Hans Pfeiffenberger

Hans Pfeiffenberger is head of IT infrastructure at the Alfred Wegener Institut for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and speaker of the Helmholtz Association’s Open Access working group, where he specializes in access to data. Hans represents Helmholtz’ interest in access to data in various bodies, such as the Priority Initiative “Digital Information” by the Alliance of German Science Organizations and the Alliance for permanent Access (APA). In 2008, he convinced the publisher Copernicus to start a data publishing journal, Earth System Science Data (ESSD). He is active in a number of Helmholtz- and EU-projects, such as MaNIDA, ODE and APARSEN. He holds a PhD in physics.