I am the founder and chairman of Open Knowledge Maps, a non-profit dedicated to improving the visibility of scientific knowledge for science and society alike.I am a long-time open science advocate – I am a community coordinator of the Open Science Working Group of Open Knowledge Austria and member of the core team of the Open Access Network Austria.You may also know me for the following reasons:* I coined the term “Open Methodology” in the 2011 paper The case for an open science in technology enhanced learning with D. Leony, W. Reinhardt and G. Beham.* I am the lead author of The Vienna Principles, a vision for scholarly communication in the 21st century.* I was a senior researcher in the Social Computing group at Know-Center (Graz University of Technology), managing the topic of Open Science.In my research, I focused on scholarly communication on the web, open science, and alternative metrics for science and research (altmetrics). I received my doctoral degree (Dr. rer. soc. oec.) from University of Graz in 2014. I have worked in a number of EU-funded projects studying online scholarly communication, including the Network of Excellence STELLAR, the Marie Curie project TEAM, and most recently I lead the work package on innovative dissemination in the Horizon 2020 project OpenUP. For my work, I was awarded a Panton Fellowship of the Open Knowledge Foundation and a Marshallplan Scholarship of the Austrian Marshallplan Foundation, which I spent at the Personalized Adaptive Web Systems Lab of University of Pittsburgh. For my dissertation, I have received the GOR Thesis Award 2016 and the GRAWE Promotional Award 2014.