- Published extensively in top conferences and prestigious journals in the areas of informetrics, information retrieval, and digital libraries.
- Main organizer of the International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR) and Scholarly Document Processing workshop series.
- General Chair of the 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2019), Programme Chair of the 22nd ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2022), and Programme Chair of the 13th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2022).
- As of January 2, 2025: 105 research contributions, 101 editorial works, 73 other types of publications, 11 datasets.
Research Experience
- Team leader (Information & Data Retrieval) at the GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences department Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences (KTS).
- Administered the W3 professorship “Scientific Information Analytics” at the University of Göttingen, Institute of Computer Science in the winter semester 2020/2021.
- Visiting professor for knowledge representation at University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt, Department of Information Science & Engineering during 2009-2011.
Education
PhD (Dr. phil.), Berlin School of Library and Information Science at Humboldt University Berlin, graduated in 2009. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Walther Umstätter and Prof. Dr. Jürgen Krause.
Background
Research interests include: interactive IR, scholarly recommendation systems, non-textual ranking, bibliometric and scientometric methods, applied informetrics, science models in digital libraries, knowledge representation, semantic technologies, user studies, information behavior.