Prof. Dr. Marc Rittberger

Projects

• CEDIFOR – Centre for Digital Research in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Educational Science – CEDIFOR
• Digi-EBF – Meta project “Digitizing in education“
• Domain Data Protocols for empirical educational research
• EduArc – Digital educational architectures – Open learning (educational) resources in disseminated learninginfrastructures
• FID – Specialised Information Service “Educational Science and Educational Research”
• Information centre OER – Information, transfer and networking for Open Educational Resources
• Research synthesis on the genesis of social inequalities in educational attainment

Personal Information and Work Experience

Since 2012	Deputy Executive Director of DIPF
2008 - 2012	Executive Director of DIPF
2006 - 2008	Deputy Executive Director of DIPF
Since 2005	Director of the Information Center for Education at DIPF
Since 2005	Professor of Information Management at DIPF and the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt
2002 - 2005	Professur Filière Information documentaire, Haute Ecole de Gestion, Genève
2001 - 2002	Chair of Information Science as a stand-in professor, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
2000 - 2002	Manager Steinbeis Transfer Center IMIE
1995 - 2001	Assistant Professorship, Chair of Information Science, Constance University
1995	PhD thesis on the topic of „Online database selection. A search interface for the online retrieval service integrated into the Constance hypertext system”
1989 - 1995	Research Assistant, Chair of Information Science, University of Konstanz
1988 - 1989	Postgraduate studies of Information Science, University of Konstanz, major subject: Information Retrieval
1981 - 1988	Studies of Physics, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), major subject: Theoretical Nuclear Physics
1962	Year of Birth

Research Interests

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

Positions in Committees

• Deputy Speaker of the Leibniz Research Alliance Science 2.0 (since 2015)
• Member of the Fachbeirat Informationswissenschaft SII (Schweizerisches Institut für Informationswissenschaft), HTW Chur (since 2015)
• Member of the Governing Board of the University Association for Information Science (2005–2009)
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Mannheim (since 2010)
• Member of the Strategic Board eHumanities at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
• Member of the Research Advisory Board of SWP (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik / German Institute for International and Security Affairs) (2013–2017)
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (2008–2015)
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board at Know Center, Graz (2005–2012)
• Member of the Executive Board of the Leibniz Associaton (2006–2010
• Member of the Conseil d'administration de L'Institut national de recherche pédagogique (INRP) (2008–2010)

Publications

Publications since 2004 (DIPF database of publications)