Pier Buttigieg
Principal Investigator And Senior Data Scientist
Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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Top SchoolPier Buttigieg is a Principal Investigator and Senior Data Scientist with 13 years’ experience at the intersection of marine microbiology, biodiversity informatics, and digital architecture. He leads strategy and operations for regional and international research data infrastructures, chairs the IOC-UNESCO Ocean Data and Information System Project, and drives initiatives in federated digital exchange and digital twinning for ocean science. His technical strengths span interoperability, semantic harmonisation, knowledge representation, and high-dimensional data analysis applied to microbiome and biomolecular datasets. Pier combines hands-on data science and web-based tool development with governance and metadata stewardship across Helmholtz institutes and international consortia. Unusually for someone in senior strategy roles, he retains deep domain roots from a PhD in microbial genomics and a track record of applying multivariate statistics and graph theory to ecological genomics. Based in Bremen, Germany, he publishes and curates an up-to-date ORCID record that consolidates his cross-disciplinary research and infrastructure work.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate Diploma, HL: Biology, Chemistry, English; SL: History, Mathematical Methods, French, International Baccalaureate Diploma, HL: Biology, Chemistry, English; SL: History, Mathematical Methods, French at Verdala International SchoolBSc, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, BSc, Biochemistry and Cell Biology at Jacobs University BremenMSc, Marine Microbiology, MSc, Marine Microbiology at International Max Planck Research School of Marine MicrobiologyPreparatory courses for the International Baccalaureate Diploma, Preparatory courses for the International Baccalaureate Diploma at Kodaikanal International School
Github Skills (153)
ecology10
digital-humanities10
interoperability10
json-schema10
ontology10
semantic-web10
metadata10
data-management10
specification10
earth-science10
genomics10
owl10
ontologies10
semantics10
mining10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
SDG-InterfaceOntology/sdgio
Aug 2015 - Jun 2020
The repository for the Sustainable Development Goals Interface Ontology
Contributions:7 releases, 156 commits, 14 PRs in 4 years 10 months
goalssustainablesustainable-development-goalssemanticsobofoundry
marco-bolo/metadata-catalogue
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
The index for MBO datasets
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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