Google Scholar profile shows over 24,000 citations and an h-index of 75; W3C DCAT recommendation was created by his PhD student Fadi Maali; Drafted the Irish Government's Open Data Strategy and provided the alpha version of Ireland's Open Data Portal.
Research Experience
Currently a professor at RWTH Aachen and Director of Fraunhofer FIT; Formerly Director of Digital Enterprise Research Institute at NUI Galway; Assistant Professor at ISI, USC; PostDoc and Research Associate at Stanford University's Computer Science Department; PhD Student and Junior Researcher at AIFB, KIT Karlsruhe.
Education
Doctor (Dr. rer-pol.), Diploma in Informatics (Dipl.-Inform.), Chartered Engineer (CEng FIEI), Member of the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA).
Background
Main research field is the Semantic Web. Currently a professor at RWTH Aachen University and Director of Fraunhofer FIT. Previously worked at NUI Galway, ISI, Stanford University, and KIT Karlsruhe.
Miscellany
Interests include continuing the work of Douglas Engelbart and promoting technologies such as data spaces and generative AI.