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Sören Auer
Following stations at the universities of Dresden, Ekaterinburg, Leipzig, Pennsylvania, Bonn and Fraunhofer Society, Sören was appointed Professor of Data Science and Digital Libraries at Leibniz Universität Hannover and Director of the TIB in 2017. Sören strives to combine scientific excellence with high-impact societal applications. He is co-founder of high potential research and community projects such as the Wikipedia semantification project DBpedia, the OpenCourseWare authoring platform SlideWiki.org, the Open research Knowledge Graph and the innovative technology start-up eccenca.com.