Richard Marciano is RENCI chief scientist for persistent archives and digital preservation.  His home base is in the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at UNC Chapel Hill, where he is a professor. Marciano is principal investigator on several RENCI-managed cyberinfrastructure projects: TIP (TUCASI data-Infrastructure Project) funded by the board of the Triangle Universities Center for Advanced Studies, Inc. (TUCASI) through the Research Triangle Foundation board; PoDRI (Policy-Driven Repository Interoperability) funded by Institute of Museum and Library Services, and (3) CI-BER (CyberInfrastructure for Billions of Electronic Records), funded by National Science Foundation Office of Cyberinfrastructure and the National Archives and Records Administration.

Marciano holds a Ph.D. and master’s degree in computer science, degrees in electrical engineering and avionics, and a postdoc in computational geography.