Researcher Spotlight
Avery Mickalide
Avery was born in Maine and received his PhD in physics from the University of Illinois in 2019. After traveling for half a year and then living at home, he moved to Silicon Valley to start a job as a computational biologist and founded the organization STEM Strikes for Peace (stemstrikesforpeace.org).
What do you see as the primary benefit to you of archiving your data in a repository?
“I poured myself, heart and soul into generating the dataset for this paper. It seems wrong for its usefulness to stop now that I graduated and a paper has been published. Depositing the dataset into the Illinois Data Bank gives me the feeling that my work in graduate school had purpose, that other scientists can pick up the torch where I left off.”