Daniel Nüst, PhD
© Daniel Nüst
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)
Theses
- Yen-Yi Wu - Exploring Geospatial Data in Generalist Repositories: Insights into Their Technical and Spatial Attributes, B.Sc Geographie, 12/2024
- Lars Drechsler - Analyse vieler Datensätze aus allgemeinen Repositorien auf ihre regionalen Eigenschaften, Studiengang: B.Sc. Geodäsie und Geoinformation, 07/2025
Publications
2025
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Developing Central Support Services for the German National Research Data Infrastructure in Earth System Sciences through a Community-Driven Effort, 18 Mar 2025Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to conferences > Poster
2024
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NFDI4Earth Software Architecture Documentation, 20 Dec 2024Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Preprint/documentation/report > Manual/Technical documentation
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Cooperation strategy with existing GI Open-Source Software Frameworks and Platforms (NFDI4Earth Deliverable D4.3.3), 20 Sep 2024, NFDI4Earth Community on Zenodo, p. 1-12, 12 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Preprint/documentation/report > Project report (Final and progress reports)
2023
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NFDI4Earth: Improving Research Data Management in the Earth System Sciences, 7 Sep 2023, In: Proceedings of the Conference on Research Data Infrastructure . 1, 4 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Conference article
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NFDI4Earth Software Architecture, 1 Sep 2023, ZenodoElectronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Other contribution > Other
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White Paper: Umgang mit Zielen der BLV als Grundlage für die Strukturevaluation, 1 Jul 2023, ZenodoElectronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Other contribution > Other
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Challenges in Developing a Software Architecture for a National Research Data Infrastructure in Earth System Sciences, 1 Apr 2023, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-17491Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Other contribution > Other
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Initiating Cultural Change in the German Earth System Sciences Community with a Commitment Statement, 1 Apr 2023Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to conferences > Abstract
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Enriching the scholarly metadata commons with citation metadata and spatio-temporal metadata to support responsible research assessment and research discovery., Jan 2023, Vol. abs/2301.01502. 26 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Preprint/documentation/report > Preprint
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Because Data Shall Grow (and we With it): Steps Towards a Cultural Change for Sharing Research Data, 2023, 1st Conference on Research Data Infrastructure - Connecting Communities, CoRDI 2023, Karlsruhe, Germany, September 12-14, 2023. . Sure-Vetter, Y. & Goble, C. A. (eds.).Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
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