Dr. Miriam Fernandez

Senior Research Fellow

Dr Miriam Fernandez is a Senior Research Fellow at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), Open University, and a senior member of KMi's Social Data Science and OUAnalyse research groups. Before joining KMi, she was research associate at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain and software engineer at Google Zurich, Switzerland. Her research is at the intersection of the Web Science (WS) and Semantic Web communities (SW), where she has contributed with more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in various leading conferences and journals. She has extensive expertise in leading EU and national projects and a proven track record of high-quality research and grant winning. She frequently participates in organising committees and editorial boards of the top SW and WS conferences, recently being program co-chair of the International Semantic Web conference in 2017 and the Extended Semantic Web Conference in 2019, and serving as editor for the Journal of Web Semantics. Dr. Fernandez is the EDI lead and Athena SWAN champion for KMi, leading key initiatives to increase equality diversity in higher education.