Sören Auer

vCardSören Auer
Field:	Semantic Web
Position:	Professor(Prof. Dr.)
auer@cs.uni-bonn.de
Affiliation:	Enterprise Information Systems (EIS)
Homepage:	eis.iai.uni-bonn.de/SoerenAuer.html
Phone:	+49 (1578) 4988949
Dissertation:	Towards Agile Knowledge Engineering - Methodology, Concepts and Tools (2006, Klaus-Peter Fähnrich, Universität Leipzig)
PC member of: IWILDS 2020, ICSC 2020, BIS 2019, ICWE 2019, ICSC 2019, ICSC 2018, BIS 2018, ICWE 2011, ICKE 2009, Xinnovations 2008 PhD Workshop
OC member of: VBIB 2020, BIS 2019, DILS 2018, LDOW 2016, SKIL 2012, ICWE 2011, SFSW 09, WS: Semantic Web MuC 2008
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This person attended ESWC 2005, ESWC 2007,ISWC 2004, ISWC 2005, ISWC 2006, ISWC 2007.

Prof. Sören Auer studied Mathematics and Computer Science in Dresden, Hagen and Yekaterinburg (Russia). Before pursuing a scientific career Sören was managing director of adVIS GmbH, a Dresden-based Internet and IT service provider until 2003. In 2006 he obtained his doctorate in Computer Science from Universität Leipzig. From 2006-2008 he worked with the database research group at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. In 2008 he founded AKSW research group at University of Leipzig, which he led till 2013. Currently, he holds the chair for Enterprise Information Systems at University of Bonn and leads a department at Fraunhofer Institute for Analysis and Information Systems (IAIS). Sören has made substantial contributions to semantic web technologies, knowledge engineering, software engineering, usability, as well as databases and information systems. Sören is author (respectively co-author) of over 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications, which attracted more than 9.000 citations and result in an H-index of 41. He received several awards, such as the ESWC 7-year best paper award or the OpenCourseware Innovation award. He led / is leading several large-scale collaborative research projects such as the European Union’s FP7-ICT flagship project LOD2 comprising 15 partners from 11 countries. Sören is co-founder of several high-impact research and community projects such as the Wikipedia semantification project DBpedia, the OpenCourseWare authoring platform SlideWiki.org or the spatial data integration platform LinkedGeoData. The technology Sören develops with his team fuels many industrial applications. He is organiser, programme or track co-chair of renowned conferences and workshops, including OKCON 2010, ESWC 2010, ICWE 2011, WWW 2012, European Data Forum, editor-in-chief of the International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, area editor of the Semantic Web Journal. He serves as an expert for industry, the European Commission, the W3C and board member of the Open Knowledge Foundation.