OSCARS will help strengthening the Open Science approach in research and consolidating the outcomes of the Science Cluster projects. Particularly the community competence centers will play a leading role in the further development of the research communities towards Open Science based on FAIR data.
With more than 30 years of experience in the measurement of aerosol particles and particularly in airborne measurement of climate-relevant aerosol optical properties across the troposphere in various environments, atmospheric research is my scientific home. Today, I am heading the Research Group for Global Observation at the Institute of Energy and Climate Research – Troposphere (IEK-8) of Forschungszentrum Jülich. I am also Professor at the University of Wuppertal, Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Research, and serve as a member of the Scientific Advisory Group Aerosols of the Global Atmosphere Watch programme of WMO.
One of my primary tasks is the coordination of the European Research Infrastructure IAGOS, jointly with colleagues from France and the U.K. As a convinced supporter of the concept of research infrastructures and of the Open Science paradigm, I am contributing to the Community of the European Environmental Research Infrastructures ENVRI, coordinated the EU Project ENVRI-FAIR (www.envri-fair.eu) which connects the cluster of ENVRIs to the European Open Science Cloud, and represent the ENVRI community in the EU Horizon Europe science cluster project O.S.C.A.R.S. (Open Science Clusters’ Action for Research and Society).