Levente Kontra is the leader of the Bioinformatics Core facility at the HUN-REN Institute of Experimental Medicine (KOKI) since 2023. From 2024 he preforms data steward roles as well, supporting the data publish throughout the KOKI. Early in his PhD studies he moved to the field of molecular biology, specifically genomics. He worked as a researcher in this field for a few years and it is the focus of his group. This scientific field has a decades of good practice sharing data and organizing it into interoperable and easy to find structures.

As every data steward in the HUN-REN network Levente's role is to help our researchers how to adhere to the open science principles. Which includes sharing not just their findings but raw and intermediary data. Most of the time researchers would like to further prove their findings and ensure reproducibility by sharing their data, but find it time consuming. Levente helps, how to best publish data, what are reliable platforms and also how to organize the project from the beginning to make data sharing as straight forward as possible. This puts the researchers of KOKI at an advantage when applying for grants.