BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Moritz Schubotz heads the Research and Projects Mathematics department at FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure and is a substitute lecturer at Humboldt University Berlin. He also collaborates closely with Gipplab, advising Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD students.

Dr. Schubotz is dedicated to advancing the field of decentralized information infrastructure for mathematical research and beyond. Unlike traditional centralized and federated approaches, his research explores the potential of decentralized architectures to improve scalability, resilience against censorship and disinformation, reduce access barriers, and enhance efficiency and sustainability. Together with Gipplab Ph.D. students Cornelius Ihle and Dennis Trautwein, he conducts in-depth studies of peer-to-peer protocols, working to deepen the understanding of decentralized technology stacks. His project team in Berlin is already applying these insights to infrastructure projects in Germany and across Europe.

A passionate advocate for AI-ready mathematical research data, Dr. Schubotz works alongside André Greiner-Petter, Philipp Scharpf, Ankit Satpute, Maxence Azzouz-Thouderoz, and Felix Petersen. Together, they research methods and tools to make mathematical expressions more accessible and beneficial for both humans and machines.

Since 2014, Dr. Schubotz has been an off-site collaborator at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the U.S. From July 2017 to August 2018, he was a fellow at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, Japan. He earned his Ph.D. (summa cum laude) in Computer Science from TU Berlin, Germany.

With over 60 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Schubotz has also played a key role in securing funding through numerous successful grant applications. He has served for several years as an elected member of various university committees, including the Fakultätsrat (Faculty Board), Haushaltsausschuss (Financial Steering Committee), and Akademischer Senat (University Senate).

In his spare time, Dr. Schubotz enjoys spending time with his three children and, when possible, participating in team sports in the water, such as canoe polo and water polo.

SHORT CV

since 04/2025

Substitute Lecturer
Humboldt University Berlin

since 10/2024

Head of Department
Department Research & Projects Mathematics, FIZ Karlsruhe, Berlin, Germany

10/2022 – 04/2023
10/2021 – 04/2022

Interim Professor
University of Wuppertal, Germany

04/2019 – 09/2024

Senior researcher
Department of Mathematics, FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany

09/2018 – 03/2019

Senior researcher
Data & Knowledge Engineering Group, University of Wuppertal, Germany

2017 – 2018

Postdoc
National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan

2016 – 2017

Research Associate
Information Science Group, University of Konstanz, Germany

2012 – 2016

Research Associate
Database and Information Management Group, TU Berlin, Germany

Current teaching and student projects

•  Information Processing and Storage [moodle] [agnes]
• Student projects in gipplab courses

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

The complete list of publications is available here.

D. Trautwein, Y. Wei, Y. Psaras, M. Schubotz, I. Castro, B. Gipp, and G. Tyson, “IPFS in the Fast Lane: Accelerating Record Storage with Optimistic Provide,” in IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Vancouver, Canada, 2024.

A. Satpute, N. Giessing, A. Greiner-Petter, M. Schubotz, O. Teschke, A. Aizawa, and B. Gipp, “Can LLMs Master Math? Investigating Large Language Models on Math Stack Exchange,” in Proceedings of 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’24), Washington, USA, 2024.

A. Greiner-Petter, M. Schubotz, C. Breitinger, P. Scharpf, A. Aizawa, and B. Gipp, “Do the Math: Making Mathematics in Wikipedia Computable,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 45, iss. 4, pp. 4384-4395, 2023.