Dr. Oliver Koepler

Oliver Koepler studied chemistry at the University of Kiel. After his diploma he moved to the TU Braunschweig where he received his PhD in the field of natural product synthesis in organic chemistry. Inspired by the thrilling opportunities of digitization in chemistry, Oliver Koepler came to TIB, where he started developing digital digital libraries, e-infrastructures and research data management services for chemistry. His work included text-mining and chemical entitity recognition for document discovery, metadata standards, knowledge management systems, and interactive, graphical retrieval processes for research data. Since 2019 Oliver Koepler is head of the Lab Linked Scientific Knowledge focussing on knowledge engineering, ontologies and the development of services for research data management. He has built up the chemistry consortium NFDI4Chem within the german national research data infrastructure which he leads together with Christoph Steinbeck since October 2020.