Big Data and its ethical / social implications - "Should data rule tomorrow's world?"

Since 2017, Michael holds the Chair of Data Science at the University of Passau, following a Professorship for Media Computer Science since 2012 (also at University of Passau). Before, he was Scientific Director of the Know-Center Graz (since 2010) and assistant professer at the Knowledge Technology lnstitute of Graz University of Technology (since 2008). ln 2011, he had the pleasure to visit Mendeley Ltd as a Marie Curie Research Fellow working on machine learning and information retrieval in academic knowledge bases. Research fields are in applied machine learning, data science and information retrieval and NLP.