Danai Symeonidou

Danai Symeonidou is a Researcher (CR) at INRAE in Montpellier since 2015, working in the GAMMA team. She holds a PhD from University Paris Sud (2014) and a joint Greek-French Master's degree from the University of Crete and University Paris Sud. Her research focuses on Semantic Web technologies, key discovery in knowledge bases, rule mining, and descriptive analytics. She has conducted postdoctoral research at Telecom ParisTech and was a visiting researcher at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics in University College Cork, Ireland.

Education includes a Bachelor's degree from the University of Macedonia (2009), followed by advanced studies in France. She has extensive teaching experience across multiple institutions, including courses on Discrete Mathematics, Relational Databases, UML, Algorithms, and Semantic Web topics.

Her work emphasizes scalable solutions for data linking and key discovery, with contributions to RDF data analysis, knowledge base optimization, and agrifood chain modeling. She has published widely in top venues such as ISWC, K-Cap, and EKAW, focusing on theoretical foundations and practical applications of semantic web technologies.