Biography

Sonja Schimmler is a visiting professor for research data infrastructure at Technical University of Berlin. At the same time, she is research group lead at Fraunhofer FOKUS and principal investigator at Weizenbaum Institute.

She is involved in various third-party funded projects. She is engaged in the NFDI initiative (National Research Data Infrastructure), as spokesperson for the NFDI4DataScience consortium and the Common Infrastructures section, and as co-spokesperson of the Base4NFDI initiative and the NFDI4Cat consortium. She is also active in the BUA (Berlin University Alliance) and the EOSC (European Open Science Cloud).

Her research centers on the digitalization and opening up of science, with a special emphasis on data infrastructures and services designed for interdisciplinary, data-intensive research in the era of generative AI.

She studied computer science at the Technical University of Munich and at the Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) and earned her doctorate from the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich.