Dr Fotis Psomopoulos is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Applied Biosciences (INAB), at the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), in Thessaloniki Greece. His research interests lie at the intersection of Bioinformatics and Machine Learning, primarily working on the design and implementation of data mining algorithms for knowledge extraction from large datasets in Life Sciences. He is particularly active in training efforts and initiatives (such as the Carpentries and GOBLET) and is a member of the ELIXIR Training Platform Executive Committee, and a member of the EOSC Association OA5 on Training. Finally, he is a strong advocate of FAIR and Open Science; as applied in research software and machine learning in particular. He is a co-author of the Open Science Training Handbook and the Greek National Plan for Open Science, and is leading the ELIXIR Software Best Practices group, and the RDA FAIR for Machine Learning Interest Group.