Position

Full Professorship “Open Science” (W2) in the Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Humboldt‑Universität zu Berlin. Start date: 1 October 2026.

Responsibilities

Applicants are expected to have expertise in information infrastructures for open science and in the following areas:

• Research data management
• Open access and digital scholarly communication
• Digital services for information and knowledge production
• Research information management
• Science policy and open science
• Research libraries in the context of changing information and knowledge practices

Research activities should cover both theory development and applied topics in library and information science. Particular focus is placed on the digital transformation of scholarly information infrastructures, standards, policies, reforms and practices for open science, their im...