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Central Data Facility
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Governance Structure

graphical overview of the CDF governance strucrure

Steering Committee:

Managing Director: Prof. Dr. Stefan Rensing (Term of office: June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2027)

Advisory Board

  1. Four representatives from the faculties
    • Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hess (Faculty of Biology, representative of the DFG Subject Classification in Life Sciences)
    • Prof. Dr. Markus Weiler (Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, representative of the DFG Subject Classification System for Natural Sciences)
    • Prof. Dr. Rolf Backofen (Faculty of Engineering, representative of the DFG Subject Classification System for Engineering Sciences)
    • Prof. Dr. Achim Rabus (Faculty of Philology, representative of the DFG Subject Classification System for Humanities and Social Sciences)
  2. A representative of the Freiburg Center for Data Analysis, Modeling and AI
    • Prof. Dr. Harald Binder
  3. A representative from the area of large IT service providers (e.g., Galaxy, NEMO, bwSFS)
    • Daniela Schneider (Galaxy)
  4. A representative from the de.NBI or from one of the NFDI consortia (co-)coordinated at the university
    • Dr. Björn Grüning (de.NBI and NFDI)
  5. Two representatives of the university research centers
    • Prof. Dr. Joschka Bödecker (BrainLinks-BrainTools)
    • Prof. Dr. Claudine Kraft (CIBSS)
  6. One representative from the committees of the university’s priority areas
    • no nomination

The term of office begins on June 1, 2025, and ends on May 31, 2028.