Tracey Weissgerber is the team leader for the EXCELScIOR ERA Chair metaresearch team, and an Invited Research Coordinator, at the University of Coimbra. While she was trained as a physiologist, she currently focuses on metaresearch. Her team’s work on data visualization has led to policy changes in many journals. Other research priorities include enhancing the reproducibility and reusability of methods and protocols, creating automated tools to detect common problems and beneficial practices in research publications, and developing programs to reward graduate students for implementing reproducible, reusable and open practices in their thesis.