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
• 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