Judith Fassbender is a researcher in the field of public interest technologies. She currently works for the Prototype Fund at the German chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation and is an associate researcher at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) in Berlin. As a PhD candidate at the School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews, she researches participatory practices in the data governance of public interest technologies. Judith brings an interdisciplinary background in the social sciences and design to her work.