Services and Technology Steering Group (STSG)

Torsten Reimer is University Librarian and Dean of the University Library at the University of Chicago. He holds a PhD from the University and Munich and has a background in digital humanities and scholarly communication, having dedicated much of his work to research infrastructure. Before joining UChicago, Torsten was a member of the leadership team at the British Library, where he oversaw content and research services, including the UK DataCite consortium and the BL’s repositories. In previous roles, he worked at Imperial College London, Jisc, King’s College London and the Bavarian State Library in Munich.

Pascal is an active member of the DSpace community, a widely used open access repository software. He is a member of the DSpace Steering, Leadership and Committer Group, and developed support for DOI registration with DataCite in DSpace. In 2015 he founded The Library Code, a Platinum DSpace service provider, which he leads as CEO.

Brian Joseph Geiger has spent most of the past decade as a software engineer for the Center for Open Science. There he currently develops for the front end of the Open Science Framework, though his biggest accomplishment was bringing the public API for OSF to life.

Esther Jackson is the Scholarly Communications Technology Librarian at Columbia University Libraries, where she primarily works with the repository (Academic Commons) and supports the Digital Publishing Program. In addition to her work with researchers, code, and metadata, she is an active member of the Wiki-verse, including serving as a committee member of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Regional Fund for North America.

Sebastian Karcher is the Associate Director of the Qualitative Data Repository and Research Assistant Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University. His main interests are in research transparency, management and curation of qualitative data, and the integration of technology into scholarly workflows. He is an active contributor to several scholarly open source projects, including Zotero and the Citation Style Language, and has taught widely on digital technology and data management. Sebastian’s work has been published widely in social science journals such as International Studies Quarterly and Socio-Economic Review as well as information science journals such as Nature Scientific Data and Data Science Journal. His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), and the Sloan Foundation.

Dr. Hylke Koers is the Chief Information Officer for STM Solutions, which develops and manages shared infrastructures and collaborative services to support the scholarly communications community. Before joining STM, Hylke worked in several senior technology and product management roles, in both private and public sector organizations, supporting the research community. Hylke has held leading roles in FAIRsFAIR, the Research Data Alliance and served on the EOSC Architecture Working Group. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Amsterdam.

Jens Klump is a geochemist by training and leads the Exploration Through Cover Research Group in CSIRO Mineral Resources based in Perth, Western Australia. In his work on data infrastructures, Jens covers the entire chain of digital value creation from data acquisition to data analysis with a focus on data in minerals exploration. Jens earned degrees in geology and in oceanography from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and received his PhD in marine geology from the University of Bremen, Germany. Before joining CSIRO, Jens was a senior researcher at the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam – GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences.

Allen Lee is a computer scientist and research software engineer at Arizona State University’s School of Complex Adaptive Systems. He provides technical vision and leadership for open science initiatives like the Network for Computational Modeling in the Social and Ecological Sciences, the Open Modeling Foundation, is engaged in research in collective action and the commons and serves as a Software and Data Carpentries instructor and lesson maintainer for the Plotting and Programming in Python and Good Enough Practices in Scientific Computing lessons.

Rory has been involved in the development of research data management for the past 20 years. As the CEO of Research Space, he has overseen the evolution of RSpace from an electronic lab notebook to a digital research platform that enables the FAIRification of research data. RSpace is distinguished by an open architecture that facilitates connectivity and interoperability with other research tools and researchers. A specific focus is on integrations with data repositories, including Dataverse, Zenodo, Dryad, and Figshare, and data management planning tools, such as DMPTool, Argos, DMPoniine, and Data Stewardship Wizard.

Ian Mathews is the CEO and co-founder of Redivis, a data platform focused on the needs of academic research. He envisions a world where data are widely accessible and believes that well-designed, researcher-focused software will be critical to making this happen. Prior to his work at Redivis, Ian worked with global health researchers and data journalists as he taught himself software development and the tools of interactive data visualization. Ian holds BAs in Public Policy and Economics from Stanford University.

Anne works at the University of Maryland for NASA’s Planetary Data System (PDS) as a data standards expert and metadata engineer. She focuses on issues of discoverability, reusability, and interoperability both within the PDS and among the national planetary archives that comprise the International Planetary Data Alliance.

Tim Robertson has a background in engineering and data infrastructure and leads the informatics activities at the secretariat of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). GBIF operates an open data infrastructure that allows anyone, anywhere in the world to search and access evidence-based species occurrence data.

Uwe is responsible for the development of the technical infrastructure at PANGAEA, Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science, hosted by MARUM, University of Bremen. His main focus is on describing datasets with metadata, their discovery, and standards around FAIR sharing. He is also an active project member of several search-related open-source products like Apache Lucene, Apache Solr, Apache POI and contributes to related projects like Opensearch/Elasticsearch and Apache TIKA. In his former life, he studied physics at the University of Erlangen/Nuremberg.

Joe is head of software development at Crossref. His focus is on maintaining Crossref’s services and API whilst building a new generation of systems that embraces the Research Nexus philosophy. He’s worked at Crossref for nearly a decade. He started in the R&D team, building Crossref’s Event Data services in collaboration with DataCite.

Sarala is responsible for the technical and product vision at DataCite. She leads the technical team to deliver DataCite services. She collaborates with external and internal stakeholders to improve existing member services and identify potential member service opportunities. She has been working with the Open Science and PID communities for many years. Before joining DataCite, Sarala spent ten years at the EMBL-EBI leading multiple data integration projects including the Identifiers.org resource. She holds a PhD in Bioengineering and a BE in Software Engineering from the University of Auckland.