Johanna Geiß

Johanna Geiß is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Computer Science, Heidelberg University, specializing in Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction, and Event Detection. She contributes to projects like SCIDATOS (sepsis diagnosis) and EventAE (event-based Linked Data exploration).

• Education: PhD from University of Cambridge (2011), Magister Artium in Computational Linguistics (Heidelberg, 2006)

Her research integrates Geoparsing, Social Network Analysis, and Graph Theory for tasks such as toponym disambiguation and entity resolution. Recent work includes frameworks like HeidelPlace and tools for semantic word clouds.

Key awards include the 2010 Lundgren Research Award and multiple grants from the EPSRC and Cambridge European Trust. She has taught courses on Information Networks and Data Mining at Heidelberg University.

As a postdoc, she advises on scientific computing applications in healthcare and contributes to open-source tools like NECKAr and EventAE.