Patrick Fuhrmann
Professor at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
Greater Hamburg Area Germany
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Top SchoolPatrick Fuhrmann is a professor and seasoned data management and storage specialist with over 21 years of experience leading large-scale research infrastructure and cloud initiatives. He currently combines academic teaching at HTW Berlin with strategic leadership at DESY, where he heads the Research and Innovation in Computing group that tracks emerging computing technologies and drives virtualization, IaaS/PaaS adoption and ML explorations. Patrick has coordinated major European projects (ExPaNDS, eXtreme DataCloud, INDIGO) and led community platforms like dCache, shaping FAIR data, federated services and Helmholtz-wide data workflows. He brings rare operational depth across project management, distributed storage systems and middleware while also influencing policy and federation through roles in EGI and HIFIS. Known for bridging hands-on technical work with organizational strategy, he applies physics-trained rigor (Dr. rer. nat., RWTH Aachen) to tackle data lifecycle and reproducibility challenges at scale. An outspoken proponent of open science, he has quietly steered several community standards and tools that underpin European research data infrastructures.
21 years of coding experience
Dr. rer. nat. Physics, Dr. rer. nat. Physics at RWTH Aachen University
Github Skills (11)
nodes9
dcache8
filesystem8
storage8
java8
data-exchange8
blockchain6
webdav5
glusterfs5
persistent-storage5
markdown1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
patrickfuhrmann/praxis-plueckelmann.de
Mar 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
patrickfuhrmann/oai-pmh-view
May 2024 - Jun 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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