Chris Schubert
Chris Schubert
is the leader of the Climate Change Centre Austria (CCCA) data centre, and established this new institute for the exchange of climate-related information at the beginning of 2015. Aside from just hardware and software, his work focuses on interoperability, the consequential use of standards, detailed data management and data policies, as well as long term archiving of research data.
He studied geology in Jena and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich with a focus on modelling geoscientific processes. After earning an additional degree in IT, he began his career in 2004 in the field of web services technologies working for a software firm in Potsdam, focusing primarily on semantic interoperability and the Semantic Web.
After changing over to the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources Berlin/Hannover (BGR) with the task of creating and implementing standards for interoperable exchange of geoscientific data, in early 2012, he went to the European Commission´s Joint Research Centre in Italy. There he worked on conceptual modelling, data specification and implementation requirements for Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE), an EU directive for interoperable data exchange. His expertise has gained him continued work as an expert for the commission and in activities for the standardization of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).