Carsten Kettner

Biophysicist

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Carsten Kettner studied biology at the University of Bonn and obtained his diploma at the University of Göttingen. In 1999, he was awarded his PhD for his work on the biophysical comprehension of the yeast vacuolar ATPase applying electrophysiological techniques at the University of Karlsruhe. As a post-doctoral student he continued both the studies on the biophysical properties of the pump and the investigation of the kinetics and regulation of the plasma membrane potassium channel. In 2000, he joined the Beilstein-Institut. Here, he is responsible (a) for the organization of the Beilstein symposia, (b) for the project management of the data standardization initiatives, and (c) for the marketing of the Beilstein-Institut’s projects, especially the Beilstein Journals. In 2007 he was awarded his certificate of competence as project manager for his studies and thesis from the Studiengemeinschaft Darmstadt (a certified service provider). Since 2004 he coordinates the work of the STRENDA commission and promotes guidelines for reporting enzyme data along with the commissioners. These reporting standards have been adopted by, today, over 55 biochemical journals for their instructions for authors and are incorporated in the electronic data validation and storage tool, STRENDA DB. Since 2011, Carsten co-ordinates the MIRAGE project which aims at establishing uniform reporting and representation of glycomics data in publications and which became an essential hub for the development of glycomics infrastructure. In 2014, Carsten was appointed the head of the funding and conferences department which is also in charge of the foundation’s public relationships. He is very interested in any aspects of open science and open access and thus he is actively engaged in a number of initiatives that are dedicated to make scientific data open and accessible to the wider public including NFDI4Chem, Force11 and RDA (Chemical Data, FAIRsharing).