Dr. Laura Daniele is a scientist in the area of ontology engineering and semantic technologies at TNO, where she leads the research activities on semantic interoperability. She graduated in Electronic Engineering from the University of Cagliari (Italy) and developed her MSc thesis at the University of Twente (NL) by means of the European Socrates/Erasmus program. In 2011, she obtained her PhD from the University of Twente on model-driven development of context-aware mobile applications. Since 2011 she works at TNO. Her interest is to provide data integration solutions to enable semantic interoperability among various organizations that need to share data, but use different terminologies, standards and/or heterogeneous IT systems. Her research focuses on the application of semantic technologies, especially in the Internet of Things. Laura has developed a number of ontologies to enable semantic interoperability in several domains (http://ontology.tno.nl/), and is the creator of the SAREF ontology for the European Commission and standardized by ETSI (www.ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news-redirect/57284). Laura serves as expert in ETSI SmartM2M on standardization of semantics and has been the leader of the ETSI Specialist Task Force 513 that resulted in the extension of SAREF to the Energy, Environment and Building domains. She also represents TNO in the Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI) WG03 on IoT standardization. She is active in various European research projects and has authored many international publications. Laura also serves as Program Committee member for major conferences and journals in the Semantic Web area.
