Oliver Knodel

Oliver Knodel is a researcher at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) within the Department of Information Services and Computing, specializing in Scientific Data Management. He holds a Dr.-Ing. in Computer Science from Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) and leads initiatives focused on metadata standardization, open science, and FAIR data principles. His work involves developing scalable training portal federation systems like mTeSS-X, which addresses fragmentation of training resources across European Research Infrastructures (RIs) by enabling multi-tenancy and cross-instance content exchange.

• Key projects: Semantic x-Lab, OSCARS, HELIPORT, HERMES, and Software CaRD
• Primary responsibilities: Metadata lifecycle management, computational workflows, and documentation of experiments
• Collaborates with institutions including ELIXIR, PaNOSC, and University of Manchester
• Active in promoting FAIR training resources and open science solutions