Prof. Dr. Michael Granitzer holds the Chair of Data Science at University of Passau since 2017 and was full professor for Media Computer Science at the University of Passau since 2012. His research interest is on applied machine learning, web information retrieval and natural language processing. He published over 300 mostly peer-reviewed publications including journal publications, book chapters and books in the above-mentioned fields. Previously, he was Scientific Director of the applied research centern “Know-Center” in Graz and assistant professor at the Knowledge Technology Institute of Graz University of Technology . He managed several nationally funded and European research projects on topics like federated search and recommender systems, linked open data, and information retrieval. Besides his research, he actively supports young innovators and startups in startup programs at the University of Passau. Currently, he is the coordinator of the Horizon Europe project “OpenWebSearch.eu”.