The Works of DANTE - Issue 2

New General Manager for DANTE

The Works of DANTE is pleased to welcome Hans Döbbeling to DANTE, in the position of General Manager.

A physicist by education, Hans obtained his PhD from the University of Heidelberg in 1981. Following this he worked for 12 years as an experimental physicist in medium-energy nuclear physics at MPI für Kernphysik Heidelberg, at CERN in Geneva, at KEK in Tsukuba, and at PSI in Villigen. During his time at CERN, Hans specialised in data acquisition and trigger electronics of fixed target experiments. He was later head of the Physics Software Development Group at GSI in Darmstadt.

In 1994 Hans took a position as an IT manager, heading the computing department of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg. In this role for 9 years, he shaped the computing and network infrastructure of the lab and developed expertise in the IT requirements specific to the Life Sciences.

Hans brings all this experience to DANTE to focus on customer relations and to address the technical aspects of research networking.