Dr. Juan Antonio Vizcaíno is leading the Proteomics Team at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI, Cambridge, UK). His group is responsible of the development of the PRIDE database (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pride/), the world-leading public repository for mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics data, and related tools and resources. In addition, he co-founded and is coordinating the ProteomeXchange Consortium (http://www.proteomexchange.org/), standardizing data submission and dissemination in proteomics resources worldwide. He actively promotes open data policies in the proteomics field and has participated in multiple studies where public proteomics datasets are reused for different purposes, including the application of “big data” approaches. Additionally, over the years, he has heavily contributed to the development of open proteomics data standard formats and related software, under the umbrella of the HUPO Proteomics Standards Initiative (PSI). He is also co-leading the ELIXIR Proteomics Community https://elixireurope.org/communities/proteomics) in Europe. Furthermore, he has co-organised the annual Proteomics Bioinformatics course at EMBL-EBI since 2009. Overall, he has authored over 155 peer-reviewed scientific publications, which have accumulated >28,000 citations so far.