Judith Junker has been a research associate at the FZI Research Centre for Information Technology in the Berlin branch office since 2017. She works in the Software Engineering research area and conducts research on the topics of Open Science (Open Access) and Open Digital Platforms. In the BMWK-funded project "Schaufenster sichere digitale Identitäten Karlsruhe" (SDIKA), she is investigating possible organisational forms and business models for an open ecosystem for digital identities.

Judith holds a Master of Arts in Political Science with an interdisciplinary specialisation in European integration and globalisation. For the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, she supervised research projects on cross-cutting topics such as social acceptance and business models as part of the accompanying research project for the technology programme "Smart Data – Innovationen aus Daten". She was also head of the PrePrint+ research project in the BMBF funding programme to accelerate the transformation to Open Access.