Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. Wolfram Horstmann

Contact

Prof. Dr. Wolfram Horstmann

President & CEO

Phone:

+49 7247 808 102

wolfram.horstmann [at] fiz-karlsruhe.de

Committees, boards and professional appointments

since 2024: President & CEO of FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure
since 2017: Honorary Professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2014–2023: Director, Göttingen State and University Library, Germany
2012–2014: Associate Director, Digital Library Programmes and Information Technologies, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, UK
2009: Awarded German Library HiTech Price (Emerald Publishing)
2007–2011: Chief Information Officer for Scholarly Information at Bielefeld University / Bielefeld University Library, Germany
2006–2007: EU Project Manager, Göttingen State and University Library, Germany
2005–2006: Head of Publishing Services, Academic Library Center hbz, Cologne, Germany
2002–2004: Dr. phil. nat., Faculty of Biology, Bielefeld University, Germany. Doctoral Thesis: “Explaining Brains by Simulation”
1998–2004: Research Assistant in Neurobiology and manager of numerous projects on “Educational Simulations in Neural and Cognitive Sciences”, Bielefeld University, Germany
1993–1998: Diploma in Biology, Faculty of Biology, Bielefeld University, Germany. Specialisation: Computational Neuroscience

Committees, boards and professional appointments

since 2025: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the online thematic portal “Compensation for National Socialist Injustice” within Archivportal D of the DDB
since 2024: member of the Board of Trustees of Deutsches Museum, Munich
since 2023: Research Data Alliance (RDA): Board of Directors (2013 – 2023: RDA Europe, RDA Organisational Advisory Board, Libraries for Research Data (Chair), Long Tail of Research Data (Chair)); since July 2024: member of the Board of the RDA Association AISBL (RDA Europe)
since 2023: Board Member of Göttinger Urheberrechtstagung
since 2022: Chair of the Committee on Scientific Library Services and Information Systems (AWBI) of the German Research Foundation (DFG), member since 2018
since 2022: Competence Centre for Bibliometrics (Kompetenzzentrum Bibliometrie), chair of the consortium meeting
2022 – 2023: Geistes- und kulturwissenschaftliche Forschungsinfrastrukturen e.V. (in formation; formerly Text-Grid e.V.), interim chair (as Text-Grid- chair since 2015)
since 2021: Campus Institute Data Science Göttingen (founding member, a.o)
since 2021: Jio Institute Digital Library (India): Advisory Board
2021 – 2023: European Open Science Cloud (EOSC-Association), representative of the University of Göttingen, since 2020 Working Group / Task Force "Rules of Participation"
2021 – 2023: National Research Data Infrastructure (Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (NFDI e.V.), representative of the University of Göttingen
2021 – 2022: CCSD (Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe, CNRS/INRIA/INRAE), International Committee
since 2020: Helmholtz Metadata Cooperation, Chair of the Evaluation Committee
since 2018: Member of the Stanford Libraries Advisory Council
2018 – 2023: Member of the Dryad Board of Directors
2018 – 2022: Member of the HathiTrust Research Center Advisory Board
2018 – 2021: Member of the DuraSpace Board of Directors, Member of the Lyrasis Board of Directors
2017 – 2025: Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz)/Berlin State Library: Advisory Board
since 2017: Honorary professor at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science of the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin (lecturer 2014 – 2017)
2017 – 2023: Member of the CERL (Consortium of European Research Libraries) Board of Directors
2015 –2023: Seat in the Standing Committee Future of the Digital Information in Research and Development (German Rectors' Conference)
2015 – 2023: Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) Executive Board
2015 – 2023: Steering Group of the Priority Initiative „Digital Information” of the Allianz der Wissenschaftsorganisationen (Alliance of Science Organisations) in Germany
2014 – 2023: Coordination Centre for Scientific University Collections in Germany (Koordinierungsstelle für wissenschaftliche Universitätssammlungen (Advisory Board)
2014 – 2023: Göttingen eResearch Alliance (Co-Lead)
2014 – 2023: Göttingen University Press Editorial Board (Chair)
2014 – 2022: Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH) Executive Board
2014 – 2020: German Initiative for Network Information (DINI) Steering Committee
since 2013: Nature Scientific Data Advisory Panel
2013 – 2020: LIBER Executive Board; Steering Committee on Scholarly Communication and Research Infrastructures (Chair)
2013 – 2014: Digital Preservation Coalition, Member of the Board of Directors
2012 – 2014: University of Oxford: Information Technology Committee, representing Academic Services and University Collections; Research Information Management, Sub-Committee to Research Services
2011 – 2017: EMBL-EBI, Literature Services Advisory Board, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK
2010: Commission "Future of Information Infrastructure" (by order of the Gemeinsame Wissenschaftskonferenz, Joint Science Conference)

Contact

Prof. Dr. Wolfram Horstmann

President & CEO

Phone:

+49 7247 808 102

wolfram.horstmann [at] fiz-karlsruhe.de