Lisa Hönegger, BA BA MA

Lisa Hönegger is the deputy head of AUSSDA, a national infrastructure for archiving social science data at the universities of Vienna, Graz, Linz and Innsbruck. At the University of Vienna, she is also responsible for Open Science, the European Open Science Cloud and Research Data Management.

Dr. Alicia Fatima Gomez-Sanchez

Alicia Fátima Gómez is Library Director at the IE University in Madrid since October 2023. Prior to this, she worked as Head of Scientometrics and Data Visualization at the TU Wien, in Austria, leading the DOI Service Austria Consortium, and, together with the Universität Wien, the ORCID Austria Consortium. Furthermore, she has an extensive professional in libraries and research support gained over the years in Spain and the UK with focus in open science, research data, metrics and publishing and dissemination strategies. Alicia F. Gomez holds a PhD in Linguistics, and a Master in Digital Libraries and Information Systems.

Vanessa Hannesschläger, PhD

Vanessa Hannesschläger is a German literature and digital humanities scholar with a focus on data management and legal aspects of arts and humanities data. She holds a PhD from the University of Vienna, where she also teaches DH. As a researcher at the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, she was involved in building and maintaining the European Research Infrastructure Consortia CLARIN-ERIC and DARIAH-EU. Today she is head of European Projects of Ars Electronica Festival in Linz. Vanessa advocates for legal and data literacy as well as Open Science.

Patrick Helling, MA

Patrick Helling is a data manager at the Data Center for the Humanities (DCH) at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Cologne. He supports humanities scholars in questions on research data management (RDM) and he provides domain specific RDM services. In addition, he is part of the data management team of the DFG priority program 2207 “Computational Literary Studies”.

As data steward of the Verband “Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum” e.V. he develops a research data management strategy for the scholarly outcomes of the DHd-Community.

He is PhD-candidate at the University of Cologne. His doctoral research concerns the creation of a formal description model for domain specific research data management requirements and services for the humanities. 

Dr. Paloma Marín-Arraiza

Paloma Marín-Arraiza holds a PhD in Information Science from the State University of São Paulo (Brazil). Her PhD focused on the study of enhanced publications and data modelling. She also holds a Master's degree in Scientific Information and Communication and a licentiate degree in Physics both from the University of Granada (Spain) and a Professional Master's in Data Protection from the National Distance Education University (Spain) and the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD). She worked at the German National Library of Science and Technology (Technische Informationsbibliothek,TIB) in the area of development of non-textual materials and at the library of the Technical University of Vienna (TU Wien) as Information Manager for persistent identifiers, where she coordinated the activities of ORCID Austria and DOI-Service Austria. In 2020 she joined ORCID, where currently Engagement Manager for global consortia. She is a member of different working groups on persistent identifiers and research data management, a reviewer of journals in the field of Information Science such as "Encontros Bibli" and "AtoZ" and a lecturer in programmes focused on research data management services.

FH-Prof. Mag. Dr. Tassilo Pellegrini

Tassilo Pellegrini is co-director of the Institute for Innovation Systems and professor of economics at the University of Applied Sciences in St. Pölten, Austria.

His research areas are data economics, policy-aware web and artificial intelligence. He is member of the International Network for Information Ethics (INIE), the African Network of Information Ethics (ANIE) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPUK). He is co-founder of the Semantic Web Company in Vienna and conference chair of the annual SEMANTiCS conference series founded in 2005.

Christopher Pollin, BA MA MA

Christopher Pollin holds a Master's Degree in History and a Joint Master's Degree in Digital Cultural Heritage. He is currently a PhD student in Digital Humanities.

Since 2016, he has been working in various positions at the Centre for Information Modeling (ZIM) at the University of Graz. His work includes technical development and data modeling in various projects such as 'STEFAN ZWEIG DIGITAL', 'Open Access Database Adjective-Adverb Interfaces in Romance' or 'Digital Edition Publishing Cooperative for Historical Accounts'. His work focuses on semantic web technologies, resource discovery and web programming. In addition to teaching in these fields, his dissertation project focuses on information-based resource discovery for historical information. He is a co-founder of Digital Humanities Craft. 

Dipl.-Phys. Dr. Constanze Roedig

Cloud architecture, DevSecOps, advanced scientific computing

Dr. Constanze Roedig earned her doctorate at the Albert Einstein Institute (Max Planck) in relativistic radiation hydrodynamics and continued studying black holes at Johns Hopkins as a postdoc. She spent 8 years in the private sector as a software architect to enable companies to transition their internal systems towards transparent, performant and scalable designs. The desire to give back to the community brought her back to science in the role of the technical lead for an Austrian-wide project (https://forschungsdaten.at/en/austrian-datalab-and-services/)  to make High Performance Computing more accessible and bring cloud-native to the university system landscape. She now advocates for open standards, FAIR and open science and works as an R&D engineer on finding feasible means to unite HPC with the modern user-experience of kubernetes.

Mag. Christian Steiner, MA

Christian Steiner holds a Master’s degree in Translation (German/English/Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian) and a Joint Master’s Degree in Digital Heritage and Digital Humanities (EuroMACHS). Currently he is a PhD candidate in Digital Humanities.

Since 2012 he has been a research assistant at the Centre for Information Modelling (ZIM) at the University of Graz. His work includes technical development, data modelling and data wrangling in various DH projects. The main focus of his work is on Semantic Web technologies, Linked Data, and Web Programming. In addition to teaching in these fields, his dissertation project is about Linked Data and the potential of using Wikidata as a hub between the Life Sciences and the Humanities.

Mag. Annette Strauch-Davey

Annette Strauch-Davey (M.A.) is a cultural scientist / European ethnologist and English literature and medieval studies scholar from the Georg-August University of Göttingen. She had lived in Cardiff and Aberystwyth in Wales for 15 years after her studies (including work at the Museum of Welsh Life and the National Library of Wales). For more than 10 years she has been interested in and dealing with the research data of scientists of various disciplines, also as an important part of her scientific work. At Ulm University, in the communication and information center (kiz)
she was part of the bwFLA team working on the implementation and development of a distributed framework for emulation-based services and technologies to address Baden-Württemberg state and higher education institutes’, libraries’ and archives’ new challenges in digital long-term preservation. For the Collaborative Research Center 1187 and at the Center for Information and Media Technology (ZIMT) at the University of Siegen, she has worked intensively on research data management, where she came more and more into contact with the different requirements of the disciplines. At the University Library of Hildesheim, Annette Strauch-Davey was the contact person for RDM at the University of Hildesheim from the beginning of 2018 until the autumn of 2022 where she had built up RDM services from scratch. For many years, she was a member of the Commission for Research-Related Services of the VDB and there also dealt with Open Science and with the trustworthy handling of data of all types and formats. At the moment she is dealing with basic services for RDM in the context of NFDI and EOSC.

Diana Pilvar, BSc MSc

Diana is a data manager at the University of Tartu in Estonia and also serves as the training coordinator for the ELIXIR Estonia node. Her expertise includes training individuals in research data management, licensing, FAIR principles, metadata, README file creation, data visualisation, and the use of OpenRefine software. Additionally, she conducts workshops titled "Bring your own DMP," where she offers tailored guidance on crafting data management plans. As a data manager, she frequently provides researchers with advice on enhancing their data management strategies.

Holding a BSc in Genetic Engineering and an MSc in Bioinformatics, Diana has a strong background that includes working with sensitive personal data as well as laboratory experience in Human Molecular Genetics and Proteomics core labs. This background enables her to deeply understand the challenges faced by researchers.

Diana is committed to staying current with the latest advancements in data management and training by actively participating in related workshops and training sessions. She is dedicated to continually improving her skills and the materials she uses in her courses. An active member of the ELIXIR Research Data Management community, Diana also contributes as an editor for the RDMkit, a vital resource for life sciences researchers in data management.