Quoc-Tan Tran holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Hamburg and an MRes in Library and Information Science from the University of Lille. He is a former Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow in the POEM network (Participatory Memory Practices) and he has been a postdoctoral researcher at Bielefeld University since 2025, working on the ROARA project (Repercussions of Open Access on Research Assessment). His research areas include open culture, data infrastructure, and the sociology of scientific knowledge.