Leyla Castro
Semantic Retrieval Team Leader at ZB MED - Informationszentrum Lebenswissenschaften
Germany
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Top SchoolLeyla Castro is a Semantic Retrieval Team Leader with 14 years of experience applying semantic web, NLP and machine learning to make research artifacts more discoverable and reusable. She leads R&D and project coordination at ZB MED’s BibLabs Group, guiding a team that blends metadata schemas, linked data and embedding-driven retrieval while acting as a Scrum-like facilitator for academic and community projects. A Cum Laude PhD in Software Engineering and Text Mining underpins her hands-on development with Java, Jupyter, and JavaScript and her supervision of student and thesis work. Active in national and international networks (RSE-DE, RDA, ELIXIR), she bridges FAIR/Open Science practices with practical tooling and outreach. Colleagues value her rare combination of deep semantic expertise, pedagogy from university teaching, and a knack for turning complex research needs into interoperable, reuse-focused systems.
14 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Software Engineering | Artificial Intelligence | Text mining, Cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Software Engineering | Artificial Intelligence | Text mining, Cum laude at Universitat Jaume ISpecialization (M.A. in education), University education and teaching, Specialization (M.A. in education), University education and teaching at Universidad Militar Nueva GranadaUniversidad de los Andes
Github Skills (98)
json-schema10
specification10
schema10
vocabulary10
rdf10
tla10
visualization10
viewer10
data-visualisation10
rda10
facebook10
schema-org10
structured-data10
bioinformatics10
json-ld10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ebi-uniprot/ProtVista
Dec 2014 - Oct 2018
A BioJS viewer for protein sequence features
Contributions:576 commits, 38 PRs, 565 pushes in 3 years 11 months
sequencejavascriptbiojsviewerprotein-sequence
BioSchemas/schemaorg
Jun 2017 - Sep 2020
Schema.org - schemas and (appengine) software
Contributions:1 PR, 17 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 2 months
schemasjson-schemaappengineschema-org
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