Dasapta Erwin Irawan
Institut Teknologi Bandung Researcher
Indonesia
Dr Dasapta Erwin Irawan is an assistant professor in hydrogeology. He works as an
active researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Earth Sciences and Technology,
Institut Teknologi Bandung. He focuses his research on translating hydrochemical data to understand the underlying hydrogeological system. He is also actively participating in promoting the open science movement and the importance of
science communications to Indonesia's research ecosystem.
Various national and international talks have been delivered by him to raise the awareness of freedom in research and publishing. In 2017 with some diverse colleagues, he created the INArxiv as the first preprint server in Indonesia (
osf.io/preprints/inarxiv) with the support of the
Center for Open Science. Under a collaboration with Indonesia Science Institute (LIPI) and Indonesia Open Science Team; he also led the initiation of RINarxiv (
rinarxiv.lipi.go.id). Currently, he actively serves as a member of the advisory board for
ON-MERRIT,
Open Knowledge Maps, and a Team member of
AsapBio. You can see a list of his works on
ORCID.