Dr. Stefan Voigt
Chairman of the board Open Search Foundation e.V.
Dr. Stefan Voigt
Chairman of the board at Open Search Foundation e.V.
“It is almost impossible for new, independent search engines to build their own comprehensive web index and establish themselves on the market, as the barriers to market entry are now extremely high. In addition, the search engine market is currently dominated by a quasi-monopoly.”
Dr. Stefan Voigt has been actively working since 2017 on networking research and data centres as well as other stakeholders from industry, politics and civil society in order to jointly design a distributed and open web search infrastructure for Europe.
In 2018, he founded the Open Search Foundation e.V. together with other experts and supporters and has been its Chairman and Managing Director since. Among other tasks, he coordinates the contributions to various research and development projects, including PriDI. Since 2000, he has been a research associate at the Earth Observation Center of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), where he has coordinated numerous national, European and international research projects and collaborations. He currently heads the OpenSearch@DLR project for unbiased searching and retrieval of scientific information on the web.
Dr. Stefan Voigt studied geography, physics, remote sensing and urban planning at LMU and TUM in Munich. He received his PhD in geosciences from the University of Bern in 2000.
