Werner Ceusters

Director, Ontology Research Group (ORG)

New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences

Buffalo, New York, USA

e-mail: ceusters-at-buffalo.edu

Werner Ceusters studied medicine, neuro-psychiatry, informatics and knowledge engineering in Belgium. Since 1993, he has been involved in numerous national and European research projects in the area of Electronic Health Records, Natural Language Understanding and Ontology. Prior to coming to Buffalo, he was Executive Director of the European Centre for Ontological Research at Saarland University, Germany. He is currently Health Sciences Professor connected to the Psychiatry Department of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, SUNY at Buffalo NY, Director of the Ontology Research Group of the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, and coordinator of Bioinformatics for the Health Science Faculties at UB.

See also: http://www.org.buffalo.edu/RTU/ceusters_vita.html

Professor Ceusters' invited talk on "Realism-based Change Management for Quality Assurance in Ontologies and Data Repositories" for the OntologyMeasurementEvaluation mini-series is at: ConferenceCall_2007_01_11