As part of the Research Data team working on research data publishing initiatives at Springer Nature, Varsha leads the curation team at Springer Nature, and contributes to the design, development and delivery of Springer Nature’s research data training workshops. She is also responsible for curating and maintaining the Scientific Data and Springer Nature recommended repository lists. Varsha is an Executive Advisor of FAIRsharing.org, a member of CODATA’s International Data Policy committee, programme chair for the Better Research through Better Data conference series, and a co-author of the TRUST principles.