Meet the TRACE team

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Mansmann is a biostatistician and epidemiologist. He is professor at the Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology (IBE), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
One focus of his work is making clinical trial data shareable and using shared clinical trial data to consolidate and extend clinical knowledge ...more

Marcel Müller, M.Sc., is a Research Systems Architect working in several clinical studies. He designs, develops, and integrates research IT platforms that provide secure data access, robust integration, and scalable analytics across clinical and academic domains. His work spans end-to-end architecture, REDCap integration for streamlined research data flows, and custom solutions—APIs, data mappers, and user/identity management—that enable data sharing in medical science while adhering to FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) ...more

Samar Shamas, MSc., is an epidemiologist and data engineer focused on the first mile of study digitalization in a university-hospital environment. She specializes in translating study protocols into well-designed REDCap projects, building robust eCRFs with validation rules, branching logic, and versioning, and establishing repeatable data pipelines. A key emphasis of her work is rich metadata—clear data dictionaries, codebooks, and provenance—so that datasets are understandable, reusable, and ready for downstream analysis ...more

Nikolaus von Bomhard is IBE's and TRACE’s network engineer, responsible for the reliable, secure operation of our research services and identity infrastructure. He designs and maintains the networking and platform stack behind RStudio, Jupyter, TRACE, and Nextcloud, and oversees user management via LDAP ...more