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14. May 2025

CASSIS congratulates the founding of TILLER ALPHA GmbH CASSIS congratulates the founding of TILLER ALPHA GmbH

The Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies (CASSIS) warmly congratulates the founding of TILLER ALPHA GmbH, a pioneering initiative aimed at unlocking the potential of international research infrastructures through artificial intelligence.

We are especially proud that Dr. Katharina C. Cramer and Nicolas V. Rüffin, both Senior Fellows at CASSIS, are part of the founding team. With their expertise at the intersection of science policy, research governance, and strategic analysis, they contribute significantly to bridging academic research and practical application.

TILLER ALPHA’s platform uses AI-driven data analytics to map usage patterns and cooperation networks within major research infrastructures—providing a forward-looking tool for strategic science policy, institutional planning, and international collaboration.

CASSIS extends its best wishes for the success of TILLER ALPHA and looks forward to closely following its development.

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Dr. Katharina C. Cramer (née Below) studied political science in Bonn, Luxembourg and Istanbul and completed her PhD in 2018 at the University of Konstanz on the topic of A Political History of Big Science: The Other Europe. Her research interests include the history and politics of research infrastructures in the 20th and 21st centuries, the role of knowledge, innovation and technology in global contexts, and feminist theories of international relations and the history of science. Katharina Cramer is co-editor of the edited volume Big Science and Research Infrastructures in Europe (Edward Elgar) and has published in renowned journals. She is co-founder of the BSRI Network - Network for Big Science and Research Infrastructures.

Nicolas Rüffin is a research associate at CASSIS in the project “ReMade@ARI - REcyclable MAterials DEvelopment at Analytical Research Infrastructures”. He studied Business Psychology (B.Sc.) at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and Science Studies (M.A.) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He worked as a program manager at the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft and as a research assistant at the Social Science Research Center Berlin.

Since 2018, Nicolas Rüffin has been doing his doctorate at the International Center for Higher Education Research (INCHER) at the University of Kassel on patterns of international science policy in large research organizations. From 2019 to 2022, he was a scholarship holder in the doctoral program of the sdw - Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft.