Simon Wörpel is an independent investigative data journalist, researcher and leak librarian. He specializes in documents processing, data engineering and data analysis for journalistic investigations. Simon works for different non-profit organizations, newspapers and media outlets in germany. There he advises and implements software tools for research teams to enable data mining, documents processing and data analysis to enable data-driven investigative journalism.

From 2015 to 2019 he worked as a data journalist and newsroom developer at the german non-profit investigative newsroom CORRECTIV. There he built document databases and security infrastructure for collaborative cross-border investigations like “The CumEx Files” and “Grand Theft Europe”. Both of these projects involved dealing with highly sensitive material and orchestrating secure communication and data sharing between dozens of journalists from different countries.

Simon originally attended journalism school and studied economics and politics in cologne, germany.