Esther Schneidenbach
Müggelseedamm 310, 12587 Berlin
Profile
Research Data Management and Open Science: development of practical guidance, workflows and support services for FAIR and reusable research data.
- Support with planning data handling and developing data management plans.
- Guidance on publishing research data in the institutional repository FRED and in external repositories.
- Advice on FAIR metadata, data documentation and standards to support research data discovery and reuse.
- Advice on licensing, data citation and good research practice.
- Development of templates, guidelines, training materials and consultancy services.
- Advice on sensitive data, access conditions and sustainable data sharing.
- Facilitation of communication and networking between researchers, institutional support services such as IT, the library, the Data Protection Advisor and the Animal Welfare Officer, data infrastructures, and external initiatives such as NFDI.
Further Positions:
- CTP "Data Management" Coordinator (IGB)
- Section-Speaker (E) Leibniz Working Group (WG) Research Data
Since 2026
Research Data Management Advisor, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin
2022–2025
Research Data Management Officer, HTW Berlin – University of Applied Sciences
Project staff member in FitForFDM: development of institutional research data management services, guidance materials, training formats and support structures for FAIR research data
2019–2022
EcoDM – Ecosystem Data Management, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut / project consortium
Project area coordination and research data management support in the Public Sector strand, with a focus on FAIRification, data sharing and cross-sector data management practices
2018–2019
DARIAH-DE / forschungslizenzen.de
Development and coordination of information and guidance on licensing, copyright and reuse of research data in the humanities and cultural heritage sector
2015–2017
IANUS – Research Data Centre for Archaeology and Ancient Studies, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut
Public relations and project management for a disciplinary research data centre, with a focus on research data management, digital long-term archiving and community-oriented support structures
Research stays and field work
2016 (Aug-Oct)
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA, Research stay
2015 (April-Aug)
University of Oxford / Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford, Visiting PhD Student
Research stay funded by a DAAD doctoral scholarship
2013–2016
Research stays in Berkeley, Oxford, London, Rome, including research at the Ashmolean Museum, the British Museum, the Vatican Museums, the Museo Nazionale Romano.
2004–2010
Active participant in severals archaeological excavations and survey expeditions in Germany, Italy and Turkey (annually).
Education
2012–2015
Doctoral research / doctoral scholarship, Graduate School “Forms of Prestige in Ancient Cultures”, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich
Research on Jewish communities and titles of office in ancient Rome
2011
Magister Artium, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen
Major: Ancient History; minors: Classical Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology