Prof. Dr. York Sure-Vetter
Scientific Director
Information Process Engineering
Career
Prof. Dr. York Sure-Vetter is a university professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in the Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB). His research interests include Web Science, Semantic Web, Linked Data, Data and Text Mining, and Service Science.
York Sure-Vetter received his diploma in industrial engineering from the Karlsruhe University (TH) in 1999. In 2003, he completed his doctorate on the topic of ontologies and knowledge management at the Karlsruhe University (TH). From 2007 to 2009, he was a senior researcher at SAP AG. From 2009 to 2015,he held the office of President of the GESIS Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences. He successfully led the Leibniz Institute GESIS through a Leibniz evaluation as well as two audits. Through joint appointment procedures based on the Jülich model, York held professorships at the University of Koblenz-Landau and the University of Mannheim during this time. In 2015, Your Sure-Vetter was offered a professorship at KIT’s AIFB and has since also been Director at KIT’s Karlsruhe Service Research Institute (KSRI) as well as at the FZI Research Center for Information Technology.
York has been a visiting professor at the University of Mannheim and Stanford University. He received various research and teaching awards, including the IBM UIMA Innovation Award, the Wolfgang Heilmann Prize of the Integrata Foundation, and several times the HECTOR Teaching Award.
Currently, York Sure-Vetter is on leave as Director of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI). For more information, please visit http://www.nfdi.de
- +49 721 9654-802
- york.sure-vetter@fzi.de
- Headquarters Karlsruhe
Engagements and Awards
- Director of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI)
- Founding Chair of the General Assembly of the European Research Data Infrastructure CESSDA ERIC (2013-2015).
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Know-Center, Graz, Austria
- Member of the Board of Trustees of ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (since 2011)
- Area Chair, World Wide Web Conference (WWW2010), Raleigh, NC, USA Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the “Fachportal Pädagogik” at DIPF – German Institute for International Educational Research (since 2010)
- Member of the German National Advisory Council of the OECD’s “PIAAC: Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies” study (2009–2014)
- Member of the RatSWD (2009–2014)
- Member of the Organizing Committee of the ISWC – International Semantic Web Conference (2007)
- Member of the Organizing Committee of ESTC – European Semantic Technologies Conference (2007)
- Co-Chair of the Program Committee of the 2nd International Conference Semantics (2006)
- Member of the Steering Committee of the ESWC – European Semantic Web Conference (2006-2007)
- Chairman of the Program Committee of the ESWC – European Semantic Web Conference (2006)
- Member of the Steering Committee of the FGWM – GI Expert Group Knowledge Management (2006-2007)
- Co-Editor of Semantic Grid – Special Issue of Elsevier’s Journal of Web Semantics
- Member of the Organizing Committee of the ISWC – International Semantic Web Conference (2005)
- Co-Organizer of the Dagstuhl Seminar Semantic Grid (05271)
- Member of the organizing committee of the ESWC – European Semantic Web Conference (2005)
- Member of the Organizing Committee of ISWC – International Semantic Web Conference (2004)
- Co-organizer of WM2001 – 1st Conference Professional Knowledge Management, Experiences and Visions
- German Society for Informatics
IBM UIMA Innovation Award
- Wolfgang Heilmann Prize of the Integrata Foundation
- HECTOR Teaching Award