Services and Technology Steering Group (STSG)

Torsten Reimer is University Librarian and Dean of the University Library at the University of Chicago. He holds a PhD from the University and Munich and has a background in digital humanities and scholarly communication, having dedicated much of his work to research infrastructure. Before joining UChicago, Torsten was a member of the leadership team at the British Library, where he oversaw content and research services, including the UK DataCite consortium and the BL’s repositories. In previous roles, he worked at Imperial College London, Jisc, King’s College London and the Bavarian State Library in Munich.

Dr. Hylke Koers is the Chief Information Officer for STM Solutions, which develops and manages shared infrastructures and collaborative services to support the scholarly communications community. Before joining STM, Hylke worked in several senior technology and product management roles, in both private and public sector organizations, supporting the research community. Hylke has held leading roles in FAIRsFAIR, the Research Data Alliance and served on the EOSC Architecture Working Group. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Amsterdam.

Jens Klump is a geochemist by training and leads the Exploration Through Cover Research Group in CSIRO Mineral Resources based in Perth, Western Australia. In his work on data infrastructures, Jens covers the entire chain of digital value creation from data acquisition to data analysis with a focus on data in minerals exploration. Jens earned degrees in geology and in oceanography from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and received his PhD in marine geology from the University of Bremen, Germany. Before joining CSIRO, Jens was a senior researcher at the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam – GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences.

Anne works at the University of Maryland for NASA’s Planetary Data System (PDS) as a data standards expert and metadata engineer. She focuses on issues of discoverability, reusability, and interoperability both within the PDS and among the national planetary archives that comprise the International Planetary Data Alliance.

Joe is head of software development at Crossref. His focus is on maintaining Crossref’s services and API whilst building a new generation of systems that embraces the Research Nexus philosophy. He’s worked at Crossref for nearly a decade. He started in the R&D team, building Crossref’s Event Data services in collaboration with DataCite.

Sarala is responsible for the technical and product vision at DataCite. She leads the technical and product teams to deliver DataCite services. She collaborates with external and internal stakeholders to improve existing member services and identify potential member service opportunities. She has been working with the Open Science and PID communities for many years. Before joining DataCite, Sarala spent ten years at the EMBL-EBI leading multiple data integration projects including the Identifiers.org resource. She holds a PhD in Bioengineering and a BE in Software Engineering from the University of Auckland.