Open Science Specialist, ETH Zurich - Global Health Engineering. Director & Founder, Lars Schöbitz GmbH.
Environmental engineer and data scientist working in the global water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector. Open Science Specialist at ETH Zurich, where I help researchers make their work reproducible and their data open. I founded and lead openwashdata, teach data science with R, and write and manage the grants that fund this work.
lars@lse.de lschoebitz@ethz.ch github.com/larnsce ORCID 0000-0003-2196-5015 linkedin.com/in/larsschoebitz

Talk. Swiss Research Data Conference (RDC 2026) - SRDSN, Bern, CH
RepositoryWorkshop. Swiss Research Data Conference (RDC 2026) - SRDSN, Bern, CH
RepositoryTalk. EnhanceR Symposium 2026 - EnhanceR association, Villigen, CH
RepositoryTalk. Data Stewardship Network (DSN) Autumn Community Meeting, ETH Zurich, Zurich, CH
Talk. FAIRqual stakeholder workshop with the Reallabor Jurapark, ETH Zurich, Zurich, CH
My research sits at the intersection of environmental engineering, global sanitation, and data science.
Software and dataI build and lead open-data communities and FAIR data tooling for the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector, and I write and manage the grants that fund them.
TeachingI teach reproducible data science with R and Quarto to newcomers, from graduate courses to free online cohorts and hands-on workshops for scientists and civil servants.
MediaSelected coverage, recordings and video features of my work on open research data and sanitation.
CVWork experience, education, grants, roles and skills, with the full CV and a one-page CV as PDF.