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Malte Dreyer

Director

ICT Service

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malte.dreyer@eui.eu

[+39] 055 4685 663

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Villa Il Poggiolo, VP088

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Sarah Simonsen

Working languages

German, English

Malte Dreyer

Director

ICT Service

Biography

Malte Dreyer is the director of the ICT Service at the European University Institute, where he leads the Institute's ICT strategy and digital infrastructure. Before joining the EUI he was director of the Computer and Media Service (CMS) of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and earlier worked on research infrastructure and publishing platforms at the Max Planck Society. His work focuses on research data management, digital sovereignty, information security, and the use of AI in higher education.

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  • 2025–2026 DFG-Textploring / Platform for research data exploration in the humanities
  • 2024–2026 DFG-SFB 1404/2 Fonda / Foundations of Workflows for Large-Scale Scientific Data Analysis (subproject S1)
  • 2024–2026 DFG-SFB 1412/2 Register / Data management and statistical analysis (subproject INF)
  • 2024–2026 DFG-FDLink / Advancing research data practice
  • 2023–2026 BUA-Shared Services Catalogue / Development of a service catalogue and a shared service platform for the Berlin University Alliance
  • 2023–2026 DFG-Daidalos / Research infrastructure for digital research methods in Classical Philology
  • 2021–2025 BMBF-AI-Skills / Development of a data and application platform for the use of machine learning in university study
  • 2021–2025 BMBF-IMPACT / Use of AI methods to support teaching and learning in university study
  • 2021–2026 DFG-FAIRmat / FAIR Data Infrastructure for Condensed-Matter Physics
  • 2020–2023 DFG-FDNext / Advancing research data practice
  • 2020–2023 BUA-Shared Services / Development of a service management platform
  • 2020–2023 BUA-Concept Development for Collaborative Research Data Management Services
  • 2020–2023 BUA-FIP / Development of a research information platform using VIVO
  • 2020–2023 DFG-SFB 1412/1 Register / Data management and statistical analysis (subproject INF)
  • 2020–2022 EU-European Digital Student Service Infrastructure / Development of an NFC interface for the campus card
  • 2019–2021 EU-5Genesis / Trialling a 5G testbed
  • 2018–2020 EU-MyAcademicID / Implementation of a uniform EU student identifier
  • 2017–2020 DFG-Callidus / Vocabulary acquisition in Latin teaching through corpus-based methods
  • 2017–2019 BMBF-FDMentor / Recommendations and strategies for research data management at higher education institutions
  • 2016–2021 Berlin Senate-Practical Semester Portal for Berlin Teacher Training / Development of a portal for allocating placements to student teachers at Berlin schools
  • 2015–2025 Berlin Senate-Berlin Campus Card / Development of an integrated campus card solution for 150,000 students in Berlin
  • 2015–2018 DFG-eDiss+ / Inclusion of research data in the context of doctoral theses
  • 2014–2017 DFG-CLOCKSS / Participation of a German university in the CLOCKSS Network
  • 2013–2019 DFG-Laudatio / Management and reuse of historical text corpora
  • 2008–2012 DFG-Carpet / Platform for e-publishing tools
  • 2011–2012 EU-Nedimah / Digital methods in the humanities
  • 2011–2012 BMBF-Dariah Setup / European digital research infrastructure for the arts and humanities
  • 2010–2012 MPG-AWOB / Groupware / astrophysics
  • 2009–2012 DFG-Competence Centre for Interoperable Metadata (KIM) – Semantic Web and metadata standards
  • 2009–2012 MPG-Digital Libraries Connected / Infrastructure for managing digitised holdings
  • 2008–2012 MPG-Imeji / Repository and tools for media as research data
  • 2006–2012 MPG-Living Reviews / Publishing platform for review journals
  • 2008–2012 EU-PEER Publishing and the Ecology of European Research / Open access study
  • 2006–2012 MPG-PubMan / Publication data infrastructure
  • 2008–2011 EU-Dariah Preparatory / European digital research infrastructure for the arts and humanities
  • 2007–2011 NIMS-Ninja / National Institute for Materials Science, Japan / Integrated information management platform
  • 2008–2010 EU-Parse.Insight / Research data survey
  • 2006–2009 BMBF flagship project eSciDoc / Service-oriented architecture as research data infrastructure and applications
  • 2007–2008 Heinz Nixdorf Foundation Faces / Image data management / educational research
  • 2007–2008 BMBF-Textgrid / Virtual research environment / digital editions
  • 2008–2009 NIMS-Diamonds / National Institute for Materials Science, Japan / Image data management / materials science

  • Since 2023 Member of the interest group "Digital Infrastructures, Services and Data Tracking" of the Alliance priority initiative
  • Since 2023 Member of LBCIO, an association of US university CIOs
  • 2021–2026 Representative of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in the NFDI association
  • 2020–2025 Member of European University Foundation Coordinators
  • 2018–2026 Chair of the Strategy and Organisation working group of ZKI e.V.
  • Since 2017 Member of the HRK (German Rectors' Conference) commission "Digitalisation"
  • 2021–2024 Member of the European Open Science Cloud Technical Interoperability of Data and Services Task Force
  • 2021–2023 Member of the HRK working group "Digital Sovereignty"
  • 2022 Member of the BMBF selection panel "Reuse and Management of Research Data at Universities of Applied Sciences"
  • 2021 Member of the GWK selection panel "Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education"
  • 2021 Member of the review panel for a DFG Collaborative Research Centre
  • 2020 Member of the review panel for a DFG Collaborative Research Centre
  • 2017–2019 Member of the advisory group "Research Information Systems of HIS eG"
  • 2015–2019 Member of the board of EUNIS (European University Information Systems)
  • 2014–2016 Member of the technical advisory group of HIS eG
  • 2011–2013 Member of the board of DINI e.V.
  • 2011 Contributor to the Commission on the Future of Information Infrastructure (KII)
  • 2009–2012 Research Data working group of the priority initiative "Digital Information" of the Alliance of German Science Organisations (Alliance Initiative)
  • 2008–2011 Virtual Research Environments working group of the priority initiative "Digital Information" of the Alliance of German Science Organisations (Alliance Initiative)

  • Dreyer, M., Väterlein, P., Erfurth, I., Kilian, K., Vogl, R., Lehmann, D., Meisel, A., Erfurth, C., Scheler, I., & Prill, T. (2026). Auf dem Weg zu erfolgreichen IT-Kooperationen - Vier Thesen aus Sicht der dienstnutzenden Hochschulen. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20494261
  • Dreyer, M. (2026). Retrieval-Augmented Generation – Ein Erfahrungsbericht und Leitfaden zum Einsatz von wissensbasierten Chatbots an der HU Berlin (Teil 2). Information – Wissenschaft & Praxis. https://doi.org/10.1515/iwp-2026-3008
  • Dreyer, M. (2026). Retrieval-Augmented Generation – Ein Erfahrungsbericht und Leitfaden zum Einsatz von wissensbasierten Chatbots an der HU Berlin (Teil 1). Information – Wissenschaft & Praxis. https://doi.org/10.1515/iwp-2026-3007
  • Dreyer, M. (2026). Ergebnisse der ZKI Top-Trends-Umfrage 2026. Information – Wissenschaft & Praxis. https://doi.org/10.1515/iwp-2026-3004
  • Dreyer, Malte, Funken, Matthias, Hollmann, Susanne, Lejsek, Vera, Mohren, Henning, Scharfe, Christian, Schröder, Thomas, Spanke, Elke and de West, Daniel. "Handlungsfelder zum Personal- und Fachkräftemangel für IT-Einrichtungen". Praxishandbuch Personalgewinnung in Bibliotheken: Arbeitskräfte finden, gewinnen und halten, edited by Nora Neuhaus de Laurel, Ute Engelkenmeier, Sophia Manns-Süßbrich, Frauke Schade, Antje Theise and Lucia Werder, De Gruyter Saur, 2026, pp. 249-262. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111662985-017
  • Dreyer, M. (2025). Zentrale Schritte zur Vorbereitung auf mögliche Cyber-Angriffe. Ein Überblick. In M. Stein, M. Lübcke, H. Gilch, E. Wolfangel, R. Rehme, J. von Helden, … J. K. Köcher (Eds.), Krisenmanagement nach Cyber-Angriffen an Hochschulen – Tagungsband 2024 (pp. 44–51). HIS-HE. https://his-he.de/publikationen/krisenmanagement-nach-cyber-angriffen-an-hochschulen-tagungsband-2024/
  • Dreyer, M. (2025, August 27). Künstliche Intelligenz in der Hochschullandschaft: Balance zwischen Innovation und Selbstbestimmung. Hochschulforum Digitalisierung. https://hochschulforumdigitalisierung.de/ki-hochschule/
  • Dreyer, Malte. "IT Top-Trends an Hochschulen 2025 – Digitalisierung und KI" Information – Wissenschaft & Praxis, vol. 76, no. 4, 2025, pp. 183-190. https://doi.org/10.1515/iwp-2025-2021
  • Dreyer, M. (2025). Digital Sovereignty – Results from the ZKI Survey in DACH. In R. Vogl, L. Desnos, J.-F. Desnos, S. Bolis, L. Merakos, G. Ferrell, … M. Roumeliotis (Eds.), Proceedings of EUNIS 2024 annual congress in Athens (pp. 180–187). doi:10.29007/zmwf
  • Dreyer, M. (2025). Förderung der BigBlueButton-Community – Bericht 2024. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15013592
  • Dreyer, M., Kuhnau, P., Brandtner, A., Christof, J., Kostädt, P., Börner, C., Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, European University Viadrina, Freie Universität Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, University of Potsdam, & Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU). (2024). Projekt FD-Link: Rahmenbedingungen für Kulturwandel und gemeinsame Servicelandschaft stärken. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14288783
  • Beyer, A., Dreyer, M., & Lüdeling, A. (2024, June 30). Daidalos: NER for Literary Studies on Latin and Ancient Greek Texts. International Workshop Nomina Omina. Detecting and Preserving Ancient Greek and Latin Proper Names in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (NominaOmina), Leipzig. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12599847
  • Augsten, M. T., Bierwirth, M., Börner, C., Dreyer, M., Helbig, K., Jacob, B., Jäckel, D., Kienbaum, J., Kuhnau, P., Lehmann, A., Paßmann, S., Söring, S., Steinke, B., Straka, J., & Vehmeier, B. (2024). Weiterentwicklung der Forschungsdatenpraxis: Werkzeuge zur Qualitätsentwicklung für Serviceeinrichtungen in Kooperation mit Fachbereichen und Forschungsverbünden. O-Bib. Das Offene Bibliotheksjournal Herausgeber VDB, 11(2), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.5282/o-bib/6037
  • Dreyer, M., Funken, M., Hollmann, S., Lejsek, V., Mohren, H., Scharfe, C., Schröder, T., Spanke, E., & de West, D. (2024). Handreichung des ZKI AKSO zum Thema Personal- und Fachkräftemangel. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10521728
  • Dreyer, M., Kühnlenz, F., & Brandel, B. (2023). Handreichung zur Vorbereitung auf Informationssicherheitsvorfälle. ZKI e.V. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10122533
  • Lehmann, Anna; Dreyer, Malte; Odebrecht, Carolin; Helbig, Kerstin (2023) UpdateFDM – Evaluierung von Forschungsdatenservices und -infrastrukturen. b.i.t. pp. 332-341. https://www.b-i-t-online.de/heft/2023-04-fachbeitrag-lehmann.pdf
  • Dreyer, Malte (2023). Results of the ZKI Top Trends Survey of the ZKI Strategy and Organisation Working Group for 2023. In Proceedings of European University Information Systems Congress 2023. https://easychair.org/publications/paper/9wWw
  • Dreyer, Malte. (2023). Förderung der BigBlueButton-Community – Bericht 2023. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7624015
  • Lüdeling, A., Alexiadou, A., Adli, A., Donhauser, K., Dreyer, M., Egg, M., ... & Zeige, L. E. (2022). Register: Language users' knowledge of situational-functional variation. https://doi.org/10.18452/24901
  • Alshawaf, F., Adam, C., Guescini, R., Kotschka, F., & Dreyer, M. (2022). Chances and challenges of creating a research information platform for the Berlin University Alliance. http://hdl.handle.net/11366/1968
  • Althage, Melanie, Dreyer, Malte, Guescini, Rolf, Hiltmann, Torsten, Lüdeling, Anke, & Odebrecht, Carolin. (2022). Referenzierung des digitalen kulturellen (Text-)Erbes - Digitale Quellenkritik und Modellierung von Metadaten. DHd 2022 Kulturen des digitalen Gedächtnisses. 8th conference of the association "Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum" (DHd 2022), Potsdam. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6322547
  • Lehmann, Anna, Dreyer, Malte, & Odebrecht, Carolin. (2022). Befragungsergebnisse der dienstleistenden Einrichtungen zum institutionellen FDM (Version 1) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7009632
  • Alshawaf, Fadwa, Adam, Claudia, Guescini, Rolf, Kotschka, Florian, Dreyer, Malte (2022). A VIVO-based Research Information Platform for the Berlin University Alliance, European Journal of Higher Education IT (2022). https://www.eunis.org/download/2022/EUNIS_2022_paper_10.pdf
  • Dreyer, Malte. (2022). Förderung der BigBlueButton-Community. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5905309
  • Dreyer, M., & Bierwirth, M. (2021). The Impact of the Pandemic on German Academic IT Facilities in 2020 and beyond. Results of the Annual ZKI Survey on Trends at Academic IT Centres. EPiC Series in Computing, 78, 159–170. https://doi.org/10.29007/hxkb
  • Dreyer, Malte et al. "IT für die digitale Lehre - Ein Praxisbericht" Hochschule auf Abstand - Ein multiperspektivischer Zugang zur digitalen Lehre, edited by Iris Neiske, Judith Osthushenrich, Niclas Schaper, Ulrike Trier, Nerea Vöing (Eds.) 2021 pp. 313-325. Hochschulbildung: Lehre und Forschung https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839456903
  • Dreyer, Malte. (2021). Ergebnisse der Umfrage des ZKI-Arbeitskreises Strategie und Organisation zu Softwarelösungen an den Hochschulen 2021 (Version 1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4817795
  • Dreyer, M. (2020). Results of the 2020 ZKI IT Top Trends Survey in Germany. European Journal of Higher Education IT 2020. https://www.eunis.org/download/2020/EUNIS_2020_paper_81.pdf
  • Dreyer, Malte (Ed.). (2020). CMS-Jahresbroschüre 2019/20 | Aktuelles aus dem Computer- und Medienservice [CMS annual brochure]. https://blogs.hu-berlin.de/cms/category/cms-jahresbroschuere-2019-20
  • Dreyer, Malte. (2020). Umfrage zu den Angeboten für Digitale Lehre an Hochschulen im Juni 2020 durch den ZKI-Arbeitskreis Strategie & Organisation und die AMH (Version 2). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3925120
  • Schulz, K., Beyer, A., Dreyer, M., & Kipf, S. (2020). A data-driven platform for creating educational content in language learning. In Qurator.
  • Dreyer, Malte (Ed.), (2020). Cms-extra_digitale_hu.pdf. CMS special issue, June 2020. https://www.cms.hu-berlin.de/de/bilder/cms-extra_digitale_hu.pdf
  • Dreyer, Malte, and Andreas Vollmer. "An Integral Approach to Support Research Data Management at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.", European Journal of Higher Education IT 2016, Volume 22, p. 320.
  • Malte Dreyer, Jens Döbler, Daniel Rohde. Building Service Platforms using OpenStack and CEPH: A University Cloud at Humboldt University. Eunis 2015, vol. 11, pp. 63-68.
  • Dreyer, M., Bulatovic, N., Tschida, U., & Razum, M. (2007). eSciDoc – a Scholarly Information and Communication Platform for the Max Planck Society. In German e-Science Conference.
  • Bulatovic, Natasa; Dreyer, Malte "IMEJI-towards collaborative metadata enrichment." Open Repositories 2011. 2011.
  • Bulatovic, N., Dreyer, M., Kleinfercher, F., Schlender, M., Asshauer, K., Busse, J., et al. (2012). Digitale Bildarchive für Kultur und Wissenschaft. In Kultur und Informatik - Aus der Vergangenheit in die Zukunft. Jürgen Sieck; Regina Franken-Wendelstorf.
  • M Dreyer, U Tschida - Wissenschaftliches Publizieren im digitalen Zeitalter, 2009.
  • Malte Dreyer, Heike Neuroth, Sarah Carrier, Jane Greenberg, Stephen Abrams, Patricia Cruse, John Kunze. Curation of Scientific Datasets: Trends, Current Initiatives and Solutions. Proceedings of DigCCurr2009 Digital Curation: Practice, Promise and Prospects, p. 68.