Michel Dumontier
Distinguished Professor at Universiteit Maastricht
Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMichel Dumontier is a Distinguished Professor of Data Science at Maastricht University and a founder of the FAIR data principles, combining 17 years of research leadership with deep expertise in bioinformatics, semantic technologies, and linked data. He leads the Institute of Data Science and directs initiatives like Bio2RDF while co-chairing the W3C Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences group, bridging standards, policy and applied AI. His work focuses on multi-modal knowledge graphs, privacy-preserving distributed data mining, and AI for drug discovery and personalized medicine, funded by major agencies including NWO, Horizon Europe, NIH and ARPA-H. An editor-in-chief of Data Science and long-standing contributor to semantic web standards, he is known for translating ontologies and linked data into practical tools that accelerate responsible discovery science. Less obvious: he blends hands-on technical stewardship with high-level policy influence, shaping both research infrastructure and global data interoperability practices.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Sciencee, Biochemistry, Bachelor of Sciencee, Biochemistry at University of ManitobaPhD, Biochemistry (Bioinformatics), PhD, Biochemistry (Bioinformatics) at University of Toronto
Github Skills (197)
ontology10
datasets10
owl10
ontologies10
semantics10
predict10
rdf10
geneontology10
connected9
rest9
api9
translator9
reasoner9
api-platform9
prediction-model9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
prefixcommons/prefixcommons-api
Feb 2016 - Jul 2018
API for prefixcommons
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
api
MaastrichtU-IDS/semanticscience
Jan 2009 - Dec 2022
The Semanticscience Integrated Ontology (SIO) provides a simple, integrated ontology of types and relations for rich description of objects, processes and their attributes.
Contributions:2 releases, 503 commits, 9 PRs in 14 years 1 month
relationsjsonldintegratedowllinked-data
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