Prof. Dr. Sonja Schimmler

About

Sonja Schimmler is a visiting professor for research data infrastructure at Technische Universität Berlin. At the same time, she is research group lead at Fraunhofer FOKUS.

She is involved in various third-party funded projects. She is engaged in the NFDI initiative (National Research Data Infrastructure), as spokesperson for the NFDI4DataScience consortium and as co-spokesperson for the Common Infrastructures section, the Base4NFDI initiative and the NFDI4Cat consortium. She is also active in the BUA (Berlin University Alliance), responsible for the project “A Digital Research Space for the BUA“ and at the Weizenbaum Institute, as Principal Investigator of the research group “Digitalization and Opening up of Science“.

Her research focuses on the digitalization and opening up of science. She puts a special emphasis on research data infrastructures. Her research interests range from Semantic Web and Linked Data over Data Science and Artificial Intelligence to Software Engineering and Human-Centered Computing.

She studied computer science at the Technical University of Munich and at the Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) and received her doctorate at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich.

Memberships, committees and functions

• Scientific advisory board. FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure (since January 2024)
• Advisory board NFDI-MatWerk, NFDI4Energy, NFDIxCS. Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (since January 2024)
• Scientific Counsil. Deutsche Initiative für Netzwerkinformation (since January 2024)
• Spokesperson Initiative Base4NFDI. Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (since January 2023)
• Member Task Force Data Science & Data Literacy. German Informatics Society (since January 2023)
• Scientific advisory board. ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences (since January 2022)
• Scientific advisory board. Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) (since January 2022)
• Member Open Science Working Group. G7 (from January 2021 until December 2023)
• Member Board of Trustees. Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (from January 2021 until December 2025)
• Spokesperson Section Common Infrastructures of NFDI e.V. Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (since January 2021)
• Spokesperson Consortium NFDI4DataScience. NFDI4DS (since January 2021)
• Member Working Group Open Research. Weizenbaum Institute (since January 2020) https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/institut/leitbild/offene-forschung/arbeitsgruppe-offene-forschung/
• Co-Spokesperson Consortium NFDI4Cat. Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (since January 2020)
• Member Working Group on Science Indicators. Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (since January 2019)
• Membership Association for Computing Machinery
• Membership IEEE Computer Society
• Membership German Informatics Society