Dr Daniel Thiemert joined ECMWF in 2015 as Project Manager in the Research Department. Before joining ECMWF, he was working for the University of Reading as Senior Researcher and Project Manager, being responsible for the management and coordinator of large scale European and national projects in the area of intelligent systems. He obtained his masters in computer science from the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Germany, and his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Reading, UK. At ECMWF he is responsible for the project management of the EU-funded projects such as ESCAPE, ESCAPE-2, CHE, CoCO2 as well as for managing externally funded project acquisition.

Daniel is the project manager for CONFESS.