Frank Oliver Glöckner is Professor of Earth System Data Science in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bremen. He is Head of the Data Division at the Computing and Data Centre of the Alfred Wegener Institute Bremerhaven and Associate Professor of Bioinformatics at Jacobs University Bremen. He is the overall manager of the PANGAEA information system for earth and environmental sciences at MARUM and spokesperson for the NFDI4BioDiversity consortium. Based at MARUM and AWI, his interdisciplinary team combines geological, biological, engineering and software development expertise and is nationally and internationally recognised in research data management, data logistics and data analysis.