Volker Beckmann
Volker finished his PhD in astrophysics at Hamburg University in 2001, and then worked in astrophysics and space science in Switzerland, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre, he taught at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and became a researcher at CNRS in France in 2009. From 2016 to 2020 he was scientific director for Computing and Data Science at the French national institute for particle, astroparticle, and nuclear physics (CNRS-IN2P3).
Since September 2020 Volker has been responsible for the implementation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) in France at the Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR), and since February 2022 he is co-chair of the EOSC Steering Board.
