Summary
Philipp Mayr is a team leader in Information & Data Retrieval at GESIS, combining over a decade of hands-on research and system development in information retrieval, digital libraries, and scientometrics. He holds a PhD in applied informetrics and has secured substantial national and European research funding as PI and co-PI, reflecting both academic credibility and programmatic leadership. Philipp has chaired major conferences (ECIR 2019, JCDL 2022, SocInfo 2022) and organizes workshops that bridge bibliometrics and IR, signaling influence in shaping research agendas. His group builds interactive retrieval systems and scholarly recommendation tools for the social sciences, blending semantic technologies, non-textual ranking, and user studies. Notably, he has rotated between academic leadership roles (including administering a professorship) and applied work in CRIS, publishing platforms and software ergonomics, demonstrating an uncommon mix of operational system delivery and theoretical innovation. Based in Cologne, he brings a pragmatic research mindset that consistently moves bibliometric methods into production-grade information systems.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. phil., Information science, Dr. phil., Information science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
English