Daniel Nüst, PhD

Visiting Address:
Hülssebau, Raum O 163 Helmholtzstraße 10
01069 Dresden
Deutschland
Daniel is a postdoctoral researcher and research software engineer. He develops methods and tools for open and reproducible geoscientific research and is a proponent for open scholarship and reproducibility.
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0024-5046
Mastodon mstdn.social/@nuest
Find a complete list of online profiles and platform accounts at https://nordholmen.net/.
Projects
- KOMET - geospatial metadata for research publications
- NFDI4Earth - cultural change towards FAIRness and Openness in RDM
- CODECHECK - Independent execution of computations underlying research articles
- CHECK-PUB - Code checking for OJS journals and in Open Research Information
Research interests
- Reproducible research
- Replicable research
- Geospatial data science
- Open Research Information
- GeoMetaScience and Meta-GIScience
- Geospatial metadata in scholarly communication and research infrastructures
- Geospatial research software engineering
- Open X
CV & education
- 2022-08 to 2026-09 Postdoctoral researcher NFDI4Earth
- 2022-04 PhD, "Infrastructures and Practices for Reproducible Research in Geography, Geosciences, and GIScience", https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4768096
- 2016-01 to 2022-12 Researcher in projects o2r and OPTIMETA at the Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Münster
- 2011-10 to 2015-12-31 Consultant and software developer at 52°North Spatial Information Research GmbH (projects GeoViQua (FP7), GLUES (BMBF), ConnectinGEO (H2020))
- 2011-02 to 2011-09 Student assistant at 52°North Spatial Information Research GmbH (project GENESIS (FP7))
- 2009-11 to 2011-01 Student assistant and lab tutor at Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Münster (project OSIRIS (FP6), digital cartography)
- 2004-10 to 2011-11 Diploma geoinformatics, Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Münster
Membership & service
- American Geophysical Union (AGU) Data Management Advisory Board (2024-2025)
- Knowledge Exchange Open Science Expert Group (German delegate, nomintated by DFG) (since 2022-02)
- NFDI4Culture expert forum on sustainable software development (member, since 2021-04)
- Knowledge Exchange Task and Finish Group "Publishing Reproducible Research Output" (member, 2020-2021)
- de-RSE e.V. - Society for Research Software (vice chair of the association board, since 2018-11 - 2023-10)
- Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE) conference Reproducibility Committee Chair (2020-2022, 2024)
- Forum Citizen Science 2019, Münster, Scientific Programme Committee (co-chair)
Daniel reviewed articles for the journals Computers & Geosciences, Data Science, GigaScience, International Journal of Digital Earth, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Journal of Geographical Systems, Journal of Open Source Software, Semantic Web, Sustainability, and The R Journal.
Teaching
- Geosoftware II courses at ifgi (http://geosoft2.github.io)
- Lecturer at GEOSTAT courses (http://geostat-course.org/about), 2011 ( Spatial data in R and development of R with Eclipse) and 2017 (RMarkdown and knitr for reproducible research)
Publications
2022
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Reproducibility for Urban Mobility Analysis , 15 Nov 2022, Urban Mobility Analytics (Dagstuhl Seminar 22162). 4 ed., Vol. 12. p. 26-53Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Chapter in book/Anthology/Report
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Supporting cultural change and new tools for RDM in Earth System Sciences , 9 Nov 2022Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Other contribution > Other
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Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty , 1 Nov 2022, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 119, 44, e2203150119Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
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OPTIMETA - strengthening the Open Access publishing system through open citations and spatiotemporal metadata , 28 Oct 2022Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Other contribution > Other
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AGILE Reproducible Paper Guidelines , 30 Aug 2022Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Other contribution > Other
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codecheckers/register: CODECHECK Register Deposit August 2022 , 25 Aug 2022Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Other contribution > Other
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Practical Reproducibility in Geography and Geosciences , 28 Mar 2022, In: Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 111, 5, p. 1300-1310, 11 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
2021
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The role of metadata in reproducible computational research , 10 Sep 2021, In: Patterns. 2, 9, 100322Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Review article
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Reproducible Research and GIScience: An Evaluation Using GIScience Conference Papers , 1 Sep 2021, 11th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2021) - Part II. Janowicz, K. & Verstegen, J. A. (eds.). Schloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing, p. 2:1-2:16, 16 p., 2Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
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OPTIMETA - Strengthening the Open Access publishing system through open citations and spatiotemporal metadata , 14 Apr 2021, In: Research ideas and outcomes : RIO. 7, e66264Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article