Tobias Kuhn

Welcome to my website. I am CEO and Founder at Knowledge Pixels (and a former academic) focussing on how we can apply semantic technologies in a user-friendly manner to radically improve the communication of knowledge.

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My Topics and Projects

• My new venture to build the ecosystem of semantic-born knowledge: Knowledge Pixels
• Small semantic packages called nanopublications can be published through a decentralized network, based on trusty URIs and the nanopub-java library
• Nanodash (code) is a web tool to browse and publish nanopublications, based on user-friendly templates
• Controlled natural languages like ACE allow for formal yet fully intuitive knowledge representation, for example in the form of the semantic wiki AceWiki
• The FAIR Principles aim to make research data machine-understandable across disciplines, for example in the social sciences through ODISSEI
• Past projects: FAIR is as FAIR does, Capture Bias, ControCurator, Attempto, MOLTO, ERGO, REWERSE

Publications

Journal Articles

• Anna-Lena Lamprecht, Magnus Palmblad, Jon Ison, ..., Tobias Kuhn, ..., Katherine Wolstencroft. Perspectives on automated composition of workflows in the life sciences. F1000Research 10, 2021.
• Tobias Kuhn, Ruben Taelman, Vincent Emonet, Haris Antonatos, Stian Soiland-Reyes, Michel Dumontier. Semantic Micro-Contributions with Decentralized Nanopublication Services. PeerJ Computer Science 7:e387. 2021.
• Remzi Celebi​​, Joao Rebelo Moreira​​, Ahmed A. Hassan, Sandeep Ayyar, Lars Ridder, Tobias Kuhn, Michel Dumontier. Towards FAIR protocols and workflows: the OpenPREDICT use case. PeerJ Computer Science 6:e281. 2020.
• Hana Pergl Sustkova, Kristina Maria Hettne, Peter Wittenburg, Annika Jacobsen, Tobias Kuhn, Robert Pergl, Jan Slifka, Peter McQuilton, Barbara Magagna, Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Markus Stocker, Melanie Imming, Larry Lannom, Mark Musen, Erik Schultes. FAIR convergence matrix: Optimizing the reuse of existing FAIR-related resources. Data Intelligence 2 (1/2), 2020.
• Annika Jacobsen, Ricardo de Miranda Azevedo, Nick Juty, Dominique Batista, Simon Coles, Ronald Cornet, Mélanie Courtot, Mercè Crosas, Michel Dumontier, Chris T Evelo, Carole Goble, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Karsten Kryger Hansen, Ali Hasnain, Kristina Hettne, Jaap Heringa, Rob WW Hooft, Melanie Imming, Keith G Jeffery, Rajaram Kaliyaperumal, Martijn G Kersloot, Christine R Kirkpatrick, Tobias Kuhn, Ignasi Labastida, Barbara Magagna, Peter McQuilton, Natalie Meyers, Annalisa Montesanti, Mirjam van Reisen, Philippe Rocca-Serra, Robert Pergl, Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, Juliane Schneider, George Strawn, Mark Thompson, Andra Waagmeester, Tobias Weigel, Mark D Wilkinson, Egon L Willighagen, Peter Wittenburg, Marco Roos, Barend Mons, Erik Schultes. FAIR principles: Interpretations and implementation considerations. Data Intelligence 2 (1/2), 2020.
• Mark D Wilkinson, Michel Dumontier, Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, Mario Prieto, Dominique Batista, Peter McQuilton, Tobias Kuhn, Philippe Rocca-Serra, Mercѐ Crosas, Erik Schultes. Evaluating FAIR maturity through a scalable, automated, community-governed framework. Scientific Data 6 (174), 2019.
• Niels Dekker, Tobias Kuhn, and Marieke van Erp. Evaluating named entity recognition tools for extracting social networks from novels. PeerJ Computer Science 5:e189, 2019.
• Tobias Kuhn and Michel Dumontier. Genuine semantic publishing. Data Science, 1(1-2), 2017. index PDF
• Tobias Kuhn​, Christine Chichester, Michael Krauthammer, Núria Queralt-Rosinach, Ruben Verborgh, George Giannakopoulos, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Raffaele Viglianti, Michel Dumontier. Decentralized provenance-aware publishing with nanopublications. PeerJ Computer Science, 2:e78, 2016. PDF
• Mark D Wilkinson, Michel Dumontier, IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg, Gabrielle Appleton, Myles Axton, Arie Baak, Niklas Blomberg, Jan-Willem Boiten, Luiz Bonino da Silva Santos, Philip E. Bourne, Jildau Bouwman, Anthony J. Brookes, Tim Clark, Mercè Crosas, Ingrid Dillo, Olivier Dumon, Scott Edmunds, Chris T. Evelo, Richard Finkers, Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran, Alasdair J.G. Gray, Paul Groth, Carole Goble, Jeffrey S. Grethe, Jaap Heringa, Peter A.C. 't Hoen, Rob Hooft, Tobias Kuhn, Ruben Kok, Joost Kok, Scott J. Lusher, Maryann E. Martone, Albert Mons, Abel L. Packer, Bengt Persson, Philippe Rocca-Serra, Marco Roos, Rene van Schaik, Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Erik Schultes, Thierry Sengstag, Ted Slater, George Strawn, Morris A. Swertz, Mark Thompson, Johan van der Lei, Erik van Mulligen, Jan Velterop, Andra Waagmeester, Peter Wittenburg, Katherine Wolstencroft, Jun Zhao, Barend Mons. The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship. Scientific Data, 3:16001, 2016. PDF
• Kurt Winkler and Tobias Kuhn. Fully automatic multi-language translation with a catalogue of phrases - successful employment for the Swiss avalanche bulletin. Language Resources and Evaluation, 2016. PDF
• Núria Queral-Rosinach, Tobias Kuhn, Christine Chichester, Michel Dumontier, Ferran Sanz, and Laura I. Furlong. Publishing DisGeNET as Nanopublications. Semantic Web, 7(5), 2016. PDF
• Tobias Kuhn and Michel Dumontier. Making Digital Artifacts on the Web Verifiable and Reliable. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 27(9), 2015. PDF
• Kaarel Kaljurand, Tobias Kuhn, and Laura Canedo. Collaborative multilingual knowledge management based on controlled natural language. Semantic Web, 6(3), 2015. PDF
• Tobias Kuhn, Matjaz Perc, and Dirk Helbing. Inheritance patterns in citation networks reveal scientific memes. Physical Review X, 4, 041036, 21 November 2014. PDF
• Tobias Kuhn, Mate Levente Nagy, ThaiBinh Luong, and Michael Krauthammer. Mining Images in Biomedical Publications: Detection and Analysis of Gel Diagrams. Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 5:10, 2014. PDF
• Tobias Kuhn and Alexandre Bergel. Verifiable Source Code Documentation in Controlled Natural Language. Science of Computer Programming, 96(1), 2014. PDF
• Tobias Kuhn. A Survey and Classification of Controlled Natural Languages. Computational Linguistics, 40(1), 2014. PDF
• Tobias Kuhn. A Principled Approach to Grammars for Controlled Natural Languages and Predictive Editors. Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 22(1), 2013. PDF
• Tobias Kuhn. The Understandability of OWL Statements in Controlled English. Semantic Web, 4(1), 2013. PDF
• Tobias Kuhn and Stefan Höfler. Coral: Corpus Access in Controlled Language. Corpora, 7(2), 2012. PDF

Papers at International Conferences and Workshops

• Cristina-Iulia Bucur, Tobias Kuhn, Davide Ceolin, Jacco van Ossenbruggen. Expressing high-level scientific claims with formal semantics. In K-CAP '21: Proceedings of the 11th on Knowledge Capture Conference. ACM, 2021. (Acceptance rate: 25%)
• Robin A Richardson, Remzi Celebi, Sven Van Der Burg, Djura Smits, Lars Ridder, Michel Dumontier, Tobias Kuhn. User-friendly Composition of FAIR Workflows in a Notebook Environment. In K-CAP '21: Proceedings of the 11th on Knowledge Capture Conference. ACM, 2021. (Acceptance rate: 25%)
• Michel Wijkstra, Timo Lek, Tobias Kuhn, Kasper Welbers, Mickey Steijaert. Living Literature Reviews. In K-CAP '21: Proceedings of the 11th on Knowledge Capture Conference. ACM, 2021. (Acceptance rate: 25%)
• Erik Schultes, Barbara Magagna, Kristina Maria Hettne, Robert Pergl, Marek Suchánek, and Tobias Kuhn. Reusable FAIR Implementation Profiles as Accelerators of FAIR Convergence. In Proceedings of International Conference on Conceptual Modeling. Springer, 2020.
• Timo Let, Anna de Groot, Tobias Kuhn, Roser Morante. Provenance for Linguistic Corpora through Nanopublications. In Proceedings of the 14th Linguistic Annotation Workshop. 2020.
• Cristina-Iulia Bucur, Tobias Kuhn, Davide Ceolin. A Unified Nanopublication Model for Effective and User-Friendly Access to the Elements of Scientific Publishing. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW). 2020. (Acceptance rate: 17%)
• Erika Fabris, Tobias Kuhn, Gianmaria Silvello. Nanocitation: Complete and Interoperable Citations of Nanopublications. Springer 2020. In Proceedings of the Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, 2020.
• Pasquale Lisena, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Tobias Kuhn, Raphaël Troncy. Easy Web API Development with SPARQL Transformer. In Proceedings of The 18th International Semantic Web Conference. Springer, 2019.
• Cristina-Iulia Bucur, Tobias Kuhn, Davide Ceolin. Peer Reviewing Revisited: Assessing Research with Interlinked Semantic Comments. In K-CAP '19: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Knowledge Capture. 2019.
• Erika Fabris, Tobias Kuhn, Gianmaria Silvello. A Framework for Citing Nanopublications. In Proceedings of TPDL 2019: 23rd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. 2019.
• Tobias Kuhn, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Alexander Malic, Jorrit H Poelen, Allen H Hurlbert, Emilio Centeno Ortiz, Laura I Furlong, Núria Queralt-Rosinach, Christine Chichester, Juan M Banda, Egon Willighagen, Friederike Ehrhart, Chris Evelo, Tareq B Malas, Michel Dumontier. Nanopublications: A Growing Resource of Provenance-Centric Scientific Linked Data. In Proceedings of IEEE eScience 2018. (Acceptance rate: 34%)
• Tobias Kuhn. Using the AIDA Language to Formally Organize Scientific Claims. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2018). IOS Press, 2018.
• Tobias Kuhn, Egon Willighagen, Chris Evelo, Núria Queralt-Rosinach, Emilio Centeno, Laura I Furlong. Reliable Granular References to Changing Linked Data. In Proceedings of the 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017). Springer, 2017. PDF
• Benjamin Timmermans, Tobias Kuhn, Kaspar Beelen, Lora Aroyo. Computational Controversy. In Proceedings of th 9th International Conference on Social Informatics (Socinfo2017). Springer, 2017. PDF
• Tom Jansen and Tobias Kuhn. Extracting Core Claims from Scientific Articles. In Proceedings of the 28th Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2016). Springer, 2017. PDF
• Krishna Mangaladevi, Wouter Beek, Tobias Kuhn. Understanding Knowledge Networks. In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Linked Data for Information Extraction (LD4IE 2017). CEUR-WS, 2017. PDF
• Niels Ockeloen, Victor de Boer, Tobias Kuhn, and Guus Schreiber. Data 2 Documents: Modular and Distributive Content Management in RDF. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2016). (Acceptance rate: 30%) Best paper award. Springer, 2016.
• Tobias Kuhn. The Controlled Natural Language of Randall Munroe's Thing Explainer. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2016). Springer, 2016. PDF
• Tobias Kuhn. nanopub-java: A Java Library for Nanopublications. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Linked Science (LISC 2015). 2015. PDF
• Juan M. Banda, Tobias Kuhn, Nigam H. Shah, Michel Dumontier. Provenance-Centered Dataset of Drug-Drug Interactions. In Proceedings of the 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) (Data Sets and Ontologies track). (Acceptance rate: 23%) Springer, 2015. PDF
• Tobias Kuhn, Christine Chichester, Michel Dumontier, and Michael Krauthammer. Publishing without Publishers: a Decentralized Approach to Dissemination, Retrieval, and Archiving of Data. In Proceedings of the 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC). (Acceptance rate: 22%) Springer, 2015. PDF
• Tobias Kuhn. Science Bots: A Model for the Future of Scientific Computation? In Proceedings of Semantics, Analytics, Visualisation: Enhancing Scholarly Data (SAVE-SD 2015), WWW 2015 Companion Proceedings. Best RASH paper award. ACM, 2015. PDF
• Kurt Winkler, Tobias Kuhn, and Martin Volk. Evaluating the fully automatic multi-language translation of the Swiss avalanche bulletin. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2014). Springer, 2014. PDF
• Tobias Kuhn and Michel Dumontier. Trusty URIs: Verifiable, Immutable, and Permanent Digital Artifacts for Linked Data. In Proceedings of the 11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC). (Acceptance rate: 23%) Best research paper award. Springer, 2014. PDF
• Tobias Kuhn, Paolo Emilio Barbano, Mate Levente Nagy, and Michael Krauthammer. Broadening the Scope of Nanopublications. In Proceedings of the 10th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC). (Acceptance rate: 26%) Springer, 2013. PDF
• Kaarel Kaljurand and Tobias Kuhn. A Multilingual Semantic Wiki Based on Attempto Controlled English and Grammatical Framework. In Proceedings of the 10th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC). (Acceptance rate: 26%) Springer, 2013. PDF
• Tobias Kuhn and Michael Krauthammer. Underspecified Scientific Claims in Nanopublications. In Proceedings of the Workshop on the Web of Linked Entities (WoLE). (Acceptance rate: 50%) CEUR-WS, 2012. PDF
• Tobias Kuhn and Michael Krauthammer. Image Mining from Gel Diagrams in Biomedical Publications. In Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine (SMBM). 2012. PDF
• Tobias Kuhn, ThaiBinh Luong, and Michael Krauthammer. Finding and Accessing Diagrams in Biomedical Publications. In Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2012 Annual Symposium. 2012. PDF
• Tobias Kuhn. Codeco: A Practical Notation for Controlled English Grammars in Predictive Editors. In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2010). Springer, 2012. PDF
• Tobias Kuhn. Codeco: A Grammar Notation for Controlled Natural Language in Predictive Editors. In Pre-Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2010). CEUR-WS, 2010. PDF
• Tobias Kuhn. An Evaluation Framework for Controlled Natural Languages. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2009). Springer, 2010. PDF
• Richard N. Shiffman, George Michel, Michael Krauthammer, Norbert E. Fuchs, Kaarel Kaljurand, and Tobias Kuhn. Writing Clinical Practice Guidelines in Controlled Natural Language. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2009). Springer, 2010. PDF
• Tobias Kuhn. How Controlled English Can Improve Semantic Wikis. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Semantic Wikis, European Semantic Web Conference 2009. Best paper award. CEUR-WS, 2009. PDF
• Richard Shiffman, George Michel, Michael Krauthammer, Norbert E. Fuchs, Kaarel Kaljurand, and Tobias Kuhn. Controlled Natural Language for Clinical Practice Guidelines. In Pre-Proceedings of the Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2009). CEUR-WS, 2009. PDF
• Tobias Kuhn. How to Evaluate Controlled Natural Languages. In Pre-Proceedings of the Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2009). CEUR-WS, 2009. PDF
• Tobias Kuhn and Rolf Schwitter. Writing Support for Controlled Natural Languages. In Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA) Workshop 2008. PDF
• Tobias Kuhn. AceWiki: Collaborative Ontology Management in Controlled Natural Language. In Proceedings of the 3rd Semantic Wiki Workshop. CEUR-WS, 2008. PDF
• Tobias Kuhn. AceWiki: A Natural and Expressive Semantic Wiki. In Proceedings of Semantic Web User Interaction at CHI 2008: Exploring HCI Challenges. CEUR-WS, 2009. PDF
• Gerold Schneider, Kaarel Kaljurand, Fabio Rinaldi, and Tobias Kuhn. Pro3Gres Parser in the CoNLL Domain Adaptation Shared Task. In Proceedings of the CoNLL Shared Task Session of EMNLP-CoNLL 2007. PDF
• Tobias Kuhn. AceRules: Executing Rules in Controlled Natural Language. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR2007). (Acceptance rate: 48%) Springer, 2007. PDF
• Tobias Kuhn, Loic Royer, Norbert E. Fuchs, and Michael Schroeder. Improving Text Mining with Controlled Natural Language: A Case Study for Protein Interactions. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences 2006 (DILS'06). (Acceptance rate: 39%) Springer, 2006. PDF

Edited Proceedings

• Tobias Kuhn, Silvie Spreeuwenberg, Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, Norbert E. Fuchs. Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2020/21). ACL Anthology, 2021.
• Ruben Verborgh, Tobias Kuhn, Tim Berners-Lee. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Decentralizing the Semantic Web. CEUR-WS, 2018.
• Daniel Garijo, Natalia Villanueva Rosales, Tobias Kuhn, Tomi Kauppinen, Michel Dumontier. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Enabling Open Semantic Science. CEUR-WS, 2018.
• Ruben Verborgh, Tobias Kuhn, Andrei Sambra. Proceedings of the Workshop on Decentralizing the Semantic Web 2017. CEUR-WS, 2017.
• Daniel Garijo, Willem Robert van Hage, Tomi Kauppinen, Tobias Kuhn, Jun Zhao. Proceedings of the First Workshop on Enabling Open Semantic Science. CEUR-WS, 2017.
• Brian Davis, Kaarel Kaljurand, and Tobias Kuhn (editors). Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2014), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8625. Springer, 2014.
• Tobias Kuhn and Norbert E. Fuchs (editors). Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2012), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7427. Springer, 2012.

Book Chapters

• Norbert E. Fuchs, Kaarel Kaljurand, and Tobias Kuhn. ACE can be described by itself. In Searching Answers — Festschrift in Honour of Michael Hess on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday. Monsenstein und Vannerdat, 2009. PDF
• Juri Luca De Coi, Norbert E. Fuchs, Kaarel Kaljurand, and Tobias Kuhn. Controlled English for Reasoning on the Semantic Web. In Semantic Techniques for the Web — The REWERSE Perspective. Springer, 2009. PDF
• Norbert E. Fuchs, Kaarel Kaljurand, and Tobias Kuhn. Attempto Controlled English for Knowledge Representation. In Reasoning Web, Fourth International Summer School 2008. Springer, 2008. PDF

Consensus Statements and Editorials

• Tobias Kuhn and Michel Dumontier. Data Science – Methods, infrastructure, and applications (editorial). Data Science, 1(1-2), 2017. PDF
• Adam Wyner, Krasimir Angelov, Guntis Barzdins, Danica Damljanovic, Brian Davis, Norbert Fuchs, Stefan Hoefler, Ken Jones, Kaarel Kaljurand, Tobias Kuhn, Martin Luts, Jonathan Pool, Mike Rosner, Rolf Schwitter, and John Sowa. On Controlled Natural Languages: Properties and Prospects. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2009). Springer, 2010. PDF

Reviewed Posters and Demos

• Tobias Kuhn. Publishing without Publishers: A Decentralized Server Network for Scientific Data. In Poster Session at FORCE 2015. Poster
• Tobias Kuhn and Michael Krauthammer. Representing Biomedical Claims with Underspecified Statements in Nanopublications. In Poster Session of the 11th International Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB'12). Poster
• Tobias Kuhn and Michael Krauthammer. Image Retrieval in Controlled English. In Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (CSHALS 2012). Poster
• Tobias Kuhn. AceWiki: A Semantic Wiki Using Controlled English. In Proceedings of the Poster Session at the 6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC09). CEUR-WS, 2008.
• Juri Luca De Coi, Peter Fankhauser, Tobias Kuhn, Wolfgang Nejdl, and Daniel Olmedilla. Controlled natural language policies. In Poster and Demo Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2009).
• Tobias Kuhn. Combining Semantic Wikis and Controlled Natural Language. In Proceedings of the Poster and Demonstration Session at the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2008). CEUR-WS, 2008. Poster

Thesis

• Tobias Kuhn. Controlled English for Knowledge Representation. Doctoral thesis, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology of the University of Zurich, 2010. PDF

Organized Events

• DeSemWeb 2018 Second Workshop on Decentralizing the Semantic Web, at ISWC 2018, Monterey, USA
• SemSci 2018 Second International Workshop on Enabling Open Semantic Science, at ISWC 2018, Monterey, USA
• DeSemWeb 2017 First Workshop on Decentralizing the Semantic Web, at ISWC 2017, Vienna, Austria
• SemSci 2017 First International Workshop on Enabling Open Semantic Science, at ISWC 2017, Vienna, Austria
• CNL 2014: Fourth Workshop on Controlled Natural Language, Galway, Ireland
• CNL 2012: Third Workshop on Controlled Natural Language, Zurich, Switzerland

Selected Invited Talks

• Nanopublications and Decentralized Publishing. Invited talk at DANS Seminar on Linked Data in Research and Cultural Heritage, Den Haag, 1 May 2017.
• Linked Data Publishing with Nanopublication. Invited talk at IOS Press 30 Year Anniversary, Amsterdam, 4 April 2017.
• Nanopublications. Invited talk at the Bring Your Own Rett Syndrome Data workshop, Maastricht University, 1 November 2016.
• Nanopublications. Invited talk at LERU Doctoral Summer School 2016, Leiden University, 13 July 2016.
• A Decentralized Network for Publishing Linked Data. Invited talk at the CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI9), Geneva, 17 June 2015. Slides
• Citation Graph Analysis to Identify Memes in Scientific Literature. Invited talk at Quic Inc., San Francisco, 11 June 2014. Slides
• Controlled Natural Language and Opportunities for Standardization. Keynote at the International Workshop on Terminology, Languages, and Content (LaRC), Pretoria (South Africa), 8 June 2013. PDF
• AceWiki. Grammatical Framework Summer School, Barcelona, 23 August 2011. PDF
• Semantic Web für Menschen wie du und ich (in German). 16th KnowTalk at KnowGravity Inc., Zurich, 1 February 2011. PDF
• An Introduction to AceWiki. Tutorial at the Second Workshop on Controlled Natural Language, Marettimo Island (Italy), 14 September 2010. PDF
• AceWiki: Controlled English in a Semantic Wiki. Semantic Wiki Mini Series, Session 2. Ontolog Conference Call, 20 November 2008. PDF

Awards

• Best Paper Award at the 20th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2016) for the paper Data 2 Documents: Modular and Distributive Content Management in RDF
• Best RASH Paper Award at the Workshop on Semantics, Analytics, Visualisation: Enhancing Scholarly Data (SAVE-SD 2015) at WWW 2015 for the paper Science Bots: A Model for the Future of Scientific Computation?
• Best Research Paper Award at the 11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2014) for the paper Trusty URIs: Verifiable, Immutable, and Permanent Digital Artifacts for Linked Data
• 1k Challenge Winner at the Beyond the PDF 2 conference in 2013 for the proposal of an Open Scholar Foundation
• Mercator Award of the University of Zurich in 2009 for my dissertation project on Controlled English for Knowledge Representation
• Best Paper Award at the Fourth Workshop on Semantic Wikis 2009 for the paper How Controlled English Can Improve Semantic Wikis

Short CV

• since 2023 Founder and CEO at Knowledge Pixels, Switzerland
• 2015-2022 Assistant professor at the Computer Science Department of the VU University Amsterdam
• 2013-2015: Postdoc at the ETH Zurich in the Computational Social Science group
• 2015: Visiting researcher at Stanford University in the Dumontier Lab at the Center for Biomedical Informatics Research
• 2014: Researcher at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) at the University of Geneva
• 2012: Postdoctoral associate at Yale University in the bioinformatics group of Prof. Krauthammer
• 2011: Lecturer and researcher at the University of Malta in the Department of Intelligent Computer Systems
• 2010: Visiting researcher at the Computer Science Department of the University of Chile in the PLEIAD group (Programming Languages and Environments for Intelligent, Adaptable and Distributed systems)
• 2006-2010: Doctoral student (and postdoc) at the Department of Informatics and the Institute of Computational Linguistics of the University of Zurich; graduation as a Doctor in Informatics (Dr. Inform.)
• 2005-2006: Visiting researcher at the Biotechnology Center of the Technical University Dresden in the Bioinformatics group
• 2001-2006: Studies in Computer Science and Economics ("Wirtschaftsinformatik") at the University of Zurich; graduation as a "Diplom-Informatiker" (Dipl. Inform.), equivalent to a Master of Science in Computer Science