Tim Errington is the Senior Director of Research at the Center for Open Science (COS) that aims to increase openness, integrity, and reproducibility of scientific research. In that position he conducts and collaborates with researchers and stakeholders across scientific disciplines and organizations on metascience projects aimed to understand the current research process and evaluate initiatives designed to increase reproducibility and openness of scientific research. These include large scale reproducibility projects such as the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology and the DARPA supported Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE), and evaluation projects of new initiatives such as open science badges, Registered Reports, and a novel responsible conduct of research training.
Errington received his PhD in Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology from the University of Virginia, MA in Molecular and Cell Biology at University of California Berkeley, and earned a BS in Biology and Chemistry at St. Lawrence University.
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