Focus Period Halmstad University 2026
Full Professor
Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (Germany)
Myra Spiliopoulou is a Full Professor of Business Informatics and Head of the Knowledge Management & Discovery Lab (KMD) Lab at the Faculty of Computer Science, at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany. Since 2018, she is an eviewer for the DFG, and since 2025, she is also an evaluator for their new program “AI Initiative,” which is intended for the prominent Emmy Noether Program applicants. In 2025, she was one of the PC Chairs of the 2025 Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), in 2024, she was one of the Journal Track Chairs of the 2024 ECML PKDD, and in 2023, she was PC Chair for the IEEE 36th Int. Symposium on Computer Based Medical Systems. For the past five years, she has been Action editor for the Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery (DAMI) journal of Springer Nature. She has been the coordinator for the data science Master’s program in Data & Knowledge Engineering at OVGU since 2005.