Operational coordination, maintenance, and strategic development of the Central Data Hub (CDH) as the cluster’s central data infrastructure, Implementation and continuous improvement of FAIR-compliant research data management concepts in close collaboration with participating research projects, Consultation and support for researchers with respect to data organization, metadata annotation, documentation, and data publication, Coordination and quality assurance of data flows between experimental projects, the Plant Perturbation Atlas (PPA), and external repositories, Development, maintenance, and documentation of standards, workflows, SOPs, and metadata schemas, Acting as an interface between researchers, university IT infrastructure (e.g. ZDV), NFDI initiatives (in particular DataPLANT), and cluster coordination, Contribution to training activities, advisory services, and quality assurance measures in the area of research data management