Dr. Christian Hänger has been working at Mannheim University Library since 2003 and is head of the IT group. With an academic background in Classics he started his library career at Bielefeld University Library.

He was involved in the implementation and configuration of the Resource Discovery Management System Primo which Mannheim University Library introduced in 2008 as first customer in Germany. Currently he conducts two projects concerning digitization of ethnographic studies of the Jesuits and research data in search systems (DFG) carried out in co-operation with GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences.