Simone Braun studied Media Systems at the Bauhaus-University Weimar with focus on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). Since December 2005 she is a research associate at FZI in the research group Information Process Engineering. She is working in the team of Prof. Rudi Studer and the team of Prof. Peter Lockemann within the competence areas Knowledge & Learning and Semantic Technologies. She is further a PhD student of Prof. Rudi Studer.

Her main research interest is collaboration and informal learning support with semantic technologies with focus on collaborative ontology development under special consideration of social aspects.

Within the German BMBF-funded project Im Wissensnetz (“In the Knowledge Web”), she has been investigating how to transfer approaches of (business-oriented) knowledge management and work-integrated learning on demand to scientific working processes under special consideration of informal learning processes and social relationships.

She is further involved in the development of SOBOLEO. SOBOLEO is a tool that combines social semantic bookmarking with collaborative lightweight ontology development. It supports the process of ontology maturing (cf. „Ontology Maturing: a Collaborative Web 2.0 Approach to Ontology Engineering“).

In other projects she worked on transferring the concept of work-integrated learning on demand into future releases of SAP ERP software. She was also involved in the conceptualization of a knowledge management strategy for a large German automotive manufacturer.

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