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Prof. Dr. Anika Groß

Database Systems

Research 

• Projects
  • AgriRestore: Ecosystem and landscape restoration across spatial and temporal scales to enhance biodiversity and climate resilience in agricultural landscapes (project description abstract) funded by German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • MeineWaldKI: AI-based monitoring and analysis of the development of the ecological condition of forests funded by Saxony-Anhalt Science Research and Innovation (EFRE, funded by the European Union)
  • DigiTwin4AgroDiv: Digital twin of agricultural landscapes to preserve agrodiversity in Saxony-Anhalt funded by Saxony-Anhalt Science Research and Innovation (EFRE, funded by the European Union)
  • Development of a digital twin for the lithium value chain funded by German Lithium Institute (ITEL)
• Data management, data integration, big data and data science analyses in various domains such as medicine, biology, environmental sciences, material sciences
• Temporal graphs, knowledge graphs, ontologies, semantic annotations, ontology matching/alignment, entity resolution, reuse and evolution of ontologies and knowledge graphs, scientific workflows

Publications

• Google Scholar
• Computer science bibliography: DBLP

Teaching

• Winter Term 2026/2027: Modern Database Concepts, Database systems
• previous semesters below

HSA-Committees / roles

• Member of the faculty council
• Member of the board of examiners
• Member of the Working Group on Research Data Management
• Substitute member of the commission for research

Short CV

• since 2019: Professor for Database Systems and Programming at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, in Köthen / Sachsen-Anhalt
• 2018: Data Scientist in strategic research and development on E-mobility at Daimler AG with Ferchau Engineering GmbH, Stuttgart Automotive
• 2014 - 2017: PostDoc at the Database Group, Universität Leipzig (more information)
• 2014: Graduation - Dr. rer. nat., Universität Leipzig
• 2008 - 2013: Research assistant at the Database Group and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Bioinformatics (IZBI), Universität Leipzig
• 2007: Diploma in Bioinformatics, MLU Halle-Wittenberg

Memberships / Chair

• Executive Committee of the GI group Database Systems (GI-Fachgruppe Datenbanksysteme)
• Fellow Institute for Technologies and Economics of Lithium (ITEL)
• Member of the ecoweaver team
• Co-Chair: FGDB-Workshop @ LWDA 2018 - Workshop on Large-Scale Data Management and Processing - Applications in Research and Industry
• Co-Chair: BigDS@BTW 2017, 2019 - Workshop on Big (and Small) Data in Science and Humanities
• PC Member and reviewer for different international conferences, workshops and journals: e.g., Bioinformatics, PLOS One, Journal of Biomedical Semantics (JBMS), Journal of Web Semantics (JWS), Semantic Web Journal (SWJ), DILS 2018, VOILA@ISWC, DINA@ICDM, Datenbank-Spektrum, BTW 2021/2023

Teaching (previous semesters)

• Database Systems: summer term 2020-2025
• Cloud and Big Data Management: summer term 2020 - 2024
• Modern Database Concepts: winter term 2020/2021 - 2025/2026
• Databases and Application Programming: winter term 2020/2021, 2022/2023 - 2025/2026
• Project Data Science: summer term 2020, 2021, 2024, winter term 2021/2022, 2023/2024, 2024/2025
• Programming and Modeling: 2021/2022, 2022/2023
• Basic architectures - Databases: 2021/2022
• Databases and Applications: summer term 2023, 2025

• Spatio-Temporal Knowledge Graphs: Approaches and Challenges / Plamper, Philipp. - Enthalten in: Störl, Uta. Proceedings of the 36th GI-Workshop Grundlagen von Datenbanken (2025), S.1-9
• An overview of current ontologies for interdisciplinary ecosystem, biodiversity and agricultural research / Plamper, Philipp. - Enthalten in: Datenbanksysteme für Business, Technologie und Web - Workshopband (BTW 2025), Bd. 3659 (2025), S.133-150
• Urinary Bladder Monitoring with a Wearable Device Based on Bioimpedance Measurements and Machine Learning / Fechner, Pascal. - Enthalten in: Cannataro, Mario. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (2024), S.3206-3209
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