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Sören Auer

Dr. rer. nat. Dipl.-Math.

Starting from Oct 2011 I'm substituting chair of Information Systems and Software Technology at Technical University of Chemnitz (However, all contact information on this page remains active).

Senior scientist and head of the research group Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web at InfAI and Business Information Systems / University of Leipzig. Director of academic studies at Leipzig School of Media for the master studies Content- and Media-Engineering.

Biographical sketch.

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Research Interests

• Knowledge Representation and Management, in particular agile, light-weight methodologies and social semantic collaboration
• Semantic Web, in particular the terminological Knowledge Representation standards RDF, RDF-Schema, OWL (W3C)
• Software engineering, open-source software, scripting languages and adaptive methodologies and tools (Wikis, eXtreme Programming): SemanticScripting.org
• Database and XML technologies
• Open, participatory research and development (see my Open Science slides and OpenResearch.org)

Activities

• Coordinator of the EU-FP7-ICT IP project LOD2 - Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data
• Founder (resp. co-founder) of a number of high-impact research and community projects, e.g.: OpenResearch.org (Semantik Wiki for collecting and sharing scientific meta-data), DBpedia.org (transforming Wikipedia into a knowledge base), Cofundos.org (idea and resource pooling for open-source development).
• Principle investigator for the funded research projects OntoWiki (EU-FP7-SME) and LE4SW (BmBF)
• Programme committee co-chair of: WWW 2012, ICWE 2011, ESWC 2012, OKCon 2010, I-Semantics 2008
• Programme committee member of conferences and workshops, e.g.: ICDE2012, WWW 2011, ISWC 2011, ESWC 2011, IEEE-ICSC 2011 (see Events)
• Director of academic master studies program “Content- and Media Engineering” at Leipzig School of Media
• W3C's RDB2RDF Working Group (invited expert)
• Open Knowledge Foundation - Protecting and Promoting Open Knowledge in a Digital Age (advisory board member)
• EU's 6th and 7th framework programs (evaluator and reviewer)
• Editorial board member of various journals (Semantic Web Journal, Journal of Web Engineering)
• Supervision of doctoral students: Sebastian Tramp, Sebastian Hellmann, Michael Martin, Jörg Unbehauen, Philipp Frischmuth, Norman Heino
• Collaboration with: Jens Lehmann (AKSW MOLE), Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo (AKSW SIMBA)
• Invited speaker at: SBBD 2011, ReWeb 2011, BIS 2011, CONSEGI 2011, WIMS 2011, ISWSA 2011, ESWC 2010

Me Elsewhere

• Bibliographic databases: DBLP, Microsoft Academic Search, Google Scholar, Arnetminer, Academia.edu
• Social Networks: LinkedIn, XING, Facebook, Nature Network
• Content repositories: Videolectures, Slideshare, Sourceforge

Presentations