Daniel Spichtinger

Daniel Spichtinger obtained a joint "Magister" (Mag.phil) degree from the University of Vienna (Austria) in English, Communication Science and History (2000), writing his thesis about the global spread of English. He also obtained a Master of Arts in Contemporary European Studies from the University of Bath (UK, 2002), where he first encountered European research policy and tackled the issue of involving civil society in FP6.

After several internships in European umbrella NGOs and a stint as online editor for two Austrian newspapers he has been working on EU funded projects since 2005, in the areas of eHealth, ICT, SME support and the knowledge based bio-economy, in particular the MoniQA Network of Excellence (FP6).

Since 2012 Daniel Spichtinger is employed by the European Commission as a project and policy officer for open access to scientific peer-reviewed publications and research data. In this capacity he contributes to the development of open access policy in Horizon 2020, and the European Research Area (ERA), including for instance the design and implementation of the Open Access to Research Data Pilot in Horizon 2020. He is working in the bigger context of open science, also referred to as the changing scientific system.