Team

Zongxiong Chen

Doctoral Researcher



Zongxiong Chen is a doctoral researcher at Fraunhofer FOKUS. He is mainly involved in the projects NFDI4DataScience and NFDI4Cat.

Xuanchi Guo

Doctoral Researcher



Xuanchi Guo is a doctoral researcher at Technical University of Berlin. She is mainly involved in the project NFDI4Cat.

Christine Hennig

Senior Researcher



Christine Hennig is a senior researcher at Fraunhofer FOKUS. She is coordinating the project NFDI4DataScience.

Prof. Dr. Manfred Hauswirth

Principal Investigator




Manfred Hauswirth is the managing director (CEO) of the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS) and a full professor for “Open Distributed Systems” at the Technical University Berlin. Before he had been deputy director of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI, now DSI) and a professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His research is on distributed information systems, Internet of Things, data stream processing and Linked Data, semantics and AI. He has won several international awards for his work in these areas and is active in many scientific and political committees around digitization.

Sousan Homaeipour

Doctoral Researcher



Sousan Homaeipour is a doctoral researcher at Technical University of Berlin. She is mainly involved in the project QUADRIGA.

Angelie Kraft

Research Group Lead



Angelie Kraft is research group lead at the Weizenbaum Institute.

Qian Liu

Doctoral Researcher




Qian Liu is a doctoral researcher at TU Berlin. He is mainly involved in the projects NFDI4Cat and NFDI4DataScience. Before joining the research group, he was working in the Open Distributed Systems (ODS) group at TU Berlin. His research interests include: incomplete provenance graph recovery, image provenance analysis, missing data handling methods, image scene graph generation, computer vision, multimodal learning, generative adversarial networks, deep metric learning, few shot learning, deep representation/feature learning, life long/incremental learning. Before pursuing his PhD, Qian obtained two M.Sc. degrees: Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at University of Bern and Management, Economics and Technology at ETH Zurich.

Julia Michalsky

Researcher



Julia Michalsky is a researcher at Technical University of Berlin. She is mainly involved in the project QUADRIGA.

Prof. Dr. Sonja Schimmler

Group Head



Sonja Schimmler is a visiting professor for research data infrastructure at Technical University of Berlin. At the same time, she is research group lead at Fraunhofer FOKUS and at the Weizenbaum Institute. Her research focuses on the digitalization and opening up of science. She puts a special emphasis on research and AI and on research data infrastructures. She studied computer science at the Technical University of Munich and at the Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) and received her doctorate at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich.

Jiangtao Shuai

Doctoral Researcher



Jiangtao Shuai is a doctoral researcher at Technical University of Berlin. He is mainly involved in the project NFDI4Cat.

Yue Zhang

Doctoral Researcher



Yue Zhang is a doctoral researcher at Technical University of Berlin. He is mainly involved in the projects NFDI4Cat and QUADRIGA.

Associated Researchers

Isabell Falkenhausen

Fabian Kirstein

Susanna Kuper

Jana Plomin

Former (Associated) Researchers

Mareike Bauer

Prof. Dr. Mathieu d'Aquin

Sefika Efeoglu

Carlos Franzreb

Leonard Mack

VyVy Tran Ngoc

Prof. Dr. Isabel Steinhardt

Sebastian Urbanek

Bianca Wentzel

Hannes Wünsche