Curriculum
Research interests
Semantic modelling of biodiversity data and knowledge, ontologies, knowledge graphs, semantic interoperability, FAIR data principles, CLEAR principle, cognitive interoperability, granularity and granularity perspectives, conceptual modelling.
Current position
since 2026
Head of the Centre for Biodiversity Knowledge Science (zcb), Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB), Bonn & Hamburg, Germany
Reviews, consultancy activities, boards and memberships
- since 2024: ‘FAIR Mappings’ Working Group, Research Data Alliance (RDA)
- since 2024: Technical and Scientific Advisory Board of Connectome
- since 2023: Expert Advisory Board of EnArgus
- since 2023: Member of the Open Energy Ontology (OEO) Steering Committee
- 2023–2025: Interest Group on ‘Digital Tools and their Development, including AI’, focus area ‘Digitality in Science’, Allianz der Wissenschaftsorganisationen
- 2021–2024: Semantic Interoperability Task Force, European Open Science Cloud
- 2014–2018: Scientific Advisory Board, sub-project ‘The concept of the organism in science, art and technology as a basis for the development of an interdisciplinary conceptual system in bionics’, Transregio 141
- since 2010: Editorial Board of Bionomina – International Journal of Biological Nomenclature and Terminology, Magnolia Press; Editor for “Theories and systems of terminology, standardisation, semantic transparency, translation”
- since 2006: Reviewer for various academic journals in the fields of biology, philosophy, computer science and knowledge science; reviewer acitvities for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK
Academic qualifications
2002
PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) University of Bielefeld, Germany (Biology: Phylogenetics)
2000
Diploma Degree at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany (Biology)
Career
since 2026
Head of Centre for Biodiversity Knowledge Science (zcb), Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB), Germany
2023–2025
Head of Curation & Community Building, Open Research Knowledge Graph, TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology University Library, Hannover, Germany
2019–2022
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology University Library, Hannover, Germany
2015–2019
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Bonn (Evolutionary Biology and Zoo-Ecology), Germany
2013–2015
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Funding: DFG, own position), University of Bonn (Evolutionary Biology and Zoo-Ecology), Germany
2008–2012
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Bonn (Evolutionary Biology and Zoo-Ecology), Germany
2005–2008
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Free University Berlin (Zoology), Germany
2004–2005
Postdoctoral Research Scholar (DFG), Harvard University, USA (Invertebrate Zoology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Lab Prof. Dr. G. Giribet)
2002–2004
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Freie Universität Berlin (Zoology), Germany
2000–2002
Scientific Assistant, University of Bielefeld (Zoomorphology and Systematics of Animals), Germany