Alexandra Stam

Alexandra Stam is a senior researcher at FORS (Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences) since 2009, working within the Data Management and Archive Services (DMAS) unit. She is leading the Data Management Services (DMS) group, and is particularly interested in open research data and the promotion of good data management practices throughout the research life cycle. Trained as a geographer, her research interests are on new forms of migration, particularly student mobility, and marriage migration. She completed a PhD in 2011 on 'marriage migration and the geographies of love', combining both quantitative and qualitative methods.