Stefan Buerli

Lic. sc. pol.

Head of group DTS

+41 (0)21 692 37 29

Languages: German, French, English

Biography

Stefan Buerli has a lic. rer. pol. in political sciences from the University of Lausanne and a maîtrise in social sciences. He started to work at SIDOS, the Swiss Information and Data Archives Service for the Social Sciences as a web editor and research information database manager. From 2008 to 2020, Stefan Buerli was the project leader for the Annual survey on research in the social sciences in Switzerland at FORS. He was also heavily involved in the design and setup of FORSbase and has been the product owner of the data preservation and sharing platform SWISSUbase since 2019. He is leading the Data Tools and Services Group since 2021.

Expertise

Stefan Buerli has more than 20 years of experience in research information systems. From 2002 to 2022, he conducted the Annual survey on research in the social sciences in Switzerland. In parallel, he has also been involved in several projects pushing for easier access to data on the national level (ORD@CH – Open Research Data in Switzerland, Connectome) and the European level (Data Without Boundaries – DwB, EOSC Commons), as well as in the development of national data sharing platforms and services such as FORSbase and SWISSUbase. His priorities are on offering tools, services and policies to help the research communities in their efforts to make their data FAIR and as open as possible.

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