Information Technology
Dr. Claudia Galuschka
At DKFZ, Information technology (IT) is a basic need for the work of all employees. This is due, in particular, to modern laboratory techniques in the field of genome analysis as well as radiological image processing with their large data volumes on a petabyte scale. In order to gain significant information and knowledge from research data, elaborate technologies are necessary. But also the penetration of everyday work with communication technology and office applications is still increasing, as facility monitoring and more and more administrative processes are being digitized. The many aspects of IT security play an important role at DKFZ because processing of personal data takes place in many areas and is required in many national and international scientific projects and co-operations. Therefore not only confidentiality and integrity of the data and applications are important, but also the availability is essential for good co-operation. IT thus has a leading role as an enabling technology for the life sciences and especially for cancer research.
The Information Technology Core Facility (ITCF) is responsible for optimum usage of IT at DKFZ, for supporting staff of all departments in matters of choosing IT tools for their special needs as well as for providing central IT Services and support which are essential for everyone at DKFZ. Individual solutions are also supported in planning and operation. This is done on a service-oriented basis. All essential strategic and operational functions and tasks at DKFZ are substantially facilitated by the ITCF.
Working groups
The Application Development working group develops applications for all areas of the DKFZ. These are primarily web applications in connection with databases hosted on the central servers of the IT Core Facility. We also create the appropriate APIs (programming interfaces) to enable data exchange with third-party programs at the source code level.
Management-Team
9 Employees
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Dr. Claudia Galuschka
Head of Department
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Jürgen Trauth
WG Application Development
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Michael Cop
WG Desktop Services
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Jan Tölken
WG IT Security
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DKFZ CERT
WG IT Security
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Nils Kückenhoff
WG Network
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Heidrun Binder
WG Partner Sites
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Markus Hohenhaus
WG Server and Compute
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Heiko Rosenfelder
WG Software Systems
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