Profile

I am a senior researcher at the Chair of Databases and Information Systems at RWTH Aachen University and at Fraunhofer FIT.

With over 12 years in academia and industry, I specialize in managing large-scale data, developing data management and analytics solutions, and implementing data-driven solutions to business problems. Holding a Ph.D. on "Semantics Foundations of Dataspaces" from RWTH Aachen University and hands-on industry experience, my expertise includes data management, modeling, Semantic Web technologies, software development, and knowledge graphs. As a senior researcher at RWTH Aachen University and Fraunhofer FIT, I design and build scalable solutions for integrating diverse data sources to enable AI and advanced analytics.

I studied Computer Science (B. Sc., M. Sc., Ph.D.) at the RWTH Aachen University and researched at the Institute for Information Management in Mechanical Engineering at RWTH for about two years. I joined the “Knowledge Pipelines” group at Fraunhofer FIT in December 2019 and continue in the research fields Semantic Web, Ontologies, Data/Information/Knowledge Pipelines, and Interoperability. An increased focus was achieved by joining FIT’s Data Science and AI department in January 2021, becoming deputy team lead in February 2022.

Applications include the production and mobility sector, but are not limited to these. Project highlights include the Cluster of Excellence “Internet of Production”, the Fraunhofer lighthouse project EVOLOPRO, the National Research Data Infrastructure, the International Data Spaces, and the European federated and secure data infrastructure Gaia-X. As a senior researcher, I am working and publishing together with Stefan Decker in the area of Semantic Web, FAIR data principles, and dataspaces.

Memberships include the Gesellschaft für Informatik, the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC), the IEEE Computer Society, and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Awards include multiple best paper and best student paper awards at international conferences and the Young Researcher Award 2022 for my interdisciplinary research with Moritz Kröger on LISSU honored by Cluster of Excellence “Internet of Production”.