I am the Head of Curation & Community Building for Program Area D – Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG) at TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology. In this role, I work as a researcher and data scientist at TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, as well as a lecturer at Leibniz Universität Hannover. I hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Leibniz Universität Hannover. Furthermore, I am involved in the research projects Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG), National Research Data Infrastructure for Engineering Sciences (NFDI4ING) consortium, National Research Data Infrastructure for Interdisciplinary Energy System Research (NFDI4Energy) consortium, both of which are part of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), find.software: Foundations for INterdisciplinary Discovery of (Research) Software, CRC/TRR 298 SIIRI – Safety-Integrated and Infection-Reactive Implants, and SciD-QuESt – From Scientific Documents to Knowledge – Questionnaire-Based Extraction and Structuring.
As part of this work, my research focuses on the development of the ORKG and its application in diverse disciplines, such as computer science, engineering sciences, energy system research, and medicine. I focus on the human-centered, neuro-symbolic knowledge organization to improve the availability, discoverability, and accessibility of FAIR scientific data, information, and knowledge for humans and machines.
I am a member of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI), and a regular reviewer and member of various program committees and organizing committees of workshops, conferences, and journals.
Before joining TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, I was a research associate and Ph.D. student at the Software Engineering Group at Leibniz Universität Hannover. I worked as project leader of the DFG research project ViViReq and researched the integration of videos as a complementary communication medium in requirements engineering. My research focused on supporting requirements communication between stakeholders and the development team to foster the development of a shared understanding of the project vision of the system under development among all project partners involved.
I have published my research in over 85 national and international publications on diverse topics, including requirements engineering, empirical software engineering, social software engineering, machine learning, natural language processing, research knowledge graphs, neuro-symbolic AI, and FAIR scientific data, information, and knowledge.
- Doktor rerum naturalium (Dr. rer. nat.)
- Thesis title: Supporting Requirements Communication for Shared Understanding by Applying Vision Videos in Requirements Engineering
- Course of studies: Computer science
- Main research topics: Requirements engineering, empirical software engineering, human-computer interaction, user experience
- Thesis title: Tool-Supported Analysis of Requirements Workshop Videos
- Course of studies: Computer science
- Areas of expertise: Human-computer interaction, software engineering, theoretical computer science
- Minor subject: Business Administration
- Thesis title: Supporting User Story Management with a Mobile Application
- Course of studies: Computer science
- Areas of expertise: Basics of computer science, mathematical basics, electrotechnical basics, selected areas of computer science
- Minor subject: Business Administration
- Beginning of bachelor’s degree program, which was continued after a transfer to Leibniz Universität Hannover
- Course of studies: Computer science
- Areas of expertise: Basics of computer science, mathematical basics, electrotechnical basics, selected areas of computer science
- Minor subject: Business Administration
As Head of Curation & Community Building for Program Area D – Open Research Knowledge Graph, I lead a team that designs and implements strategies to identify and engage diverse scholarly communities and to integrate their research contributions into the Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG). The team advances the compatibility of human‑ and machine‑actionable knowledge, develops human-centered, neuro-symbolic curation approaches for FAIR and high‑quality content across heterogeneous data sources and disciplines, and maintains active dialogue with scientific stakeholders to improve the ORKG continuously.
- Principal investigator in the DFG project CRC/TRR 298 SIIRI – Safety-Integrated and Infection-Reactive Implants
- Principal investigator in the NFDIxCS Flexfund project SciD-QuESt: From Scientific Documents to Knowledge – Questionnaire-Based Extraction and Structuring of Knowledge
- Principal investigator in the DFG project find.software: Foundations for INterdisciplinary Discovery of (Research) Software
- Project member in the project Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG)
- Project member in the DFG project National Research Data Infrastructure for Engineering Science (NFDI4ING)
- Project member in the DFG project National Research Data Infrastructure for Energy System Research (NFDI4Energy)
- Co-supervision of PhD theses
- Supervisor and examiner of theses in the bachelor and master programs in computer science
- Lecturer at Leibniz University Hannover
- Project member in the project Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG)
- Project member in the DFG project National Research Data Infrastructure for Engineering Science (NFDI4ING)
- Project member in the DFG project National Research Data Infrastructure for Energy System Research (NFDI4Energy)
- Project manager on the part of TIB in the BMBF project FAIR Data Spaces (FAIR-DS)
- Co-supervision of PhD theses
- Supervisor and examiner of theses in the bachelor and master programs in computer science
- Lecturer at Leibniz University Hannover
- Project manager in the DFG project Assessing the Potential of Interactive Vision Videos for Requirements Engineering (ViViReq)
- Supervision of theses in the bachelor and master programs in computer science
- Research and teaching
- Tutor for software engineering, software quality, and software project
- Research assistant
- Spokesperson: 07/2022 – 11/2025
- Deputy Spokesperson: 10/2019 – 07/2022