Tobias Weigel is a computer scientist working at the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) particularly in the areas of data infrastructures and persistent identifier services. Activities he is involved in include EUDAT services as well as big data management and analytics services for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 6 (CMIP6), which will generate the largest assembly of climate modelling data over the next years. Tobias holds a PhD in computer science from Hamburg University and is editorial board member of the CODATA Data Science Journal. Tobias was and is co-chair of multiple working groups of the Research Data Alliance focused on PIDs, typing and actionable collections, and is a member of its Technical Advisory Board.