Birgit Schmidt
Head Of Knowledge Commons at University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover
Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolBirgit Schmidt is a senior leader in scholarly communication and open science with over 15 years advancing institutional and international open research infrastructures from Göttingen. As Head of Knowledge Commons at the University of Göttingen she combines strategic leadership with hands‑on coordination of major initiatives like OpenAIRE, ENLIGHT RISE and EOSC task forces, and serves on executive boards (LIBER, OpenAIRE) shaping policy and practice. Her track record spans project leadership, advisory roles and teaching, including an honorary professorship and longtime course instruction on open access and archives. She brings rare cross‑cutting expertise across repositories, research data management and community networks, having been the first Executive Director of COAR and a persistent driver of RDA and Knowledge Exchange activities. Based in Göttingen, she pairs a doctoral background in mathematics/philosophy with a pragmatic focus on embedding open science at institution scale. Colleagues value her blend of coalition‑building, policy influence and operational delivery across EU and global open science ecosystems.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. math. Mathematics Philosophy, Dr. math. Mathematics Philosophy at Bielefeld UniversityMA LIS Library and Information Science, MA LIS Library and Information Science at Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinLIBER Leadership Seminar
German, English
Github Skills (10)
ecology9
stable7
r7
data-wrangling6
visualization5
data-visualization5
data-visualisation4
governance4
data-science4
data-analysis4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gitti1/ENLIGHT_OS
May 2022 - May 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
gitti1/LC_survey
Jan 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:13 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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