Ursula Pieper, IT Specialist at the National Agricultural Library (ARS/USDA) in Beltville, MD, leads a small team of Drupal developers in the applications branch of the library, and is the technical lead of the Ag Data Commons, a catalog and repository for scientific data. Her previous positions have been researcher and scientific programmer in a computational biology lab at the University of California, San Francisco, and at Rockefeller University, New York (Development of ModBase, a database of protein structure models); and post-doctoral researcher at the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (crystallography). Ursula Pieper hold a Ph. D. in Chemistry from the University of Göttingen, Germany.
