Research team

Ontop is a project initiated by Diego Calvanese and Mariano Rodriguez-Muro in 2009 in the KRDB research centre for Knowledge and Data (opens new window) at the Free University of Bolzano (opens new window).

A decade after, Ontop remains very active, both from a research and a software development point of view.

Researchers

Here we list the people who have been involved in the research side of the Ontop project. For the development side, see the community page.

At the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Unibz)

• Prof. Dr. Diego Calvanese (opens new window) (Scientific Coordinator)
• Assistant Prof. Dr. Julien Corman
• Assistant Prof. Dr. Davide Lanti
• Assistant Prof. Dr. Alessandro Mosca (also affiliated at CNR-ISTC Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA) (opens new window)）

Alumni researchers from Unibz

• Prof. Dr. Guohui Xiao (opens new window) (Southeast University / Team Leader: Dec. 2015 - )
• Dr. Mariano Rodríguez-Muro (Google USA / Founder / Former Team Leader: 2011 – Oct. 2013)
• Dr. Martin Rezk (Google USA / Former Team Leader: Oct. 2013 – Nov. 2015)
• Dr. Elena Botoeva (opens new window) (University of Kent, UK)
• Dr. Benjamin Cogrel (opens new window) (Ontopic (opens new window), Bolzano)
• Dr. Elem Güzel Kalaycı (opens new window) (Virtual Vehicle Research GmbH, Austria)
• Dr. Linfang Ding (opens new window) (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

International collaborations

• Dr. Roman Kontchakov (opens new window) (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
• Prof. Dr. Michael Zakharyaschev (opens new window) (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
• Dr. Vladislav Ryzhikov (opens new window) (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
• Dr. Dag Hovland (opens new window) (Institutt for informatikk Universitetet i Oslo, Norway)

Projects

The development and the research around Ontop over the years have been mainly funded by research projects.

Current projects

• CYCLOPS (opens new window), EU Project
• D2G2 (opens new window) (Dense and Deep Geographic Virtual Knowledge Graphs for Visual Analysis), funded by DFG and the province of Bolzano

Past projects

• Thinking ONtologiES (TONES), EU FET project
• Optique (opens new window) (Scalable End-User Access to Big Data) FP7 project
• Ontology-based Data Access to NoSQL Database (OBDAM), Unibz project
• Ontology-based analysis of temporal and streaming data (OBATS), Unibz project
• IDEE (data integration in the energy sector), FESR Project
• GeoVKG (geo-spatial VKG), Unibz project
• High Quality Data Integration with Ontologies (QUADRO), Unibz project
• High quality Open data Publishing and Enrichment (HOPE), Italian national PRIN (Research Projects of National Relevance)
• PACMEL (VKG for process mining), CHIST-ERA EU Project
• INODE (opens new window) (data management infrastructures), H2020 EU project