Daniel Garijo

Daniel Garijo is an Associate Professor at the Artificial Intelligence Department of the Faculty of Computer Science, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). He is a researcher at the Ontology Engineering Group and collaborates with the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California.

His research focuses on e-Science and the Semantic Web, emphasizing the understandability of research software and computational workflows through provenance tracking and Linked Data exposure. Key areas include FAIR principles, ontology engineering, and automated metadata extraction.

Recent publications analyze

• FAIR software assessment metrics
• LLM applications for ontology engineering
• semantic artefact lifecycle optimization
• carbon emissions transparency
• RDF-star data integration

His work bridges open science with practical standardization efforts in research software.

He contributes to the Ontology Engineering Group at UPM, develops open-source tools (RO-Crate, SoMEF), and maintains semantic repositories via Github and ORCID.