J. Trent Alexander is the Associate Director of ICPSR and the Jerome M. Clubb Collegiate Research Professor in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Alexander is a historical demographer and builds social science data infrastructure. He is currently leading the Decennial Census Digitization and Linkage Project (joint with Katie Genadek) and ResearchDataGov (joint with Lynette Hoelter). These projects are supported by awards from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute on Aging, the U.S. Census Bureau, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Ballmer Group, and the University of Michigan’s Office of the Vice President for Research. Prior to coming to ICPSR in 2017, Alexander initiated the Census Longitudinal Infrastructure Project at the Census Bureau and managed the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) at the University of Minnesota.