Fabian Kirstein is a research associate and software developer at DPS. His main areas of expertise are linked open data, service-oriented architectures, distributed ledger/blockchain technologies and decentralised data management. In these areas, he has worked on national and international research and industry projects. He is also doing his PhD at TU Berlin with Prof Manfred Hauswirth on the topic of provenance and traceability in distributed open data ecosystems.

• Data infrastructures for data-driven government
• Research Data Infrastructure
• Blockchain and Distributed Ledger