Klaus Tochtermann

Dr. Klaus Tochtermann serves as Director of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics and Professor of Media Informatics at the University of Kiel. After completing his doctorate in computer science with distinction at Dortmund University in 1995, he conducted postdoctoral research at Texas A&M University's Center for Digital Libraries. His career includes founding Austria's first industry-based research institute on knowledge management (Know-Center) and serving as professor for knowledge management at Graz University of Technology. Since 2010, he has led the ZBW while advancing research in Science 2.0, Open Science, and semantic technologies. His contributions include supervising over 25 PhD theses and publishing more than 230 peer-reviewed papers. He serves on numerous prestigious boards, including the Scientific Senate of the German National Research Data Infrastructure and the EOSC Association Board of Directors. As a visiting professor at institutions like the University of St. Gallen and Universiti Teknologi MARA, he continues to shape digital information infrastructure development internationally.