I'm a Data Scientist at the Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung.
My work focuses on the application of bioinformatics and multivariate statistics in microbial ecology. To help connect marine microbes to societal needs, I lead the development of the Microbial Biomass and Diversity Essential Ocean Variable (EOV) on behalf of the UNESCO/IOC Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS; www.goosocean.org). I also coordinate the Global Omics Observatory Network (GLOMICON; www.glomicon.org) to help synchronise international research effort around global questions and needs.
Concurrently, I research and develop knowledge representation (KR) technologies to bridge human and machine intelligence. I lead the Environment Ontology (ENVO) and the UN Sustainable Development Goals Interface Ontology (SDGIO) in support of semantically consistent data standardisation across the sciences and global development agenda. I serve on the Operations Committee of the Open Biological and Biomedical Ontologies (OBO; www.obofoundry.org) Foundry and Library and co-chair the Semantic Technology Committee of the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP; www.esipfed.org). To use KR to support the future of ocean science, I lead the technical development of the UNESCO/IOC-IODE Ocean Best Practices System (www.oceanbestpractices.org).
Specialties: multivariate statistical analysis. exploratory data analysis, ecogenomics, comparative genomics, ontology development
