Programme Structure

The research projects of the programme are supported by organisational and infrastructure measures: CONNECT, the coordination and management project, and Research Infrastructure & Innovation Lab (ENTAILab), the core infrastructural service and research center.

The Programme Speaker and the Programme Committee, with the Managing Director, lead and coordinate ENTAILab and are responsible for organising the joint activities of the New Data Spaces programme. 

An Extended Steering Group, formed of the Principal Investigators of the New Data Spaces research projects guides future directions of the project. 

The Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), consisting of renowned international researchers, evaluates and advises. The board has a diverse composition of organisational affiliations and disciplines, offering a range of expertise.

Scientific Advisory Board Members

Prof. Dr. Lisa Calderwood
Professor of Survey Research and Managing Director at the University College London Centre for Longitudinal Studies
Prof. Dr. Pamela Davis-Kean
Professor of Psychology and Director, Survey Research Center, at University of Michigan Institute for Social Research
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Heyer
Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities

and Professor Emeritus of Natural Language Processing (Computer Science Department) at Leipzig University

Profile on Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities website

Prof. Dr. Georg Lutz
Director at Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences (FORS)
Prof. Dr. Barry Schouten
Senior Methodologist at Statistics Netherlands
Prof. Dr. Markus Strohmaier
Chair of Data Science in the Economic and Social Sciences at Universität Mannheim