Asura Enkhbayar was a graduate student at the ScholCommLab, working under the supervision of Dr. Juan Pablo Alperin. He is interested in critically exploring the infrastructure of scholarly communication in the 21st century at the intersection of philosophy and technology. Following an undergraduate degree in electronics, Asura studied cognitive science and the philosophy of mind. His previous studies equipped him with the skills needed to tackle a mediatized and data-intense domain, while acknowledging the need for more qualitative work and a solid theoretical foundation.

In his role as a data scientist, he worked on a wide variety of issues, including empirical projects focusing on altmetrics, open access, and open science. Apart from collecting and analysing data, he wrote terrible research software, as expected of a proper data scientist.

Asura remains an advocate for open scholarship, contributes to Open Knowledge Maps and, most importantly, played the main role of Yu in the martial arts short-film The Dojo Part II (watch the trailer on Vimeo). You can find him on GitHub.

Select Publicationshttp://openknowledgemaps.org/

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