Open Science/Stakeholders/Lambert Heller

About Lambert

Lambert Heller, 2025.

Lambert Heller is the head of the Open Science Lab at TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology in Hannover, Germany, which serves as the German National Library of Science and Technology.

His work bridges traditional librarian and archival topics around preserving and distributing knowledge and other cultural heritage with advanced information studies and innovative digital approaches, focusing on the leading role of libraries in transforming traditional knowledge ecosystems towards open ones.

Fact Sheet

• Name: Heller, Lambert

• Academic Degrees:
  • Social Sciences, Master of Arts (M.A.)
  • Library and Information Science, Master of Arts (M.A. LIS), Humboldt University Berlin

• Primary Affiliation: TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Hannover, Germany (TIB Hannover)

• Position: Head of Open Science Lab, TIB Hannover

• Memberships & Secondary Affiliations:
  • University of Victoria as a visiting fellow at Kula – Library Futures Academy from July-September 2025
  • NFDI4Culture consortium
  • Medien in der Wissenschaft book series (editorial board member)
  • ISCC Foundation (advisory board member)
  • Enter-Award (jury member)
  • "Stop Tracking Science" initiative (co-initiator) [link to archived page in the Wayback Machine]

• Professional profiles:
  • Institutional page: TIB VIVO Profile
  • ORCiD: 0000-0003-0232-7085
  • Mastodon: @Lambo@openbiblio.social
  • Other profiles:
    • Google Scholar
    • LinkedIn
    • Academia.edu (not actively used)
    • ResearchGate (not actively used)

• Personal Website: biblionik.org

Professional Background

Areas of Expertise

• Open Science/Open Scholarship
• Citizen Science
• Other participatory scholarly concepts, like barcamps, hackathons, and hands-on labs
• Wikis, Book Sprints and other approaches to collaboratively curate open knowledge resources
• Scholarly Communication & Research Information Infrastructure
• Digital Collective Memory

Kula & TIB

Lambert Heller served as the Kula: Library Futures Academy's inaugural International Visiting Fellow in the summer of 2025. During his fellowship, Lambert contributed to UVic Libraries' and KULA's understanding and implementation of open science and citizen science, related practices and community engagement. He was also instrumental in facilitating European collaboration opportunities and introduced open source software, such as the Kompakkt 3D viewing software developed at TIB.

In the fall of 2025, Lambert was instrumental in supporting a Hannah Arendt Fellowship application that was awarded to Nathaniel Brunt and Ina Blümel,  Deputy Head of the Open Science Lab and Professor of Library and Information Studies at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences.

Contributions & Outputs

Publications (selection)

1. Fahrenkrog, G., Heller, L., & Blümel, I. (2023). Hackathons and other participatory open science formats. Research Ideas and Outcomes, 9, e94851. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.9.e94851
2. Tinnemann, P., Froehmel, A., & Heller, L. (2021). We are making a digital Open-access Textbook-with Book Sprints we bring together Expert Knowledge and make it available free of charge. GESUNDHEITSWESEN, 83(08/09), 739–740. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=11941340981943823416&hl=en&oi=scholarr
3. Turki, H., Hadj Taieb, M. A., Ben Aouicha, M., Fraumann, G., Hauschke, C., & Heller, L. (2021). Enhancing Knowledge Graph Extraction and Validation From Scholarly Publications Using Bibliographic Metadata. Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/frma.2021.694307
4. Altenhöner, R., Blümel, I., Boehm, F., Bove, J., Bicher, K., Bracht, C., Brand, O., Dieckmann, L., Effinger, M., Hagener, M., Hammes, A., Heller, L., Kailus, A., Kohle, H., Ludwig, J., Münzmay, A., Pittroff, S., Razum, M., Röwenstrunk, D., … Wiermann, B. (2020). NFDI4Culture—Consortium for research data on material and immaterial cultural heritage. Research Ideas and Outcomes, 6, e57036. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.6.e57036
5. Keck, I. R., Vidal, M.-E., & Heller, L. (2020). Digital Transformation of Education Credential Processes and Life Cycles – A Structured Overview on Main Challenges and Research Questions. International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and Online Learning : eLmL / IARIA, 27–30. https://doi.org/10.34657/13546
6. Fraumann, G., Lilienthal, S., Heller, L., & Hauschke, C. (2019). ROSI (Reference Implementation for Open Scientometric Indicators). https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/KY3NE
7. Heller, L., datawomanHUB, mcancellieri, Kramer, B., Ross-Hellauer, T., ilabastida, helenebr, Fernandes, P., & Tennant, J. (2018). Open Science Training Handbook. TIB Hannover. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1212538
8. Sohmen, L., Charbonnier, J., Blümel, I., Wartena, C., & Heller, L. (2018a). Figures in Scientific Open Access Publications. In E. Méndez, F. Crestani, C. Ribeiro, G. David, & J. C. Lopes (Eds.), Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge (pp. 220–226). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00066-0_19
9. Einbock, J., Dreyer, B., Heller, L., Kraft, A., Niemeyer, S., Plank, M., Schrenk, P., Sens, I., Struß, J. M., & Tullney, M. (2017). The Information Procurement and Publishing Behaviour of Researchers in the Natural Sciences and Engineering. https://doi.org/10.34713/APM4-RM61
10. Heck, T., Blümel, I., Heller, L., Mazarakis, A., Peters, I., Scherp, A., & Weisel, L. (2017). Survey: Open Science In Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.400561

Policy, Advocacy, & Service (selection)

Lambert serves as reviewer for Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), VolkswagenStiftung, NWO (Dutch Research Council) and others.