Martin Fenner is the DataCite Technical Director and manages the technical architecture for Datacite as well as DataCite’s technical contributions for the EU-funded THOR project. From 2012 to 2015 he was technical lead for the PLOS Article-Level Metrics project. He served on the Board of the Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) initiative from 2010-2012, and worked for ORCID EU in the EC-funded ODIN project from 2012 to 2013. Martin has a medical degree from the Free University of Berlin and is a Board-certified medical oncologist.