Workshop on FAIR Data in Plasma Science (FDPS-V)
The 5th Workshop on FAIR Data in Plasma Science (FDPS-V) took place online and in-person on 11-12 May, 2026 at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Germany. It was a continuation of annual events on research data management in the low-temperature plasma (LTP) community aiming to inform about current developments and to strengthen community exchange on this topic.
FDPS-V provided an overview of successful solutions for collaborative research data management aimed at making data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR), thereby fostering broader use of data-driven research methods. The program covered best practices for everyday research activities as well as infrastructure tools for research data handling. Successful examples from plasma research groups and collaborative research centers were presented. In addition, developments and standardization efforts for data sharing and reporting within the LTP community and beyond were discussed.
The workshop was held as a hybrid event, participation was free of charge.
Venue
B im Beckmanns Hof an der Ruhr-Universität
Room Shanghai
Im Lottental 88a
44801 Bochum
Germany
Programme
Workshop agenda (time is given in Central European Summer Time):
May 11th, 2026
| 14:00 |
Welcome
[slides] Marina Prenzel (Ruhr University Bochum), Kerstin Sgonina (Kiel University), Markus Becker (INP Greifswald) |
| 14:15 |
Solutions for institutional research data management at INP Robert Wagner (INP Greifswald) |
| 14:40 |
Coffee & cookies & communities, building RDM networks
[slides] Marlene Pacharra (Ruhr University Bochum) |
| 15:05 |
Introduction to eLabFTW and levels of experiment documentation Kerstin Sgonina (Kiel University) |
| 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:45 |
Hands-on challenge on experiment documentation Kerstin Sgonina (Kiel University) |
| 16:45 | Poster session |
| 19:00 | Joint dinner at Q-West |
May 12th, 2026
| 09:00 |
Metadata schema approach for explosion protection Carsten Uber & Michael Hilbert (PTB Braunschweig) |
| 09:25 |
Connecting non-thermal plasma research with real-world applications: a FAIR metadata schema for food decontamination studies Georgios Pampoukis (ETH Zurich) |
| 09:50 |
Schema‑driven data management for simulation, modelling, and experimental data in PlasmArc4Green using Adamant and Nextcloud Magdalena Schatzl & Hamideh Hassanpour Guilvaiee (K1-MET GmbH) |
| 10:15 | Coffee break with posters |
| 10:45 |
Metadata management in natural sciences Beatrice Weers (Leibniz Institute of Surface Engineering (IOM), Leibzig) |
| 11:10 |
Practical implementation and use of RDM systems for bioimaging in plasma medicine with Jupyter Notebook
[slides] Mohsen Ahmadi (INP Greifswald) |
| 11:35 |
ChemCat and further LXCat3-based developments for reproducible plasma simulation Daan Boer & Jan van Dijk (Eindhoven University of Technology) |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 13:15 |
Introducing FID Physik – a discipline-specific information service for physics Lina Bockhorn (TIB Hannover) |
| 13:40 |
FID Materials Science – tools and services Christiane Schmidt (TIB Hannover) |
| 14:05 |
Towards structured, AI‑ready data for the atomic layer deposition and etching community Sameer Sadruddin (TIB Hannover) & Eleni Poupaki (Eindhoven University of Technology) |
| 14:30 | Closing |
Contact
Dr. Marina Prenzel
(sie/ihr; she/her)
Science Manager
Plasma Science Hub
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Universitätsstraße 150, NB 5/126
44780 Bochum
Germany
Phone: +49-234-32-23688
E-mail: marina.prenzel@rub.de
https://plasma-science.rub.de
Sponsoring
The workshop organization was part of the activities of the working group Experimental Plasma Physics at the Kiel University (CAU), the INF project of the CRC 1316 at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) and of the research programme Smart Data Technologies at Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP). It was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – project numbers 327886311 and 558452925 and under the National Research Data Infrastructure – NFDI 46/1 – 501864659.
