Connecting Data, People and Ideas since 2016.
31 May 2021

Prof. Dr. Sören Auer

 

Director TIB

 

Head of research group Data Science and Digital Libraries

 

 

 

Head of research group Data Science and Digital Libraries.

 

Following stations at the universities of Dresden, Ekaterinburg, Leipzig, Pennsylvania, Bonn and the Fraunhofer Society, Prof. Auer was appointed Professor of Data Science and Digital Libraries at Leibniz Universität Hannover and Director of the TIB in 2017. Prof. Auer has made important contributions to semantic technologies, knowledge engineering and information systems. He is the author (resp. co-author) of over 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications. He has received several awards, including an ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council, a SWSA ten-year award, the ESWC 7-year Best Paper Award, and the OpenCourseware Innovation Award.

 

He has led several large collaborative research projects, such as the EU H2020 flagship project BigDataEurope. He is co-founder of high potential research and community projects such as the Wikipedia semantification project DBpedia, the OpenCourseWare authoring platform SlideWiki.org and the innovative technology start-up eccenca.com. Prof. Auer was founding director of the Big Data Value Association, led the semantic data representation in the Industrial/International Data Space, is an expert for industry, European Commission, W3C and member of the advisory board of the Open Knowledge Foundation.

 

 

 

Presentations

 

 

* Facilitating COVID-19 Research, Connecting the Dots with Graph Analytics & Knowledge Graphs Online Meetup 2020 *

 

Facilitating COVID-19 research using Graph Analytics and Knowledge Graphs.

 

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