Carly Robinson, Senior Policy Fellow
Carly Robinson is a Senior Policy Fellow at SPARC. She leads SPARCs efforts to advance policies related to persistent identifiers (PIDs) and metadata standards and contributes more broadly to SPARC’s policy work on open research. Her role also includes exploring the intersection of AI and research access policies, as well as collaborating with SPARC’s broader advocacy team.
Carly worked for nearly 10 years in the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), serving as Assistant Director for Information Products and Service from 2019-2025. She was a representative on the White House National Science and Technology Council’s Subcommittee on Open Science, co-chairing subgroups on both persistent identifiers and open science infrastructure and providing PID subject matter expertise. She also serves on governance bodies, working groups, and advisory committees for various PID organizations.
Prior to DOE OSTI, she was a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow in the U.S. Senate and then the DOE Office of Science where she helped develop DOE’s first policy for digital research data management. She also has past experience working in the Office of Government Relations at the University of Colorado.
Carly has a Ph.D. and master’s degree in atmospheric chemistry from the University of Colorado, and a bachelor’s degree in applied physics from Michigan Technological University.