Dr. Tillmann Fischer

Tillmann earned this M. Sc. in chemistry from Leipzig University. He continued at Leipzig University and received his PhD in 2021 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Kirsten Zeitler on the development of innovative purely organic cyanoarene photocatalysts. While he kept shining light on novel photocatalyst candidates, he gained first RDM experiences by planning, setting up, and maintaining infrastructure for the provision of an ELN, including an inventory of samples, and network drives, including backup and long-term archiving. One of his passions is the integration of analytical instrumentation into the RDM infrastructure for seamless data flows.

He then joined the group of Dr. habil. Steffen Neumann at Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB) Halle to be part of the development and maintenance of a national research data infrastructure for chemistry NFDI4Chem, where he focused on publishing standards with and for authors and publishers and the optimisation of submission workflows for Chemotion Repository, nmrXiv, RADAR(4Chem) and MassBank EU. He is the project manager of the NFDI4Chem Task Area Standards but also one of the main contributors of the NFDI4Chem Knowledge Base and associate editor of the section on data publishing.

In July 2024, Tillmann moved to UFZ Leipzig to join the group of Prof. Dr. Werner Brack, continuing his work with and for NFDI4Chem, focusing on environmental chemistry (meta)data. There is an urgent need for standards on minimum information to form the basis of discipline-specific metadata schemas, to be able to specify standards for data exchange and to move towards the vision that all chemists publish FAIR data.

Selected publications

S. Neumann, F. Bach, L. Castro, T. G. Fischer, S. Hofmann, P.-C. Huang, N. Jung, B. Katabathuni, F. Mauz, R. Meier, V. C. Nainala, N. Rayya, C. Steinbeck, O. Koepler. Harmonising, Harvesting, and Searching Metadata across a Repository Federation, Proc. Conf. Res. Data Infastruc. (CoRDI), 2023, 1, https://doi.org/10.52825/cordi.v1i.202

N. A. Parks*, T. G. Fischer*, C. Blankenburg, V. F. Scalfani, L. R. McEwen, S. Herres-Pawlis, S. Neumann. The current landscape of author guidelines in chemistry through the lens of research data sharing, Pure Appl. Chem. 2023, 95, 439–450, https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2022-1001, Secondary publication (postprint), RWTH Publications 2024, https://doi.org/10.18154/rwth-2023-02772

D. Rauh, C. Blankenburg, T. G. Fischer, N. Jung, S. Kuhn, U. S. Schatzschneider, T. Schulze, S. Neumann. Data Format Standards in Analytical Chemistry, Pure Appl. Chem. 2022, 94, 725–736, https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2021-3101, Secondary publication (postprint), KITOpen 2023, https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000150893

E. Speckmeier,* T. G. Fischer,* K. Zeitler. A Toolbox Approach To Construct Broadly Applicable Metal-Free Catalysts for Photoredox Chemistry: Deliberate Tuning of Redox Potentials and Importance of Halogens in Donor−Acceptor Cyanoarenes, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 15353–15365, https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b08933

* These researchers contributed equally.

Selected data publications

N. Keltsch, V. Munzert, K.-P. Zeller, H.-U. Siehl, S. Berger, D. Sicker, T. G. Fischer (Data Curator). Linderazulen aus einer invasiven Pflanze, Chemotion Repository 2023, https://doi.org/10.14272/LMVGRKPOXLBIFQ-UHFFFAOYSA-N.1

F. Schulze, J. Titus, P. Mettke, S. Berger, H.-U. Siehl, K.-P. Zeller, D. Sicker, T. G. Fischer (Data Curator). Karminsäure, RADAR4Chem 2022, https://doi.org/10.22000/795

S. S. Çiçek, M. P. Galarza Pérez, A. Wenzel-Storjohann, R. M. Bezerra, J. F. O. Segovia, U. Girreser, I. Kanzaki, D. Tasdemir, T. G. Fischer (Data Curator). Antimicrobial Prenylated Isoflavones from the Leaves of the Amazonian Medicinal Plant Vatairea guianensis Aubl, nmrXiv 2024, https://doi.org/10.57992/nmrxiv.p55