Klaus Tochtermann
Klaus Tochtermann studied computer science in Kiel, Dortmund (Germany) and at
Texas A&M (USA). From 2004 to 2010 KlausTochtermann was full professor for knowledge
management and knowledge technologies at the Graz University of Technology (Austria).
Since 2010, Klaus Tochtermann has been Director of the ZBW – Leibniz Information
Centre for Economics in Kiel and Hamburg and holds a professorship for Digital Information
Infrastructures at Kiel University. The ZBW is the world‘s largest information infrastructure
for scientific information in economics, both online and offline.
His research focuses on Open Science, digital information infrastructures and research data management.
Klaus Tochtermann is involved in national and European committees and initiatives on
the topic of Open Science and research data management. These include the GO FAIR
initiative, which Germany launched together with the Netherlands and France to establish
the FAIR principles for research data. Among others, he is also a member of the scientific
senate of the National Research Data Infrastructure in Germany and a member of the Board of Directors of the European Open
Science Cloud Association.
