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”
• IWWB-PLUS: InfoWebWeiterbildung – Personalised search area for the learning environment
• Information centre OER – Information, transfer and networking for Open Educational Resources
• KonsortSWD – Consortium for the Social, Behavioural, Educational, and Economic Sciences
• QualiBi – Development of a research data platform for qualitative educational research
• Research synthesis on the genesis of social inequalities in educational attainment

Personal Information and Work Experience

2012 – 2019

Deputy Executive Director of DIPF

2008 – 2012

Executive Director of DIPF

2006 – 2008

Deputy Executive Director of DIPF

Seit 2005

Director of the Information Center for Education at DIPF

Seit 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  (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)

Networks

• ORCID