Dasapta Erwin Irawan is a researcher and lecturer in hydrogeology. He works at Applied Geology Research Group, Faculty of Earth Sciences and Technology, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia. His research mainly focused at multivariate statistics in hydrochemistry. Aside to his main activity, he also keenly work on promoting open science to Indonesian scholars. He founded the INArxiv and had actively contributed his thoughts to international initiatives, such as: OpenScienceMOOC and Open Science Framework.