GESIS appoints a new director for its Data Archive for the
Social Sciences
Dr. Alexia Katsanidou took over the position of director of the Data Archive for the
Social Sciences at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences on 1 April 2015.
In her new position, Alexia will continue to represent GESIS at CESSDA governing
and advisory bodies.
Dr. Alexia Katsanidou now leads the department “Data Archive for the Social
Sciences” the central data infrastructure in Germany with primary focus in
providing excellent data service for national and international comparative surveys
from the fields of social and political science research. With 60 members of staff
divided into seven teams the department curates international surveys, which
must comply with clearly defined methodological and technical requirements,
archives national and international data and disseminates them in a user-friendly
manner.
She is a political scientist with experience in quantitative science and data. She
coordinates the work of CESSDA Training and also teaches Data Management and
Anonymisation issues. Her research interests vary from political science (European
politics, elections and parties) to data science (data collection, incentives for data
sharing, data management). Additionally she is an expert in European Data
Infrastructures and leads projects on data harmonisation and data management
portals. Alexia founded CESSDA Training in 2011.
The new contact for CESSDA Training is Sebastian Netscher
([email protected]) who has taken over the position of Head of
International Data Infrastructures at GESIS.
Read the GESIS press release.
Read more about Dr. Alexia Katsinadou here.