The GOSI team
The GOSI team is an informal association of researchers and students from the universities in Graz. In addition to the overall team and supporting members, we have a proactive core team.
GOSI team and supporters
GOSI consists of a broad spectrum of members and supporters. Those are both students and researchers at the universities in Graz and beyond. GOSI also has ties to the Arqus Open Science Ambassador Network.
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Core team
The GOSI core team makes suggestions for open science events, discusses them and actively implements them. Anyone who wants to get more involved in open science can join the GOSI core team. From experience, however, we recommend looking at GOSI as a supporter first.
Current core team (2024/25):
Gabriela Hofer is a founding member of GOSI and works at the Department of Psychology in the Differential Psychology section as a research assistant, where she also completed her doctorate in 2022. She is currently researching topics on gender.
Hilmar Brohmer is also a founding member of GOSI. He received his doctorate from the Department of Psychology in Social Psychology in 2020 and is currently working as a post-doc in environmental psychology and meta science.
Živa Korda studied in the Netherlands and finished her PhD at the Department of Psychology (Creative Cognition Lab). She is now doing eye-tracking reserach in the General Psychology section. She joined GOSI in 2022 and was also active as a PhD student representative.
Carmen Pizka has been a GOSI member since summer 2025. She is a doctoral candidate in General Psychology and works in the NeuroVision Lab on the technical intricacies of neuroscientific data. In addition, she is interested in methodological and statistical aspects of research.
Eva Boehlke joined GOSI in summer 2026. Before that, she studied Psychology in Graz and began her PhD in the Digital Psychology Lab in 2025, where she focused on the mechanisms of gamification in learning contexts.
Supporters:
Shiva Taghizadeh, Thomas Kanatschnig, Jonas Potthoff, Mina Movahedi, Georg Krammer, Christian Kaier, Hildrun Walter and Helmut Klug
Former members
GOSI was founded in 2018 by Gabriela Hofer, Hilmar Brohmer and Tony Ross-Hellauer. Other members quickly joined. Over time, some had to leave GOSI due to other obligations. Here we would like to pay tribute to former members, without whom we would not have been able to plan and organize past events:
Former members: Hannah Metzler, Stefan Reichmann, Tony Ross-Hellauer, Piyush Gajananrao Gampawar, Sara Felber, Sarah Stryeck, Sandra Grinschgl, Sarah von Götz
About GOSI's Work
GOSI members have documented their experiences with the initiative in two articles in the book “Open Science—Opportunity or Challenge”, edited by Elisabeth Stadler and Helmut Klug and published by Graz University Library Publishing:
In “Bringing Open Science to Researchers and Students - Perspectives from Three Initiatives at the University of Graz”, both GOSI and other researchers share their experiences on how they were able to make open science more accessible.
In “The State of Study Preregistration”, the GOSI members Hilmar Brohmer, Gabriela Hofer, and Sarah von Götz describe how to preregister a study and dispel numerous misconceptions about this important practice.
