Stefan Gradmann

Stefan degree Mann ( born September 22, 1958 in Marburg Lahn a d ) is library director and professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

After studying philosophy and literature in Paris and Freiburg im Breisgau and his dissertation in 1986 and a postgraduate studies in Cologne, he worked as a research librarian at the State and University Library Hamburg.

From 1992 to 1996 he was director of the North German Library Network, and then together with Reiner Diedrich Director of the Common Library Network ( GBV ). From 1997 to 2000 he worked at the Dutch company Pica library software.

Since 2000, he was - employed at the Regional Computing Center, University of Hamburg, where he led the group VCB - later as Deputy Director. Stefan degrees husband was also the Head of the German Academic Publishers Project (CAP). Since 2008 he has been president of the German Society for Information Science and Information Practice.

In 2008 he was appointed as a professor at the Institute of Library and Information Science at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In March 2013 he moved to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium ).