at Discovery Logic, an IT startup company in Rockville, Maryland that was acquired by Thomson Reuters in 2009, where she provided research policy expertise and oversaw research evaluation system development.[2] In April 2012, she was the first person appointed to the executive board of ORCID.[3][4]

She has received the following awards:

References
  1. "Laurel L Haak Biography". ORCID. 15 April 2019. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
  2. "Laurel L. Haak". Research Data Alliance. 14 January 2014. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
  3. Butler, Declan (30 May 2012). "Scientists: your number is up". Nature. Springer Nature. 485 (7400): 564. Bibcode:2012Natur.485..564B. doi:10.1038/485564a. PMID 22660298.
  4. Austin, Jim (13 Jul 2012). "Career Q&A: Laurel Haak". Science. American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
  5. "Recipient of the 2016 Distinguished Service Award Announced". National Postdoctoral Association. 2 February 2016. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
  6. "AWIS Honors OTT's Haak". NIH Record. NIH. 1 June 2007. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
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