Dr Malvika Sharan is a co-founder and co-director of OLS (Open Life Science). She is a co-lead of a community-led open science project, The Turing Way, a community-driven open science project, and has extended it through the Innovate UK BridgeAI-funded Practitioners Hub, which engages industry partners in adopting best practices for AI. She is a Senior Researcher in Open Research at The Alan Turing Institute where she established and led the Open Research Community Management Team, improving community-centred approach to data science and AI through community experts. With a PhD in Bioinformatics, Malvika is an alumna of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. She is a Software Sustainability Institute fellow, a Mozilla Open Leadership fellow, an awardee of CogX community leaders and JISC community champion awards, and has proudly made it to the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™ - 2024 list. She collaborates with open science communities, with previous advisory and consultation roles with NASA TOPS, the Society of RSE, the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and The Carpentries.