Sören Auer

Prof. Sören Auer is the Director of the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) and Professor of Data Science and Digital Libraries at Leibniz Universität Hannover's Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. With academic positions at Dresden, Yekaterinburg, Leipzig, Pennsylvania, Bonn, and Fraunhofer Society, his career focuses on semantic technologies, knowledge engineering, and

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research Data Management
• Open Science
• Knowledge Graphs

. He leads the Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG) initiative and co-founded DBpedia and eccenca.com.

His research spans data science, AI-driven knowledge representation, and digital library systems. He has supervised numerous PhD theses and final-year theses while offering courses on

• Knowledge Engineering
• Semantic Web Technologies
• Data Integration
• Scientific Data Management

. The technical focus includes semantic data interlinking, neuro-symbolic AI, and contextual metadata frameworks.

As a recipient of prestigious awards including

• ERC Consolidator Grant
• SWSA Ten-Year Award
• ESWC 7-Year Best Paper Award
• OpenCourseware Innovation Award

, Prof. Auer has led major projects like BigDataEurope and contributes to standards in W3C, NFDI, and EOSC. His recent publications demonstrate advancements in ontology alignment, LLM-driven schema discovery, and hybrid AI systems for scholarly knowledge organization.