Demonstrations of SciLake tools through pilot case studies

10 March 2026, 10:20-11:20 CET

The demonstrations session will showcase SciLake’s tools in action, illustrating how the project’s approach can turn fragmented scientific information into usable, interoperable knowledge. Through a series of pilot case studies spanning energy planning, cancer research, transportation research, and neuroscience, the presenters will walk participants through real-world workflows, showing how SciLake supports the creation, linking, and exploration of Scientific Knowledge Graphs (SKGs) and how these capabilities translate into practical benefits such as faster discovery, or better querying and navigation of evidence across different domains.

Enriching scientific knowledge graphs with geospatial metadata: toward mapping the energy research landscape

Jakob Rager, HES-SO Valais-Wallis (HEVS)

Prof. Dr. Jakob Rager is a transdisciplinary industrial research engineer with extensive experience at the intersection of open science and energy in system engineering. He has made significant contributions to various projects aimed at advancing open access and open-source solutions in the energy sector with Hotmaps, EnerMaps, EraNet OpenGIS4ET (CitiWatts) and SciLake based on FAIR data.

From graph queries to network discovery: revealing hidden knowledge in cancer research

Konstantinos Kardamiliotis, INAB/CERTH

Konstantinos Kardamiliotis is a biologist and PhD Student at the Institute of Applied Biosciences at CERTH, the Center for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece. His research interests include computational biology and bioinformatics analysis of immunogenetics data.

Discovering connections in maritime transport research with enriched Scientific Knowledge Graphs

Afroditi Anagnostopoulou, HIT/CERTH

Dr Afroditi Anagnostopoulou is a Research Director at the Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT) / Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), overseeing the “Economic and Social Impacts of Transport Systems” laboratory. She is also Head of the Unit on “Transport Economics and Environment, Maritime and Air Transport” at HIT, and serves as the Gateway Advisor of Transport for Open Research Europe.

Exploring an integrated neuroscience SKG: interlinked outputs, shared entities, and impact indicators

Archana Golla, University of Oslo

Archana Golla (PhD) is a researcher at the Neural Systems Laboratory, University of Oslo. Her work centers on data curation within the EBRAINS research infrastructure (www.ebrains.eu), where she collaborates with researchers to ensure that neuroscience data are shared optimally, FAIRly, and responsibly. She serves as a neuroscience domain expert in the SciLake project, working with knowledge management experts to develop an integrative scientific knowledge graph for neuroscience.

Discovery and complex querying for Cooperative Connected Automated Mobility research

Athanasios Ballis, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS)

Athanasios Ballis received his Diploma from the Computer Engineer and Informatics Department from the University of Patras (2005), and his MSc in Informatics of Life Science (2009) from the same University, publishing the thesis entitled “Upgrade of a database of facial emotional expressions and creation of a database management system”. He has been a research associate in several Organizations acquiring in parallel moderate working experience as a web developer. He has been cooperating with ICCS since January 2019 as a scientific project manager in the ITS/CCAM domain involved in several related projects. He has been a member of the Greek Technical Chamber since 2006.

With technology-provider partners:

César Parra Rojas, SIRIS Academic

César is a data scientist and consultant at SIRIS Academic. He specialises in data-driven thematic analyses of research & innovation ecosystems, particularly in the biomedical sector, by leveraging natural language processing and text mining techniques applied to scholarly data.

Serafeim Chatzopoulos, Athena Research Center

Serafeim Chatzopoulos (PhD) is a research associate in the Information Management Systems Institute (IMSI) of the ATHENA Research Center. He has extensive experience in EU and national research projects related to Open Science and scholarly research infrastructures. His research pursuits span various domains, including scientometrics and data mining, with a particular focus on scholarly knowledge graphs and big data management.

Daan de Graaf, Eindhoven University of Technology

Daan is a PhD candidate in the Database Group at TU Eindhoven. His research focuses on high-performance query processing in databases, and execution of graph algorithms in particular. He is the author of the GraphAlg programming language, a domain-specific language for graph algorithms designed to be embedded into databases.He is also one of the main developers of the AvantGraph graph query engine.

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