About Me

In 2013, I obtained a PhD in computer science with a dissertation entitled "Grounding Ontologies with Social Processes and Natural Language". In my thesis, I investigated the role of the exchange of natural language definitions of concepts (called glosses) in the social interactions that take place when a community of stakeholders is constructing ontologies collaboratively. Before that, I obtained a BSc in Applied Computer Science at Hogeschool Gent (University College Gent) in 2005, a BSc in Computer Science and a Msc in Applied Sciences and Engineering: Computer Science at the VUB in 2007 and 2009 respectively. I started working at STARLab as a developer in 2007. You can find more information about my education and work experience on my LinkedIn page.

My research interests include: Ontology Management, Knowledge Management, Ontology Engineering, Ontology Reuse, Ontology Languages (RDFS, OWL, etc.) and Semantic Wikis. I'm also interested in the latest developments concerning Web 2.0.

Christophe is currently working as a professor at the University of Liège and is affiliated with the VUB's WISE lab.