Simon Stier is a Full Stack IT-Engineer and Head of Digital Transformation at Fraunhofer ISC who combines dual master's training in Materials and Computer Science with a PhD in sensor materials and IoT. He leads efforts to accelerate materials research through semantic interoperability, authoring the OpenSemanticLab open-source ecosystem that blends industry standards and AI agents to make ontologies usable without specialist knowledge. Comfortable across research, automation and full-stack development, he balances strategic transformation work with hands-on freelance software projects. Based in Würzburg, he has a practical background in building automated test/build systems and instrument integration, and a particular knack for turning complex lab workflows into machine-actionable, data-driven pipelines.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
PhD, Graduate School of Science & Technology, PhD, Graduate School of Science & Technology at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Contributions:5 releases, 2 PRs, 29 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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