Kim Bergmans is head of the Research Data Support department at Utrecht University Library. This department aims to facilitate culture change in research in order to embed Open & FAIR in the way of working. In doing so, the sovereignty of those with whom we work is paramount. The department's services can be divided into five areas: consultancy, data literacy (training), infrastructure, metascience and community management.

The latter is particularly visible in facilitating the Utrecht Digital Competence Centre (UDCC).

The UDCC network is the central point of contact for all questions about FAIR, data, code & software and the UDCC is the contact for the Thematic DCCs.

As of February 2025, Kim is, together with the chair, quartermaster of the UU Research Data Board.

Memberships/steering commitee:

RDA: Kim is a member of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) and serves on behalf of UU on the Organizational Assembly, which meets bi-monthly (2024-now).

RDA-NL: Kim co-organized and chaired the first meeting of the RDA-NL (Nov. 19, 2024).

AI Lab: Kim is a member of the DISC AI Lab steering committee (2023-now)

Linked Open Data Program UB steering committee: 2024.

Research IT Program steering committee: Sept 2023-Feb 2024

Data Privacy Project steering committee: July 2021-July 2023.