Lea Gerhards

Dr. Lea Gerhards is a Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID), serving as Product Manager for the disciplinary repository PsychArchives. She leads strategic development and stakeholder coordination for this platform, focusing on quality assurance, metadata standards, and user-oriented curation practices. Her work integrates academic policy, open science infrastructure, and interdisciplinary collaboration to advance research data management in psychology.

Key projects include the BMBF-funded PsyCuraDat initiative, which developed metadata standards for psychological research data, and the PODMAN project addressing institutional RDM service landscapes. She actively engages in conferences like the International Conference on Open Repositories and contributes to workshops on data sharing and open access publishing.

Gerhards' research interests span metadata standards, open access practices, and repository management. She has co-authored over 10 publications since 2020, focusing on topics like curation frameworks, data lifecycle management, and access regulation in disciplinary repositories.