Contact, Consulting, and Team
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The Service Center Research Data is your first point of contact for any questions regarding the handling of your research data. Feel free to contact us by email or through our appointment scheduling tool. We look forward to hearing from you.
How can you contact the Service Center Research Data?
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Send encrypted email via the SecureMail portal (for TUD external users only).
Visiting address:
Strehlener Str. 14
01069 Dresden
Postal address:
TUD Dresden University of Technology Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing
01062 Dresden
Office hours:
- Monday:
- 10:00 - 11:00
- Wednesday:
- 10:00 - 11:00
- Friday:
- 10:00 - 11:00
How can you schedule a consultation?
Would you like a personal consultation? If so, please schedule a consultation appointment using our appointment booking tool.
Please review our privacy policy before registering.
Can’t find a suitable time slot or still have questions? Then please contact us through the Service Center Research Data.
Who provides consulting services to research groups outside TUD?
Are you a member of one of the following institutions? If so, you can also schedule a consultation appointment via the appointment booking tool on the website of the Saxon state initiative SaxFDM.
- Saxony Cooperative State University (DHSN), Dresden Campus
- Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems (IKTS)
- Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS)
- Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism (HAIT)
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)
- Carl Maria von Weber University of Music, Dresden (HfM)
- University of Applied Sciences Dresden (HTW)
- Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (ISGV)
- Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (IFW)
- Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IÖR)
- Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden (IPF)
- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG)
Who is part of the Service Center Research Data team?
The Service Center Research Data is a collaborative initiative of the Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB) and the Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Sciences (CIDS) at TU Dresden. We are an interdisciplinary team that provides expert support for all questions related to research data management.
Dr. Denise Dörfel
Research Data Management Consulting
Denise Dörfel has been a member of the Service Center Research Data since 2022 and is deputy of the Unit "Distributed and Data Intensive Computing" at ZIH. She is responsible for RDM lectures and workshops and supports researchers in managing change processes through new workflows in research data management.
Dr. Torsten Gille
Research Data Management Consulting
Torsten Gille has been consulting for the Service Center Research Data since 2019. In this capacity, he develops tools for organizing research data workflows. His interests primarily lie in the development of systems for structured information management.
Billy Meyer
IT Specialist and Application Developer
Billy Koban has been working as an IT specialist at the Service Center Research Data since 2026. His work focuses on the development, configuration, and administration of data management software (e.g., ELN). He advises users on the technical options for implementing their specific requirements
Sebastian Preißler
IT Specialist and Application Developer
Sebastian Preißler has been an IT specialist at the Service Center Research Data since 2019. There, he works on the technical implementation and user-oriented optimization of data management software. His main focus lies on the development, configuration, and administration of web-based software. He offers consultations to help determine possible technical solutions based on individual requirements.
Dr. Katharina Zinke
Research Data Management Consulting
Alongside her tasks as a subject librarian, Katharina Zinke has been advising researchers since 2022 in the department of Research-related Services of the SLUB and at the Service Center Research Data. She is mainly concerned with conveying information through lectures and workshops on the topic of research data publication.
Ralph Müller-Pfefferkorn
Dr. Ralph Müller-Pfefferkorn
Research Data Management Consulting
Ralph Müller-Pfefferkorn is the head of the Unit "Distributed and Data Intensive Computing" at ZIH. For many years, he has been dealing with various aspects of data handling. His consultations focus on concepts, data management, software tools, and the archiving and publication of data.
