Researcher profile

Dr Matthias Lange

As computer scientist with an PhD in data engineering, I work as senior scientist in the field of bioinformatics and data engineering in life sciences. I leading the of the team scientific research data management at Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) Gatersleben that operates central services, like Laboratory Information Management Systems, database services, Web application development stacks, data mangement planing tools and data publication pipelines. My expertise and research focus is on information retrieval, database systems, digital twins and research management for heterogeneous -omics data. My special focus is on standards and infrastructures for data sharing, artificial intelligence, big data infrastructures and environmant sensorics systems. I co-working in international standartisation initiatives for plant phenotyping and genotyping data within German, European and international research data infrastructure programs, like ELIXIR, RDA, EOSC, de.NBI and NFDI. My primary research topics are dedicated to database infrastructures, information retrieval, research software development and Web technology, and research data life cycle systems for plant research data. A special focus is towards FAIR digital objects, process engineering and visualisation of genotyping and phenotyping data of genebanks and its exploration. Furthermore I'm responsible to operate the IPK's ORACLE enterprise database backend infrastructure stack.