Present
- Teamleader and workpackage leader in the European project p-medicine (From Data Sharing and Integration via VPH models to Personalized Medicine)
- Co-development of ObTiMA, an ontology-based application for the management of clinical trials
- Collaboration in further European projects:
- TUMOR (Transatlantic Tumour Model Repositories)
- CONTRACT (Consent in a Trial and Care Environment)
- ContraCancrum (Clinically Oriented Translational Cancer Multilevel Modelling) (completed)
- Research in medical informatics (more precisely, the application of ontological methods and principles in the representation and the management of biomedical information and data)
- Member of the W3C Healthcare and Life Sciences Interest Group (for DERI)
- Program committee member i.a. at Bio-Ontologies 2009/2010 and i-semantics 2009/2010/2011/2012, OWLED 2012, reviewer for MIE 2008/2009/2012, VPH 2012 and BioMed Central
Past
- Co-development of several ontologies and software applications applying them:
- at IFOMIS:
- an ontology for clinical trials on nephroblastoma and breast cancer (ACGT project)
- the top-level Basic Formal Ontology (BFO)
- at IMBI:
- an ontology for the research on cerebral aneurysms (@neurIST project)
- the BioTop biology top-domain ontology
- at IFOMIS:
- Collaboration with the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR) on various aspects of SNOMED CT
- Sindice (DERI) - Semantic Web search engine
- at Xtramind Technologies
- Infoxtract - information extraction system
- Informationminder - information management system with corresponding agent system AgIR (Agent for Information Retrieval)
- XtraGen - system for the generation of natural language using XML- and Java-technologies
- CaRE (Crawl and Retrieval Engine) - web crawler as basis for AgIR
- mietta2 - Multilingual Information Environment for Travel and Tourism Applications (follow-up project of mietta)
- LinGO (CSLI Stanford) - Linguistic Grammars Online
- mietta (DFKI) - Multilingual Information Environment for Travel and Tourism Applications
- negra corpus (Computational Linguistics - Saarland University) - syntactically annotated corpus of german newspaper texts


