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Dr. Stefan Thiemann is a faculty-level researcher at the University of Hamburg, serving since 2017 as head of the Center for Sustainable Research Data Management and since 2016 as the university’s Open-Access officer. He represents Hamburg in the National Research-Data Infrastructure (NFDI) and is a principal investigator in the Cluster of Excellence "Understanding Written Artefacts" (Research Field F: Data Linking).
Education:
- Diplom in Meteorology & Computer Science, University of Hamburg (1990)
- Dr. rer. nat. in Geosciences, University of Hamburg (1996, dissertation on Arctic boundary-layer convection)
Research interests:
Thiemann’s work sits at the intersection of digital infrastructure and the humanities. He designs sustainable research-data repositories, federated information systems and on-demand transformer models that allow scholars to re-use humanities data at scale. Current themes include FAIR data implementation, AI-assisted transcription & annotation of manuscripts, and open-science policy development.
His recent articles (2023-2025) cluster around two trajectories: building reusable, AI-ready data infrastructures (federated repositories, sustainable viewers, chatbots fine-tuned for humanities queries) and fostering humanities-centred AI workflows (automatic linking of manuscript metadata, large-scale text mining, and user-friendly annotation tools such as the TAMAR platform).
Service & awards:
- Member, University of Hamburg Research Infrastructure Council (2020-)
- Member, Steering Group on Digitalisation in Research (2020-)
- Open-Access Officer, University of Hamburg (2016-)
- Former Faculty Information Officer, Faculty of Humanities (2012-2017)
Teaching & grants:
He regularly teaches Bachelor seminars on digital research-data management and Internet competence. He leads or co-leads major third-party projects including the DFG-funded SFB 950 “Manuscript Cultures”, the Hamburg Open Science initiative, and infrastructure grants that established the university’s research-data repository and DOI services.
Labs & teams:
Thiemann heads the Center for Sustainable Research Data Management and is a core member of the Data Linking Research Unit within the UWA Cluster of Excellence. He coordinates interdisciplinary teams developing the UHH research-data repository, FUNDus! collection portal, and manuscript-culture databases hosted at the CSMC.
