Curriculum Vitae

Matthias Samwald

Born on the 28th of April, 1982, in Neunkirchen, Lower Austria

Education and work

1 / 2008 -	Work at the Semantic Web Company, Austria
10 / 2007 -	Work at DERI, Galway, Ireland.
6 / 2007 - 9 / 2007	Development for Science Commons, MIT, Cambridge, USA. Mentor: Alan Ruttenberg, PhD. Sponsored by Google.
4 / 2007 - 7 / 2007	Work at the Yale Center for Medical Informatics, New Haven, USA. Mentor: Prof. Kei-Hoi Cheung, PhD.
10 / 2006 -	Invited expert of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), participant in the Semantic Web Health Care and Life Science Interest Group of the W3C
2006 -	Adviser in the field of life sciences for the Semantic Web School Austria
2006 -	Programmer, designer and content manager at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution & Cognition Research, Altenberg, Austria
2005 -	PhD thesis at the Core Unit for Medical Statistics and Informatics, Section on Medical Expert and Knowledge-Based Systems. Mentor: Univ. Prof. Klaus-Peter Adlassnig, PhD, MSc.
2005	Master thesis at the Austrian Center for Brain Research, division of biochemistry and molecular biology, group for cellular neurophysiology. Mentor: MD Ao. Univ. Prof. Sigismund Huck. Finished on May 2005 with honors.
2000 - 2005	Study of Biology at the University of Vienna. Focus on neurobiology.
2000	Graduation (Matura) with honors.
1992 - 2000	BRG Gröhrmühlgasse in Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria. Focus on natural sciences.
1988 - 1992	Primary School in Pottschach, Lower Austria

Publications and Talks

RUTTENBERG A, CLARK T, BUG W, SAMWALD M, BODENREIDER O, CHEN H, DOHERTY D, FORSBERG K, GAO Y, KASHYAP V, KINOSHITA J, LUCIANO J, MARSHALL MS, OGBUJI C, REES J, STEPHENS S, WONG GT, WU E, ZACCAGNINI D, HONGSERMEIER T, NEUMANN E, HERMAN I, CHEUNG KH (2007) Advancing translational research with the Semantic Web. BMC Bioinformatics. 2007 May 9;8 Suppl 3:S2

SAMWALD M, ADLASSNIG KP (2006) An OWL ontology for the life sciences based on foundational ontologies and novel design patterns: bio-zen submitted to the Journal of Web Semantics

SAMWALD M, RUTTENBERG A (2006) Representation and resolution of digital resources on the semantic web – an ontology-based approach presented at the Workshop for W3C Semantic Web Health Care & Life Sciences, part of the 5th international Semantic Web Conference 2006, Athens, GA, USA - abstract demo

SAMWALD M, HINTERLEITNER I, ADLASSNIG KP (2006) Semantic web technology for database integration in neuroscience. FENS Forum Abstracts, vol. 3, 2006, Vienna, Austria

SAMWALD M (2006) Introducing the bio-zen Framework. Informal talk at the BioPAX meeting 2006, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA

SAMWALD M (2006) Classes Versus Individuals: Fundamental Design Issues for Ontologies on the Biomedical Semantic Web. Workshop on Foundations of Clinical Terminologies and Classifications in Proceedings of the European Federation for Medical Informatics, Special Topic Conference, Timisoara, Romania (download .pdf)

SAMWALD M, ADLASSNIG KP (2005) Bringing Neuroscience to the Semantic Web: The Semantic Synapse Project. Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies & Internet Commerce (IAWTIC 2005), Vienna, Austria

SAMWALD M (2005) Weaving the Biomedical Semantic Web: Accelerating scientific progress by semantic web technology. Workshop on Semantic Interoperability and Datamining in Biomedicine, Tihany, Hungary (download .ppt)

Master theses (supervised by Matthias Samwald and Klaus-Peter Adlassnig)

SCHWARZ M (2006) Accelerating Progress in Biomedical Science through the Development of a Semantic Web Portal

HINTERLEITNER I (2006) Developing Ontologies for the Biomedical Semantic Web

Main qualifications in the field of biomedicine

Neuroscience / neurobiology, organismal biology, physiology.

Experimental electrophysiology: cellular electrophysiology, extracellular recording, intracellular recording (including in-vivo techniques), patch clamp recording.

Microscopy: classical light microscopical techniques, fluorescence microscopy, confocal laser scanning microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, X-ray microanalysis. Histological techniques: specimen preparation for LM and EM, microtomy and ultramicrotomy, cryotechniques.

Cell culture techniques, preparation and primary culture of neuronal cells.

Analytical chemistry and molecular biology: standard analytical techniques, radioassays, enantioselective HPLC, immunanalytical chemistry.

Main qualifications in the field of informatics

Semantic web (RDF/OWL)

Biological and medical databases

Digital content management and webdesign

Software development (Python, PHP, Java)

Interests

Neuroscience, cognitive science, biology, systems biology, constructivism, applied ontology, applied ethics, converging technologies, experimental electronic music. Open source, open science, open society.

And some other things.

Contact: samwald (at) neuroscientific.net