About

Brief Biography

Dr. Martin Halbert is a Professor and Research Fellow at UNC Greensboro.  He has an interdisciplinary PhD from Emory University.  His research and primary areas of expertise include digital scholarship in the humanities, research library services, and building inter-institutional collaborative alliances for new research functions.  

Halbert served as the NSF Science Advisor for Public Access from 2020-2024.  In this role he led the programmatic activities of the National Science Foundation aimed at advancing the understanding and adoption of open science practices utilizing public access mechanisms, and agency efforts to ensure that research products arising from NSF-funded projects are publicly accessible.

Halbert has previously worked for Emory University, Rice University, UT Austin, UNC Greensboro, the University of North Texas, and the IBM Corporation.  He has been principal investigator for grants and contracts totaling more than $7 million, funding more than a dozen large-scale collaborative projects among many educational institutions, with a special focus on information systems in digital humanities.  He served as Dean of Libraries at both the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the University of North Texas.  He founded the Educopia Institute, an educational nonprofit that advances the well-being of libraries by fostering the advancement of shared information systems and infrastructures.  Halbert led one of the founding projects of the U.S. National Digital Preservation Program beginning in the first years of the 21st Century.