Ralph Müller-Pfefferkorn

Ralph Müller-Pfefferkorn is Head of the Department of Distributed and Data Intensive Computing at the Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing, Technische Universität Dresden. His work focuses on data management, metadata systems, and high-performance computing infrastructure. He holds a PhD in Physics from TU Dresden (2001) and has extensive experience in research data infrastructure development, spanning roles from 1996 to present across physics and computational science domains.

Education:

• 2001: Dr. rer. nat., Physics, TU Dresden (Thesis on BABAR detector calibration)
• 1996: Diploma in Physics, TU Dresden
• 1992–1996: Studies in Physics at TU Dresden
• 1990–1992: Studies at TU Chemnitz

Research interests emphasize distributed data management, long-term archiving, and FAIR data principles. He contributes to initiatives like the Research Data Alliance (IG Co-Chair) and UNICORE Forum board. His publications address challenges in big data workflows, metadata standards, and interdisciplinary infrastructure integration.

Labs/Teams: Leads the Distributed and Data Intensive Computing team within TU Dresden's HPC center, collaborating on projects like MoSGrid and MASi repository systems.