Elena Simperl

European network of 125 participatory science initiatives using technologies like AI to fight climate change

Chief scientific advisor on the European Commission’s flagship open government data programme

European network of digital innovation hubs providing data and AI support and services to startups and SMEs

Scientific and technical lead of MediaFutures. European network bringing together artists, creatives and entrepreneurs to solve common challenges around online misinformation, polarization and engagement in democratic processes

European training network for doctoral students funded through the Marie Sklodowska Curie program in Horizon 2020

Principal investigator and project lead of ACTION, H2020 project helping citizen science initiatives fight different forms of pollution

European innovation programme supporting data-centric startups with a range of technical, legal, marketing, and business mentoring and courses (EU H2020 CSA, 2019 – 2022)

European initiative bringing together five European cities to deliver a smart city innovation platform using open data (Interreg2Seas, 2018 – 2021)

Principal investigator, EPSRC grant exploring frameworks, methods and tools to engage with data in a post-truth society (UK EPSRC, 2017 – 2021)

EU-funded project building the European Data Portal, which provides access to the 28 national open government data portals in EU28 (first project 2014 – 2018, second project 2018 – 2021)

European project building research and innovation roadmaps for the adoption of distributed ledgers technology in Europe (EU, 2018 – 2020)

European initiative bringing together five European cities to deliver a smart city innovation platform using open data (Interreg2Seas, 2018 – 2021)

H2020 project building smart analytics solutions in public and private procurement using open data and knowledge graphs (EU H2020 IA, 2018 – 2020)

Principal investigator and project lead. H2020 project building a data sharing ecosystem in which data providers and start-ups work together to innovate with proprietary data and AI (EU H2020 IA, 2017 – 2019)

Principal investigator and project lead. H2020 project building a human-in-the-loop data analytics platform for smart transport (EU H2020 IA, 2017 – 2019)

H2020 project developing collaborative eLearning technologies (EU H2020, 2016 – 2019)

Deputy project lead. European training network funded through the Marie Sklodowska Curie program (EU MSCA ITN, 2015 - 2019)

European collective awareness platform helping communities all over Europe fight against the effects of light pollution (EU H2020 CAPS, 2016 – 2018)

Scientific lead. EU-funded project that developed curricula on data science for technology developers and business analysts (EU H2020 CSA, 2015 - 2018)

Principal investigator and project lead. H2020 project realising an accelerator/incubator for start-ups and SMEs interested in growing their business using open and linked data (EU H2020 IA, 2015 - 2017)

EU-funded research exchange network bringing together research institutions worldwide working on semantic data management (EU FP7 IRSES, 2013 - 2017)

EU-funded research exchange network bringing together research institutions worldwide working on semantic data management (EU FP7 IRSES, 2013 - 2017)

EPSRC-funded project studying the theoretical and technical foundations of socio-technical systems on the web (EPSRC programme grant, 2012 - 2017)

EU-funded project developing a monitoring platform for open data repositories on the web (EU FP7 STREP, 2013 - 2015)

Principal investigator and project lead. EU-funded project developing learning materials for data practitioners interested in using linked data and the associated technology stack

Scientific lead. EU-funded network of excellence building an interdisciplinary community around the topics of provisioning and consuming data over the Internet at scale (EU FP7 NoE, 2010 - 2014)

Scientific lead. EU-funded project developing methods, techniques, software and data sets that leverage diversity as a crucial source of innovation and creativity (EU FP7 STREP, 2010 - 2012)

Principal investigator, EU-funded project bridging the gap between human and computational intelligence in semantic content authoring (EU FP7 STREP, 2009 - 2012)

EU-funded FP7 project developing enterprise knowledge management solutions based on web 2.0 and semantic web principles (EU FP7 IP, 2008 - 2011)

The EU-funded Large Knowledge Collider, a pluggable distributed reasoning framework scaling to web reasoning by trading quality for computational cost (EU FP7 IP, 2008 - 2011)

EU-funded project providing a service delivery platform through which billions of parties are exposing and consuming services via advanced web technology (EU FP7 IP, 2008 - 2011)

Austrian support actions funded by the FIT-IT program that produced training infrastructure for semantic technologies (FIT-IT SAs, 2008 - 2009).

EU-funded project that improved cross media-production for games, movies and broadcast by combining computer graphics, language technology, semantic web and media retrieval (EU FP6 IP, 2007 - 2009)

Technical lead, EU-funded project that used tuplespace and coordination architectures to develop RDF-enabled data lakes (EU FP6 STREP, 2006 - 2009)

SEnSE – Austrian project that used semantic technologies to improve communication in product development processes (FIT-IT, 2007 - 2008)

EU-funded Network of Excellence enabling a wide scale dissemination of semantic web technologies in industrial and educational through research collaboration (EU FP6 NoE, 2004 - 2007)

Principal investigator, developed methods and tools for estimating the costs involved in ontology engineering processes (2004 - 2007)

Models and methods to build a semantic middleware based on tuple spaces and coordination systems (2004-2007)

National project on ontology-based information retrieval, ontology-based information extraction, ontology reuse, medical ontologies funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG, 2003 - 2007)

Semantic wiki Makna based on JSPWiki (2005 - 2006)

Project on location-based eHealth services and community support services funded by the German Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF, 2002 - 2004)