1. Scientific DataManagement for biodiversity (and other) data
Birgitta König-Ries

2. Personal Background
Diploma in Computer Science from Karlsruhe University
PhD in Computer Science (more precisely: Information Integration) also from Karlsruhe
Postdoc in the US (U of Louisiana at Lafayette and Florida Intl. U)
Since 2004 Professor for Distributed Information Systems in Jena
Since 2011: focus on scientific data management

3. Research Areas/Interests
Research Data Management
Development of the BExIS 2 data management platform for research data
Semantic techniques for
Data annotation
Data discovery
Data integration
Personalisation/Recommendation

4. Links to „Computer Science meets Ecology“
Most of our work is on Biodiversity Data