Organizing committee

Dr. Leyla Jael Castro, ZB MED Information Centre for Life Sciences

Semantic retrieval team leader at ZB MED Information Centre for Life Sciences in Cologne, Germany. She is a Computer Scientist currently working on Life Sciences research related to semantic web, linked data, ontologies, and data science. She has participated in initiatives related to FAIRness for research software and recommendations for research open software.

Dr. Sonja Schimmler, Fraunhofer FOKUS.

Dr. Sonja Schimmler is research group lead at Fraunhofer FOKUS. She is also an associated researcher at Technical University of Berlin. In her research, she focuses on the digitalisation and opening up of science and puts a special emphasis on research data infrastructures. Her research interests range from semantic web and linked data over data science and artificial intelligence to software engineering and human-centered computing.

Stian Soiland-Reyes, University of Manchester.

Stian is a Senior Lecturer and co-leader of the eScience Lab in the Department of Computer Science of the University of Manchester. His research interests are on reproducibility, provenance and metadata to improve FAIR sharing of open research data and computational workflows, within ELIXIR Europe, European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) projects including EuroScienceGateway, FAIR-IMPACT, EOSC-ENTRUST and the workflow repository WorkflowHub.eu, as well as building FAIR approaches for high-performance compute (HPC) environments and for federated analytics in Trusted Research Environments for health data.

Prof. Dr. Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, ZB MED Information Centre for Life Sciences, Univeristy Of Cologne

Scientific director at ZB MED Information Centre for Life Sciences, Cologne, Germany. Prof. D. Rebholz-Schuhmann is a medical doctor and a computer scientist. Until recently, he has been the director of the Insight Center for Data Analytics in Galway (the former DERI institute). His research is positioned in semantic technologies in the biomedical domain. In his previous research he has established large-scale on-the-fly biomedical text mining solutions and has contributed to the semantic normalization in the biomedical domain.