Narmin Rzayeva is an external PhD candidate at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University. She is also a trainer in Research Data Management and Digital Skills at Delft University of Technology.

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Narmin Rzayeva is an external PhD candidate at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University. She works as a trainer in Research Data Management and Digital Skills at Delft University of Technology, where she designs and delivers courses that help researchers manage their data in line with the FAIR principles and Open Science practices, and work efficiently and reproducibly.

With a background in computer science, Narmin is exploring preprints as a means to accelerate the sharing of scientific knowledge. She began her research journey during the COVID-19 pandemic, contributing to the COVID-19 Rapid Review Initiative and its subsequent report, Scholarly Communication in Times of Crisis: The Response of the Scholarly Communication System to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Building on this work, her research focused on the evolving role of preprints in the scholarly publishing system—from authors' perspectives to patterns of their adoption across disciplines and regions worldwide.

Currently Narmin continues to investigate how the efficiency of scientific knowledge exchange can be improved, with preprinting as one of the key dimensions in this broader transformation. She examines the potential, benefits, and challenges of integrating preprints into journal publication workflows with varying peer review models.