Philipp Mayr Email & Phone Number

Philipp Mayr is a team leader (Information & Data Retrieval) at the GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences department Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences (KTS). In the winter semester 2020/2021, he administrated the W3 professorship “Scientific Information Analytics” at the University of Göttingen, Institute of Computer Science. He has been a visiting professor for knowledge representation at University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt, Department of Information Science & Engineering during 2009-2011. Philipp Mayr received his PhD in applied informetrics and information retrieval from the Berlin School of Library and Information Science at Humboldt University Berlin in 2009. To date, he has been awarded substantial research funding (PI, Co-PI) from national and European funding agencies. Philipp Mayr was General Chair of the 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2019) in April 2019, Programme Chair of the 22nd ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2022) in June 2022, Programme Chair of the 13th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2022) in October 2022. He has published in top conferences and prestigious journals in the areas informetrics, information retrieval and digital libraries. His research group “Information and Data Retrieval” is working on methods and techniques of interactive information and dataset retrieval and maintains and further develops information systems for the social sciences. He is the main organizer of the International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR) and Scholarly Document Processing workshop series.My research interests include: interactive information retrieval, scholarly recommendation systems, non-textual ranking, bibliometric and scientometric methods, applied informetrics, science models in digital libraries, knowledge representation, semantic technologies, user studies, information behavior.

Listed skills include Information Retrieval, Digital Libraries, Knowledge Representation, Semantic Web, and 18 others.