Tibor Kálmán served as Vice-Chair of the DARIAH Joint Research Committee, member of the Senior Management Team, as well as Co-Head of the Virtual Competency Center ‘eInfrastructure’ for many years. Tibor received his PhD degree in Computer Science from University of Göttingen, Germany. His PhD thesis focused on achieving interoperability between information systems of distributed research infrastructures, by information exchange, resource discovery, and service quality monitoring across organizations. Currently, Tibor contributes at GWDG, Germany to several European and national funded projects with the aim of building up research infrastructures for various disciplines. Previously, his teaching activities included amongst others the theory and practice of distributed systems, parallel computing, and data management. Tibor is Chair of the Technical Board of the ‘Persistent Identifier Consortium for e-Research’ (ePIC), leads the ‘Discovery and Referencing’ (PID) Task at the DICE project, and has been member of the Steering Group of DARIAH-DE.