Dr Hans Pfeiffenberger
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Dr. Hans Pfeiffenberger is an independent consultant on scientific data infrastructures and policies. Until recently, he led the Information Systems and IT Infrastructure Department at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. Hans has been chair of the Helmholtz Open Science working group, has advised the Knowledge Exchange and chaired the Science Europe policy working group on Access to Research Data. He is also founder and now member of the advisory board of the journal Earth System Science Data, an early data journal providing quality assurance to published data through peer review and proper academic recognition for data "authors". He received his doctoral degree in Physics from the Technical University of Hannover - now Leibniz University Hannover - (1987). (see also: www.hans-pfeiffenberger.de