Dr. Ingo R. Keck is a physicist and holds the doctor europeus from the University of Granada, Spain. He started as researcher and lecturer in the fields of biomedical data analysis, machine learning and statistics in Spain and Germany, before he moved to Ireland to work in passive analytics and got involved in open data and blockchain. Back in Germany he founded the open science publisher Moringa Science Publishing and in 2019 joined the Leibniz Information Center for Science and Technology within the H2020 project QualiChain as expert for distributed ledger based technologies and system design.