The idea of is twenty-five years old, dating from when I first considered working as an independent scientist and consultant. By , I mean “through knowledge”. Knowledge is a concept that has fascinated me since my youth. I believe that knowledge changes the world, that knowledge itself changes continuously and, more recently, that digitalisation and AI have brought us into an age defined by changes in knowledge.

I am aware that the name is unwieldy and almost unpronounceable [pɛr ˈsʃiː.ɛn.ti.am]. So I shortened it to Per-Sci [pɛr ʃi] and, for the logo, to simply [ʃi]. In the logo, [ʃ] stands for knowledge and [i] stands for a human leaning into knowledge. The impression that the logo can also be read as “AI” is intentional.

About me

For more than twenty-five years, I have worked at the intersection of research, information and institutional change. My career has taken me from neuroscience to research infrastructures, from scholarly communication to university leadership, and from academic libraries to international collaborations on Open Science and digital transformation.

I believe that thoughtful advice depends on more than experience alone. It requires curiosity, independence and a willingness to question assumptions. My advisory work and my research inform one another. Working with institutions allows me to test ideas against practice; independent research provides the distance needed to reflect critically on experience.

This website

This website presents version 0.6 of a living scholarly edition generated from the corpus held in its Git repository. Its content, coverage and presentation will continue to be revised as the underlying research and documentation develop. Publications, roles, organisations and a selection of projects are represented; talks will be added in a later release.

The idea of building the website as a repository-based scholarly edition was facilitated by AI. Corpus records and editorial texts are maintained as Markdown files, edited in Obsidian and Visual Studio Code, and versioned with Git. A dependency-free Ruby generator transforms the repository into static HTML and CSS. AI supports modelling, normalization, auditing and production, while editorial judgement and acceptance remain human responsibilities.