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info@zbmed.de
Phone: +49 (0)221 999 892 240

Cologne Site

Medicine and Health

Address:
ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences
Gleueler Straße 60
50931 Cologne (Köln)
Germany

Bonn Site

Nutritional, Environmental and Agricultural Sciences

Address:
ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences
Friedrich-Hirzebruch-Allee 4
53115 Bonn
Germany

InfoCenter

INFORMATION.

KNOWLEDGE.
LIFE.

An infrastructure and research centre for data and information in the life sciences.

Leyla Jael Castro

Team Leader Semantic Technologies

Key tasks and activities

  • Literature-based information retrieval 
  • Recommendation systems 
  • Ontology-based search and categorization
  • Interdisciplinary research in the Life Sciences domain

Profile

"I am a Computer Scientist interested in semantic web, linked data, data science, open science and education. I am currently involved in community projects aiming to make FAIR a reality not only for data but also for software and training materials. I have worked on software development and data integration semantic, project coordination, scientific events organization and chairing, and community-based projects (e.g. Bioschemas and BioJS). I have also worked as a university lecturer on software development and information systems."

Educational background

  • 2012 – 2017
    PhD Computer Languages and Systems (with a focus on AI) , Universitat Jaume I, Spain
  • 2006 – 2007
    Graduated diploma in education, Universidad Militar Nueva Granada, Colombia
  • 2004 – 2006
    M. Sc. Computer Science, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
  • 1992 – 1997 
    Bachelor Computer Science, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

Career to date

  • since 2019
    Team Leader Semantic Technologies, ZB MED
  • 2018 – 2019
    Knowledge and Semantic Web Coordinator, ELIXIR Hub
  • 2013 – 2019
    Senior Software Engineer, EMBL-EBI
  • 2010 – 2013
    Data Integration Developer, EMBL-EBI
  • 2009 – 2010
    Junior Researcher, Universität der Bundeswehr
  • 2000 – 2009
    Lecturer, Web Developer, Universidad de la Sabana
  • 1997 – 2003
    Lecturer, Fundación Universitaria San Martín

Professional bodies and associations

  • RDA Research Metadata Schemas 
  • RDA FAIR4RS 
  • RDA FAIR4ML
  • Bioschemas

 

Working groups in NFDI:

  • NFDI Section (Meta)data, Termino­­lo­gies, Provenance, Research Software Metadata
  • NFDI Section (Meta)data, Termino­­lo­gies, Provenance, Ontology Harmonization and Mapping
  • NFDI Section Infrastructures, Research Software Engineering (RSE)​

Publications

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