Lead of TA 3 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Felix Bach is Vice President e-Research at FIZ Karlsruhe, where he oversees activities spanning research data management and digital humanities. His work focuses on the digital transformation of research processes, the development of sustainable research data infrastructures, and the application of artificial intelligence in research and information systems. A particular emphasis is on integrating research data, software and services into interoperable, increasingly automated research environments.
As Co-Spokesperson of NFDI4Chem and Lead of Task Area 3, Felix Bach coordinates the development and federation of chemistry-specific research data repositories. The aim is to establish a federated infrastructure that makes research data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) throughout their lifecycle. This includes integrating specialised repositories, developing common interfaces and metadata standards, and connecting services to national and European research data infrastructures such as NFDI and EOSC.
At FIZ Karlsruhe, he is responsible for the continued development of the RADAR research data platform and its discipline-specific services, including RADAR4Chem and RADAR4Memory. He is also involved in NFDI4Memory, the development of sustainable research software, and the Leibniz ScienceCampus DiTraRe, which explores the digital transformation of research workflows. A current focus of his work is combining FAIR data, knowledge graphs and AI-driven approaches to make research data increasingly machine-actionable as well as accessible to human researchers.
Beyond NFDI4Chem, Felix Bach contributes to cross-consortium collaboration within the NFDI, particularly in establishing shared structures and services for research data repositories. His vision is an open, trustworthy and sustainable research data ecosystem in which scientific information can be connected across disciplines and effectively reused.
