Former head of the chair Information Systems & Software Technology and leader of the research group Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web. Director of academic studies at Leipzig School of Media for the master studies Content- and Media-Engineering.

Biographical sketch.

Contact

Jabber: soerenauer@jabber.ccc.de Skype: soerenauer Email: soeren.auer@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de

Research Interests

• Information Systems, Database and XML technologies
• Software engineering, open-source software, scripting languages and adaptive methodologies and tools (Wikis, eXtreme Programming): SemanticScripting.org
• 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)
• 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