Dr. Stefan Voigt is founder and CEO of the Open Search Foundation e.V., a German non-profit advancing public, federated search infrastructures for Europe. Since 2000, he has been with the German Aerospace Center (DLR), leading research in Earth Observation and humanitarian technologies. He holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Bern (2000) and studied geography, physics, remote sensing, and urban planning at LMU and TU Munich. In 2017, he initiated the European Open Web Search Initiative and helps coordinating it since. He currently leads the OpenSearch@DLR project. His work focuses on developing open, resilient digital infrastructures with measurable societal impact.