Barend Mons

Barend Mons (born 1957, The Hague) is a molecular biologist and a FAIR data specialist. He is most known for innovations in scholarly collaboration, especially nanopublications, and knowledge graph based discovery.
In 2014 he organised the seminal FAIR conference at the Lorentz centre that led to the FAIR data initiative and GO FAIR. In 2015 he was appointed chair of the High Level Expert Group on the European Open Science Cloud.
In 2024, he was appointed as Fellow of the International Science Council. At his retirement in 2024 he was Knighted by the Dutch King in the ‘Order of the Netherlands Lion’, the oldest and highest reward for cultural and scientific contributions to the international society.