Sonja Schimmler is responsible for the topic ‚Research Data Infrastructures‘ at Fraunhofer FOKUS. She is also an associated researcher at Technical University of Berlin. Currently, she leads the research group ‚Digitalisation and Science‘ at Weizenbaum Institute, is principal investigator of the project ‚A Digital Research Space for the BUA‘ within the Berlin University Alliance, is co-spokesperson of the consortium NFDI4Cat and spokesperson of the consortium NFDI4DataScience.   
In her research, she focuses on the digitalisation and opening up of science and puts a special emphasis on research data infrastructures. Her research interests range from semantic web and linked data over data science and artificial intelligence to software engineering and human-centered computing. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich. She studied Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich and at the Georgia Institute of Technology (USA).