Germany, Deputy Head of Ombuds Committee for Research Integrity (OWID), ENRIO
Viktor Scholz Faber is the deputy head of office at the Ombuds Committee for Research Integrity (OWID). In close collaboration with the Ombuds Committee, he advises researchers of all disciplines in questions of good research practice together with Hjördis Czesnick and their team. In addition, OWID supports the continuous development of the national and international rules of good research practice. In training activities for ombudspersons and research institutions, his particular focus is on the use of AI in research from the perspective of integrity.
Until 2025, Viktor Scholz Faber was a team member of the Center for Open and Responsible Research at the Berlin University Alliance. In addition, he was responsible for the production of a multimedia E-learning course on good research practice for doctoral researchers and worked in a project that developed new models for the professionalisation of Berlin ombuds systems. Viktor Scholz Faber holds a PhD in Islamic Studies which he obtained at the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies and Freie Universität Berlin.