Kristen and the Stratos team draw on 20+ years of experience in research communication, organizational strategy and technology to deliver open science solutions
The Stratos Approach
Kristen Ratan is skilled in growing mindshare and adoption for ideas, projects, and technologies.
Together with an experienced and talented network ranging from strategic consultants, financial analysts, innovative technologists, experienced creatives and meticulous product and project managers, Stratos supports the success of our clients with projects tailored to meet their goals, on time and on budget, delivered with expert advising and fully supported implementation.
Services are offered individually or packaged together. Rates are designed to fit the project and budget and discounted for nonprofits.
Partners and Projects
Michael J. Fox Foundation
- Strategic and operational support for delivery and impact evaluation of expanded open science goals
- Program and partnership development, evaluation and refinement
- Landscape monitoring and industry representation – ‘eyes and ears on the ground’
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Strategic advising on early and open sharing of discoveries to accelerate science and increase its impact
- Collaboration with researchers on their use cases to develop point of need interventions and support with Stratos partners
- Thought partnership with the HHMI team
Health Research Alliance
- Leadership in organizing and educating science funders on open science policy and practice
- Webinar series with experts to address member needs
- Development of member best practices for data sharing
Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP)
Stratos partnered with this leading funding initiative to build and embed best practice open science from the ground up. Stratos designed a Research Output Management System that tracks compliance and derives new metrics to incentivize open science activities among grantees.
Incentivizing Collaborative Open Research (ICOR)
Stratos, in partnership with Rapid Science, HHMI, and Janelia, launched a group of change agents from the open science landscape to move from discussion to action in flipping research open. Find out more about ICOR’s goals and projects.
Next Gen Library Publishing Partnership
Stratos is a key partner in Educopia’s project to provide new publishing pathways for authors, editors, and readers by advancing and integrating open source publishing infrastructure to provide robust support for library publishing.