Heike Neuroth has been working as an e-Humanities consultant at the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) since February 2008. Since 2004 she has been involved in national and international activities working on the development of grid infrastructures for different disciplines, focussing on the humanities.

She holds a Ph.D. in Geology and has been working at the Goettingen State and University Library (SUB) in Germany since 1997, where she heads the department Research and Development (RDD). An expert in the field of digital curation and digital library services, she is engaged in several national and international initiatives, projects and working groups dealing with digital libraries.