Tanja Ninkovic is an infrastructure and training enthusiast committed to strengthening open and collaborative life sciences culture. She is the manager of the ARISE program at European Molecular Biology Laboratory, EMBL. The program is training scientists for their future careers in RI. With other EMBL colleagues and over 40 ARISE partners, Tanja developed the first comprehensive training curricula for education of future experts for RIs. She described the competencies you need to be successful RI Scientist, and mapped the roles and career progression paths in the life science research infrastructures. She believes that it is the structure and expertise that makes the infrastructure strong.

Tanja started her journey in the infrastructure world 10 years ago, working in the team that led Euro-BioImaging from ESFRI project to ERIC status. She was also responsible for the coordination of different European infrastructure activities at EMBL, including participation in INFRAIA programs and Instruct-ERIC, where she is a member of the Training committee.

During her research years Tanja was a regular user of the core facilities, and worked with physicists and chemists on novel technology developments at Imperial College before she fully moved to infrastructure and training management. She loves infrastructures because they strengthen collaborations in science, making life of the scientists better and speed of discovery faster.

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