Sören Lorenz
Head of Ocean Research Technology Centre (ORTC)
Chief Information Officer (CIO)
Office
Room: 5-5.112
Phone: +49 431 600 2270
Email: slorenz(at)geomar.de
Address
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Wischhofstr. 1-3
24148 Kiel
Germany
Interests
Digital marine research infrastrucutres
Digital transformation in research, management and administration
IT strategy and IT management
Digital Science @GEOMAR
Joint Projects & Initiatives
DataHub Earth and Environment
- MareHub
- Cross-institutional data infrastructres
- Cross-institutional data services
DAM Pilot Underway Data
- Alignment of data flows
- Optimization of vessels-to-land connection of research data
Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration (HMC)
- HMC MetadataHub Earth and Environment
- HMC Office
NFDI4Earth (Participant)
- Measure 2.2 User Support Network
- Measure 3.2 Common Standards for FAIR ESS data
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Base4NFDI4 (Co-Applicant, Co-Speaker)
- TA2 Service integration and ramping-up for operation (co-lead)
- Measure 2.1 Procedural framework for service integration and operation (lead)
- Measure 2.2 Service portfolio management and tool pool (lead)
- Measure 2.4 Service integration and ramping-up for service operation (flex-funds)
Boards & Committees
National
since 2021 | NFDI4Earth, Co-Spokesperson (since 2026), Steering Board Member
since 2022 | Base4NFDI, Co-Spokesperson
since 2024 | Allianz Initiative “Digitalität in der Wissenschaft”, Speaker IG2 “Digitale Werkzeuge und ihre Entwicklung, inklusive Ki und ML”
since 2024 | Reviewer DFG LIS
since 2026 | RDA Germany e.V., Board Member
since 2024 | DINI e.V., Board Member (Co-Chair)
2021 - 2026 | Data Management Working Group - Deutsche Allianz für Meeresforschung (DAM), Co-Chair
2016 - 2026 | Hochschul-CIO e.V., Board Member
Helmholtz Association
since 2019 | HMC - Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration Platform, Spokesperson
since 2018 | Helmholtz Inkubator Information and Data Science, Member
2018 - 2026 | Data Hub Earth and Environment DataHub, Speaker (2024-2026) and Steering Board
2019 - 2025 | WG Digitalization Earth and Environment, Spokesperson
2018 - 2024 | KODA (Committee for data and computation), Member
2020 - 2021 | Task Force Digitalisation, Member
2021 - 2022 | Task Force Research Data Management, Member
International
since 2024 | EOSC Task Force “Semantical and technical interoperability”, Member
Career
since 2024 | Head of Ocean Reserach Technology Center (ORTC)
since 2017 | Chief Information Officer (CIO) at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research at Kiel and Head of the Information, Data and Computing Centre (IDCC)
2012-2017 | Managing Director Director at the Service Centre for Research, IT and strategic Innovation and Head of the Data Centre, Kiel University
2009-2012 | Head of IT Management, University of Kiel
2007-2009 | E-Learning Coordinator for the Cluster of Excellence “The Future Ocean”, University of Kiel.
1997-2007 | Research Staff and project coordinator, Department of Neurobiology, Bielefeld University. Educational Simulation for Neural and Cognitive Science; peer-to-peer system for open neural simulations, open access publication of simulations.
1990-1996 | Study of Computer Science and Biology, Diploma in Computer Science (Dipl. Inform.), Focus on Biological Cybernetics and Neural Networks, Bielefeld University
