Prof. Dr. Marc Rittberger

Personal Information and Work Experience

• Director of DIPF (since 2008)
  
• Professor of Information Management at DIPF and the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt (since 2005)
  
• Professur Filière Information documentaire, Haute Ecole de Gestion, Genève (2002-2005)
  
• Chair of Information Science as a stand-in professor, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf (2001-2002)
  
• Manager Steinbeis Transfer Center IMIE (2000-2002)
  
• Assistant professorship, Chair of Information Science, Constance University (1995-2001)
  
• PhD thesis on the topic of „Online database selection. A search interface for the online retrieval service integrated into the Constance hypertext system” (1995)
  
• Research assistant, Chair of Information Science, University of Konstanz (1989-1994)
  
• Postgraduate studies of Information Science, University of Konstanz, major subject: Information Retrieval
  
• Studies of Physics, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), major subject: Theoretical Nuclear Physics
  
• Year of Birth: 1962
  

Current/Key activities and fields of research

• Applied research in the areas of Information Retrieval and Information Quality
  
• Research & development projects of the Information Center for Education
  

Positions in committees

• Member of the Governing Board of the University Association for Information Science
• Member of the scientific advisory board of the German National Library of Economics (ZBW), Kiel 
• Member of the scientific advisory board of the GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Mannheim
  
• Member of the strategic board eHumanities at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
  
• Member of the scientific advisory board of b2i
  
• Member of the scientific advisory board of OstDok