Florian Thiery
Research Software Engineer Ontology Engineer at Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA)
Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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Top SchoolFlorian Thiery is a Research Software Engineer and ontology specialist with 11 years of experience at the intersection of geodesy, geoinformatics and Digital Humanities, currently contributing to archaeological research infrastructure at the Leibniz Centre for Archaeology. He combines hands‑on RSE work—building tools like the SPARQLing Unicorn QGIS plugin and contributing to NFDI4Objects—with deep expertise in Linked Open Data, RDF/OWL modeling and spatial data infrastructures. His background as a geodesist and M.Sc. in Geoinformatics informs pragmatic solutions for spatial-semantic problems, from PostGIS and triple stores to web clients and RSE workflows. Known for bridging research and production, he has a track record of long-term projects (e.g., ARS3D) and community-facing roles in the Research Squirrel Engineers Network, revealing a commitment to reproducible, interoperable archaeological data.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Geoinformatik und Vermessung, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Geoinformatik und Vermessung at Fachhochschule Mainz
German, English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (63)
qgis10
semantic-web10
linked-data10
artifact9
zenodo9
application-server9
scientific-publications9
cffi9
archaeology9
sbt9
leiningen9
server9
unicorn9
api9
sparql9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mainzed/re3cat
Feb 2018 - Apr 2021
java library for managing the reference thesaurus catalogue (retcat)
Contributions:67 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 2 months
cataloguejava-librarylabelingsystemjavathesaurus
leiza-rse/alligator-mt-data
Apr 2019 - May 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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