Sarah Bratt

Sarah Bratt is an Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona College of Information Science (InfoSci), focusing on Digital Curation & Preservation. Her research explores scholarly communication, research data management, and the science of science, aiming to advance long-term data sustainability and actionable science policy.

• BS in Philosophy from Ithaca College
• MS in Library and Information Science with a Data Science certificate from Syracuse University

Her work addresses practices, metrics, and infrastructures for data-intensive science, including international collaborations and AI applications in libraries. Recent projects analyze GenBank metadata, dataset co-authorship, and software use in computational biology. She has presented at ASIS&T, 4S, ICSSI, and NetSci conferences.

• Masters’ prize in Library & Information Science at Syracuse University
• 2022 Better Scientific Software (BSSw) Fellow honorable mention

Bratt collaborates with institutions like UIUC, University of Tennessee, and Metadata Lab @Syracuse University. She co-supervises students with Dr. Cristian Román-Palacios and leads the Metadata Analytics Lab at UA.