Dr Tobias Guggenberger

Dr Tobias Guggenberger has been Group Leader at the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering (ISST) since February 2024. In this role, he drives the scientific development of economic and technical concepts in the field of data spaces. He is also an active member of the ‘Digital Business Models’ working group of the Industry 4.0 platform.

Dr Guggenberger has been a project manager at the Data Space Support Centre (DSSC) since October 2022. The DSSC's mission is to support the creation of shared data spaces that enable the sovereign, interoperable and trustworthy exchange of data between organisations. The aim is to promote the reuse of data within and across different sectors. The DSSC, which is funded by the European Commission as part of the Digital Europe Programme, is aimed at the public sector and companies wishing to establish sovereign data spaces.

In his role, Dr Guggenberger supports the coordination of the DSSC project, leads expert groups and develops the DSSC Blueprint, a blueprint for data spaces. In doing so, he contributes to the vision of the DSSC by researching the needs of data space initiatives, defining common requirements and establishing best practices to accelerate the formation of sovereign data spaces.

Prior to his work at Fraunhofer ISST, and until today in parallel, he has been working as a researcher and doctoral student at the Chair of Industrial Information Management at TU Dortmund University since March 2019. Among other things, he supervised the development and implementation of the master's course ‘Industrial Information Management’. He completed his doctorate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at TU Dortmund University with the dissertation ‘Federated Data Services in Industrial Ecosystems’.

His research and work interests include the areas of data spaces, digital ecosystems and business models, specialising in innovative solutions for data-driven value creation.