Romana Pernisch

Romana Pernisch is a Researcher at the Department of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research focuses on ontology engineering, knowledge graphs, and their applications in robotics and sustainability. She contributes to projects like the ORKA ontology for robotics and the CoPla ontology for companion planting.

Research Interests:

• Ontology Development and Evolution
• Knowledge Graph Construction and Lifecycle Management
• AI Integration in Robotics and Agriculture
• Semantic Technologies and Data Visualization

Her work emphasizes methodologies for aligning ontologies with knowledge graphs, improving robotic perception through semantic integration, and fostering sustainable practices via computational tools. Recent collaborations include studies on ontology change impact analysis and knowledge graph applications in dark web classification.

Labs & Contributions:

• Contributed to the Dynamic Knowledge Graphs for Continual Learning of Embeddings dataset (2023).
• Co-developed the ChImp tool for ontology change visualization.
• Teaching assistant for Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Technologies (2024–2025).