Vanessa Crosby
Digital Research Infrastructure Leader
Vanessa Crosby is a leader in digital research infrastructure and scholarly communications, with a career dedicated to advancing digital transformation and open research across Australia’s research and cultural sectors. As Executive Manager, Research Services at CSIRO, she oversees national capabilities that enable world-class research, including high-performance computing, research data services, information management, and digital laboratory platforms.
Having held leadership roles across CSIRO, the Australian Museum, and the higher education sector, Vanessa brings a unique cross-sector perspective to the challenges and opportunities shaping research today. She is passionate about developing the technology, people, and governance capabilities that underpin trusted, sustainable research and preserve confidence in the scholarly record in an era of rapid technological change.
