Committee

The SEMANTiCS conference series is a joint effort of the European Semantic Web and Linked Data community, including people and organisations from industry, research, NGO and governmental sector.


Conference Chairs 2018

​Research and Innovation Chairs:

Data Science Track Chairs:

Industry and Use case Presentations:

  • Tobias Bürger, BMW
  • Christian Dirschl, Wolters Kluwer
  • Andreas Blumauer, Semantic Web Company

Workshops and Tutorials Chairs:

  • Javier D. Fernández, WU Vienna
  • Tobias Kuhn, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Posters and Demos

  • Ali Khalili, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  • Maria Koutraki, FIZ Karlsruhe

Conference Chairs:

Vocarnival:

  • Alexandra Garatzogianni, Leibniz Information Center for Science & Technology (TIB), Leibniz University of Hannover

Organisation / Local Chair 

  • Thomas Thurner,Semantic Web Company 
  • Niina Novak, ​Vienna University of Technology

Programme Committee - Poster & Demo Track

  • Maribel Acosta (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
  • Natanael Arndt (Leipzig University)
  • Jarosław Bąk (Poznan University of Technology)
  • Wouter Beek (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Stefan Bischof (Siemens AG Österreich)
  • Jean-Paul Calbimonte (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland HES-SO)
  • Davide Ceolin (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Ioannis Chrysakis (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH))
  • Oscar Corcho (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
  • Enrico Daga (The Open University)
  • Victor de Boer (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Klaas Andries de Graaf (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Dieter De Paepe (Ghent University)
  • Emanuele Della Valle (Politecnico di Milano)
  • Anastasia Dimou (Ghent University)
  • Anca Dumitrache (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Ivan Ermilov (Universität Leipzig)
  • Valeria Fionda (University of Calabria)
  • Roberto Garcia (Universitat de Lleida)
  • Raúl García-Castro (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
  • Peter Haase (metaphacts)
  • Karl Hammar (Jönköping University)
  • Laura Hollink (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Matthew Horridge (Stanford University)
  • Filip Ilievski (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Tomi Kauppinen (Department of Computer Science, Aalto University School of Science)
  • Ali Khalili (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Elmar Kiesling (Vienna University of Technology)
  • Sabrina Kirrane (Vienna University of Economics and Business - WU Wien)
  • Maria Koutraki (FIZ Karlsruhe)
  • Michael Lauruhn (Elsevier)
  • Valentina Maccatrozzo (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Erik Mannens (iMinds - Ghent University - Multimedia Lab)
  • Michael Martin (University of Leipzig, Department for Business Applications)
  • Miguel A. Martinez-Prieto (University of Valladolid)
  • Marios Meimaris (National Technical University of Athens)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Nandana Mihindukulasooriya (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
  • Raghava Mutharaju (GE Global Research)
  • Jeff Z. Pan (University of Aberdeen)
  • George Papastefanatos (IMIS / RC “Athena”)
  • Tassilo Pellegrini (University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten)
  • Giuseppe Pirrò (Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR-CNR))
  • Axel Polleres (Vienna University of Economics and Business - WU Wien)
  • Thomas Riechert (Leipzig University of Applied Sciences)
  • Giuseppe Rizzo (ISMB)
  • Víctor Rodríguez Doncel (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
  • Vadim Savenkov (Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU))
  • Stefan Schlobach (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Jodi Schneider (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign)
  • Mohamed Ahmed Sherif (Paderborn University, Data Science Group)
  • Tommaso Soru (University of Leipzig)
  • Ruben Taelman (Ghent University)
  • Annette Ten Teije (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Thomas Thurner (Semanic Web Company)
  • Riccardo Tommasini (Politecnico di Milano)
  • Ricardo Usbeck (University of Paderborn)
  • Frank Van Harmelen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Jacco van Ossenbruggen (CWI & VU University Amsterdam)
  • Serena Villata (CNRS - Laboratoire d'Informatique, Signaux et Systèmes de Sophia-Antipolis)
  • Veruska Zamborlini (University of Amsterdam)
  • Amrapali Zaveri (Maastricht University)
  • Antoine Zimmermann (École des Mines de Saint-Étienne)

Programme Committee Research and Innovation Track

  • Alessandro Adamou (The Open University)
  • Rajendra Akerkar (Western Norway Research Institute, Norway)
  • Jose María Alvarez Rodríguez (Carlos III University of Madrid)
  • Grigoris Antoniou (University of Huddersfield)
  • Natanael Arndt (Leipzig University)
  • Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT CNRS)
  • Wouter Beek (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Stefan Bischof (Siemens AG Österreich)
  • Carlos Bobed (University of Rennes 1)
  • Uldis Bojars (IMCS – University of Latvia)
  • Charalampos Bratsas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
  • John Breslin
  • Irene Celino (CEFRIEL)
  • Davide Ceolin (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Pierre-Antoine Champin (LIRIS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon1)
  • Jean Charlet (AP-HP & INSERM UMRS 1142)
  • Vinay Chaudhri (Independent Researcher)
  • Philipp Cimiano (Bielefeld University)
  • Ioana-Georgiana Ciuciu (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)
  • Pieter Colpaert (Ghent University)
  • Oscar Corcho (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
  • Gianluca Correndo (University of Southampton)
  • Aba-Sah Dadzie (The Open University)
  • Enrico Daga (The Open University)
  • Laura M. Daniele (TNO - Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research)
  • Sándor Darányi
  • Victor de Boer (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Stefan Decker (RWTH Aachen University)
  • Elena Demidova (L3S Research Center)
  • Sylvie Despres (Laboratoire d'Informatique Médicale et de BIOinformatique (LIM&BIO))
  • Chiara Di Francescomarino (Fondazione Bruno Kessler-IRST)
  • Stefan Dietze (L3S Research Center)
  • Anastasia Dimou (Ghent University)
  • Mauro Dragoni (Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK-IRST)
  • Anca Dumitrache (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Samhaa El-Beltagy (Nile University)
  • Catherine Faron Zucker (Université Nice Sophia Antipolis)
  • Anna Fensel (STI International)
  • Javier D. Fernández (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
  • Agata Filipowska (Department of Information Systems, Poznan University of Economics)
  • Aldo Gangemi (Università di Bologna & CNR-ISTC)
  • Roberto Garcia (Universitat de Lleida)
  • José María García (University of Seville)
  • Raúl García-Castro (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
  • Daniel Garijo (Information Sciences Institute)
  • Juan Miguel Gomez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
  • Benjamin Heitmann (RWTH Aachen University, Database and Information Systems Group (i5))
  • Eelco Herder (Radboud University)
  • Rinke Hoekstra (University of Amsterdam)
  • Geert-Jan Houben (Delft University of Technology)
  • Zhisheng Huang (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Eero Hyvönen (Aalto University)
  • Valentina Janev (The Mihajlo Pupin Institute)
  • Carlos Juiz (University of the Balearic Islands)
  • Naouel Karam (Freie Universität Berlin)
  • Elmar Kiesling (Vienna University of Technology)
  • Magnus Knuth (Leipzig University)
  • Efstratios Kontopoulos (Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research & Technology - Hellas)
  • Tobias Kuhn (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Christoph Lange (University of Bonn & Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany)
  • Michael Lauruhn (Elsevier)
  • Maxime Lefrançois (MINES Saint-Etienne)
  • Isaac Lera (UIB)
  • Steffen Lohmann (Fraunhofer)
  • Sandra Lovrenčić (University of Zagreb, Faculty of organization and informatics Varazdin, Pavlinska 2, HR-42000 Varazdin, Croatia)
  • Chun Lu (Université Paris-Sorbonne & Sépage)
  • Maria Maleshkova (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
  • Carlos Martinez-Ortiz (Netherlands eScience Center)
  • Albert Meroño-Peñuela (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Franck Michel (Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, I3S, France)
  • Andras Micsik (SZTAKI)
  • Riichiro Mizoguchi (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
  • Dmitry Mouromtsev (NRU ITMO, Russia)
  • Lyndon Nixon (MODUL Technology GmbH)
  • Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese (University of Bologna)
  • Leo Obrst (MITRE)
  • Jeff Z. Pan (University of Aberdeen)
  • Heiko Paulheim (University of Mannheim)
  • Tassilo Pellegrini (University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten)
  • Catia Pesquita (LaSIGE, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa)
  • Cédric Pruski (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology)
  • Xiuquan Qiao (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, China)
  • Artem Revenko (Semantic Web Company GmbH)
  • Giuseppe Rizzo (ISMB)
  • Oscar Rodríguez Rocha (INRIA)
  • Dumitru Roman (SINTEF)
  • Marco Rospocher (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)
  • Anisa Rula (University of Milano-Bicocca)
  • Marta Sabou (Vienna University of Technology)
  • Harald Sack (FIZ Karlsruhe, Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure & KIT Karlsruhe)
  • Felix Sasaki (Lambdawerk)
  • Vadim Savenkov (Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU))
  • Stefan Schlobach (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Pavel Shvaiko (Informatica Trentina)
  • Ronny Siebes (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Aleksander Smywiński-Pohl (Jagiellonian University)
  • Monika Solanki (University of Oxford)
  • Ioannis Stavrakantonakis (KAYAK)
  • Holger Stenzhorn (Saarland University Hospital)
  • Simon Steyskal (Siemens AG Austria)
  • Vojtěch Svátek (University of Economics, Prague)
  • Ruben Taelman (Ghent University)
  • Thomas Thurner (Semanic Web Company)
  • Konstantin Todorov (LIRMM / University of Montpellier)
  • Raphaël Troncy (EURECOM)
  • Mathias Uslar (OFFIS)
  • Maria Esther Vidal (Universidad Simon Bolivar, Dept. Computer Science)
  • Serena Villata (CNRS - Laboratoire d'Informatique, Signaux et Systèmes de Sophia-Antipolis)
  • Joerg Waitelonis (yovisto GmbH)
  • Shenghui Wang (OCLC Research)
  • Krzysztof Wecel (Poznan University of Economics)
  • Wolfram Wöß (Institute for Application Oriented Knowledge Processing, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)
  • Veruska Zamborlini (University of Amsterdam)
  • Eva Zangerle (Databases and Information Systems, Department of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck)
  • Amrapali Zaveri (Maastricht University)
  • Antoine Zimmermann (École des Mines de Saint-Étienne)