Volker Beckmann
- EOSC Steering Board co-chair
Affiliation:
European Open Science Cloud Steering Board
Biography:
Since September 2020 Volker Beckmann is responsible for the implementation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) in France at the Ministry of Higher Education and Research. Since February 2022 he is the co-chair of the EOSC Steering Board and since 2023 chair of the ESFRI-EOSC Task Force. He also serves on the HORIZON-INFRA programme committee.
He finished his PhD in astrophysics at Hamburg University in 2001, and then worked in astrophysics and space science in Switzerland and at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and taught at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. In 2009 he became researcher at CNRS in France and from 2016 to 2020 he was scientific director for Computing and Data Science at the national institute for particle, astroparticle, and nuclear physics (CNRS-IN2P3). He was work package leader in the EOSCpilot and in the EOSC-Pillar project before joining the ministry.