Curriculum Vitae Felix Bach

• July 2019
  Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Thesis: Neue datenintensive Methoden zur skalierbaren explorativen Analyse großer Zeitreihendaten und Anwendung auf hochfrequente Stromnetz-Messdaten - magna cum laude (very good)
• Jan. 2009
  Master of Science (M.Sc.), Hochschule Karlsruhe - Technik und Wirtschaft, Thesis: Kamerabasierte Autokalibrierung des Panorama Screens des Zentrums für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe (ZKM), Institut für Bildmedien.
• Febr. 2006
  Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Hochschule Karlsruhe - Technik und Wirtschaft, Thesis: Simulation von Kristallwachstum mit Zellulären Automaten, Institut für Angewandte Materialien Karlsruhe (IAM)

• Since 2022 
  Head of Research Data Unit, FIZ Karlsruhe within the eResearch program unit
• 2019 – 2021 
  Postdoc at SCC (KIT)
  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen / Karlsruhe Dept. Scientific Data Management (SDM), Serviceteam RDM@KIT, Projects bwDataArchive, MoMaF, NFDI4Chem and others, see list of projects below
• Oct. 2015 – 2019 
  Research associate at SCC (KIT)
  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC),  Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen / Karlsruhe Dept. Scientific Data Management (SDM), Serviceteam RDM@KIT, Projects bwDataArchive and others, see list of projects below
• Feb. 2010 – Sep. 2015 
  Research associate at IAI (KIT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institut für Angewandte Informatik / Automatisierungstechnik 
  Development of FraScaTi (Framework for Scalable management and analysis of large Time series data), using Java, Swing, Processing, jMotif, Prefuse, Hadoop, Apache Pig. 
  Development of an Augmented Reality hometraining system for patients with phantom pain within the scope of the EU (ERC) project PhantomMind (HMD-HW-Design, C++, openCV, openGL)

• 2015 - 2018    
  bwDataArchiv – Archiving of research and library data (and associated projects), KIT, SCC. Sponsor: MWK BW
  Technologies: 2 Tape Libraries (Oracle, IBM), IBM High Performance Storage System (HPSS), gtransfer/gridftp, sftp, RedHat Enterprise Server, Puppet, Foreman, Web Programming (PHP, Bootstrap), AAI (bwIDM, Shibboleth, PBKDF2), MySQL. Now operated as Dienst bwDataArchive – Archiving service for academic and public institutions in Baden-Württemberg 
• 2016 - 2019    
  bwDIM - data in motion. Optimisation of data flow concepts in BW
  Sponsor: MWK BW
  Technologies: OAI-PMH, DataCite Metadata, DOIs, gtransfer/gridftp, sftp, bwDataArchive (s.o.), Web Programming (PHP, Bootstrap), AAI (bwIDM, Shibboleth), MySQL
• 2018 - 2021    
  Sustainable Lifecycle Management for Scientific Software (SuLMaSS)
  Sponsor: DFG
  Technologies: Development & setup of an advanced collaborative software development environment, based on GitLab & Grav CMS for the platform openCARP. Functions: Code review, CI, continuous automated testing, DevOps, feature-requests, ORCID-integration, long-term software preservation, citable publishing of software releases along with relevant metadata (via RADAR API).
• 2019 - 2023    
  SDC MoMaF (Scientific Data Center für Molekulare Materialforschung)
  Sponsor: MWK BW
  Technologies: Grav CMS, Chemotion ELN & Repository (Ruby on Rails, Java Script), Python, Vue.js, bwDataArchive (s.o.).
• 2020 - ongoing 
  SciMotion ELN – generic electronic lab book for the KIT
  Sponsor: KIT – in-house (measure of excellence RDM)
  Technology: virtual machines, Kubernetes, Ruby on Rails, Java Script, Python, Redis
• 2020 - ongoing 
  NFDI4Chem – Chemistry consortium within the national research data infrastructure(NFDI)
  Sponsor: DFG
  Technology: various repositories and ELN, interface design, meta data, persistent identifier, digital preservation, etc., see application
• 2021 - ongoing 
  Publishing large data volumes in RADAR4KIT
  Sponsor: KIT – in-house (measure of excellence RDM)
  Technology: virtual machines, HPSS, LSDF, web design

• National Institutes of Health (NIH): Bethesda, Maryland, US, 2019-10-01 | 2018 NCATS ASPIRE Design Challenge Prize (Challenge 2: Electronic Synthetic Chemistry Portal for Translational Innovation in Pain, Opioid Use Disorder and Overdose) (National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences)
• 2010 best young academics paper at the 7th workshop of Fachgruppe VR/AR der Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) for the contribution in:
  Bach F, Buschmann J, Schmitz B, Maaß H, Çakmak H, Diers M, Foell J, Kamping S, Flor H: Therapie von Phantomschmerzen mit VR/AR-Technologies. Virtuelle und erweiterte Realität : 7. Workshop der GI-Fachgruppe VR/AR: Berichte aus der Informatik, Ed.: Bohn Christian-A, Blach Roland, 09/2010: pages 171-182; Shaker-Verl., 2010.

ORCID: 0000-0002-5035-7978