Sebastian Karcher is the Associate Director of the Qualitative Data Repository at Syracuse University. He works on all aspects of the repository, but he is particularly interested in qualitative data management and the development of scholarly workflows.  Sebastian holds a PhD in political science from Northwestern, where his substantive interests center around the political economy of business/labor relations in the Industrialized world as well as issues of conceptualization and measurement in political economy.

As time permits, Sebastian is an active contributor to several scholarly open source software projects, including in particular Zotero, where he help oversee the site translators, and the Citation Style Language, where he am on the board and co-maintain the style repository.