Kirsten Haaland is a researcher at the UNU Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT).
She is interested in Open Source Software, Online Communities, Open Science, FAIR principles, Business Models & Business Processes. She has participated in various EU-funded projects such as Calibre, FLOSSMetrics, QualOSS, OpenSME, RISCOSS, SIMPACT, SmartEIZ, Excellence of Science and Twin4Merit.