Lars Schöbitz
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Lars Schöbitz

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.

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lars@lse.de lschoebitz@ethz.ch github.com/larnsce ORCID 0000-0003-2196-5015 linkedin.com/in/larsschoebitz

Portrait of Lars Schöbitz

15
years in WASH
40
talks and workshops
11
courses taught
12
publications

Upcoming

19 November 2026 Embedded data stewardship and research intelligence: five years of practice at a research group at ETH Zurich

Talk. Swiss Research Data Conference (RDC 2026) - SRDSN, Bern, CH

Repository
20 November 2026 Git for Scientists: hands-on workshop

Workshop. Swiss Research Data Conference (RDC 2026) - SRDSN, Bern, CH

Repository
30 November 2026 Teaching Git, GitHub, and coding agents to researchers who do not come from IT

Talk. EnhanceR Symposium 2026 - EnhanceR association, Villigen, CH

Repository

Recent talks and materials

September 2026 Git for Scientists - so that we can still prove what is human

Talk. Data Stewardship Network (DSN) Autumn Community Meeting, ETH Zurich, Zurich, CH

September 2026 Agents for Scientists

Workshop. ETH Zurich - Global Health Engineering, Zurich, CH

August 2026 Data repositories and access restrictions - FAIRqual stakeholder workshop

Talk. FAIRqual stakeholder workshop with the Reallabor Jurapark, ETH Zurich, Zurich, CH

All talks and workshops

Latest writing

20 October 2026From a raw spreadsheet to a published data package in a dayopenwashdata Blog July 2026Who wrote this? Scientific integrity at ETH Zurich in the age of AIGHE Blog 22 June 2026From course project to published dataset and paper: a collaboration with Kelsey Shawopenwashdata Blog

All posts

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Research

My research sits at the intersection of environmental engineering, global sanitation, and data science.

Software and data

I 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.

Teaching

I 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.

Media

Selected coverage, recordings and video features of my work on open research data and sanitation.

CV

Work experience, education, grants, roles and skills, with the full CV and a one-page CV as PDF.

Get in touch

lars@lse.de lschoebitz@ethz.ch github.com/larnsce ORCID 0000-0003-2196-5015 linkedin.com/in/larsschoebitz

 

Lars Schöbitz · Open Science Specialist · ETH Zurich · lars@lse.de