#SRDD2020 Speaker

Full name

Harald von Waldow PhD

Affiliation

Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

Session(s)

(Meta)Data Quality & Logistics: the FAIR Data Publication Workflow at Eawag and WSL

Biography

Harald von Waldow is responsible for Research Data Management and Scientific IT Services at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Eawag. Current activities include consulting services and technical trainings for scientists, software engineering and system administration. He is motivated by the idea to harness proven concepts and latest technologies in IT for better research data management and efficient Open Science practices. Previously, Harald worked as a Senior Researcher at the Center for Climate Systems Modeling (C2SM) at ETH Zurich, as System Administrator for the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR) and as Postdoc at the Climate Impact Research Group at the University of Bern. His research in Environmental Science is mostly related to the mathematical modeling and the simulation of environmental transport processes. He holds a Master in Environmental Studies from the University of Waterloo, a PhD from ETH Zurich and the Diploma of Advanced Studies in Applied Statistics from ETH Zurich.