My name is Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner and I am a senior researcher at the Centre for Science & Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University. I also serve as Deputy Director of Research & Education and I co-coordinate the research focal area Evaluation & Culture. In the distant past, I received training to become a mechanical engineer before graduating with a degree in comparative literature at the University of Vienna. I then moved to the Netherlands where I obtained my PhD in science & technology studies (STS) at Leiden University in 2015.

My current research interests include practices of scholarly communication in different fields, practices of peer review in a publishing and in a funding context, as well as the interaction between different forms of evaluating academic work and the practices and content of academic research. I occasionally also pursue research on science policy efforts to make research more mission-driven. My work has inter alia been funded by the National Research Council of the Netherlands as well as the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

I am also affiliated with the Research on Research Institute (RoRI), in which I co-lead a research project to study the use of so-called narrative CV formats as used by various research funding bodies throughout Europe. In the past, I have been involved in various commissioned research projects, for example for the Research Councils of the Netherlands (on decision-making practices for interdisciplinary grant applications) and Switzerland (on the introduction of so-called narrative CV formats).