Elisabeth Bik
Dutch microbiologist who finds manipulated images in scientific papers.
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- Elisabeth Bik is a Dutch microbiologist and science integrity consultant.
- She is known for finding duplicated and manipulated images in published research and has flagged over 4,000 possible cases of improper research conduct.
- She worked at Stanford University from 2001 to 2016 on the human microbiome, then at uBiome, and after leaving uBiome in 2018 turned to research integrity full time.
- She founded the blogs Microbiome Digest and Science Integrity Digest, and won the John Maddox Prize in 2021.
Key facts
- Work
- Science integrity consultant, full time after leaving uBiome in 20181
- Earlier
- Stanford University (David Relman's lab) from 2001 to 2016; uBiome from 2016 to 20181
- Blogs
- Science Integrity Digest; Microbiome Digest (from 2014)1
- Award
- John Maddox Prize (2021)1
- Education
- MSc and PhD in microbiology, Utrecht University (1996)1
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