I am a researcher, data scientist, and lecturer working at the Data Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology. I hold a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science degree, as well as 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 (NFDI-4Ing) consortium, which is part of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), and FAIR Data Spaces (FAIR-DS). As part of this work, my research addresses the development of the Open Research Knowledge Graph for application to engineering sciences. I focus on producing, curating, and reusing FAIR scientific knowledge to improve the availability, discoverability, and accessibility of methodological knowledge and information for humans and machines.
I am a member of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI), the Fachgruppe Requirements Engineering (RE) spokesperson, and a regular reviewer and member of various program and organizing committees of conferences and journals.
Before joining TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, I was a research assistant 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 60 national and international publications on diverse topics such as requirements engineering, empirical software engineering, social software engineering, machine learning, natural language processing, research knowledge graphs, and FAIR scientific data.
- 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
- Project manager on the part of TIB in the BMBF project FAIR Data Spaces (FAIR-DS)
- Project member in the project Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG)
- Project member in the project National Research Data Infrastructure for Engineering Science, Task Area ELLEN (NFDI4Ing, TA ELLEN)
- Co-supervision of PhD theses
- Supervision of theses in the bachelor and master programs in computer science
- Lecturer at Leibniz Universität 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
- Member: 10/2019 – present
- Deputy Spokesperson: 10/2019 – 07/2022