Bob is a Senior Research Facilitator supporting faculty and researchers in Harvard-wide use of regulated data. He has had a long stint at Harvard that began with earning his Ph.D. in Virology from Harvard’s Graduate School.  Furthermore, he has seen the breadth of Harvard’s campuses, starting by his work in Cell Biology and Systems Biology doing bioinformatics at Harvard Medical School (HMS), as well as helping kick start HMS Research Computing. His time at FAS Research Computing was pivotal to the NSF funded ACI-REF project, and he continued to expand his breadth of supporting the long tail while at Harvard Business School’s Research Computing Services. Bob is also currently co-chair of the People Network, which is part of the Campus Research Computing Consortium (CaRCC), a grass-roots national organization that supports RCD professionals. Throughout his career, Bob continues to be a research & IT boundary-spanner that combines his leadership and technical skills; and we are overjoyed to have him at University RCD.

📩 robert_freeman@harvard.edu