Christopher Brewster (C.A.W.)

Dr. Christopher Brewster is Professor of the Application of Emerging Technologies at Maastricht University, as well as being a Senior Scientist in the Data Science group of TNO. At Maastricht, he is the PI of the H2020 DiTECT (2020-23) project, and the Horizon Europe EU Farmbook project. At TNO, he is currently principal investigator on the Ploutos and Quantifarm projects. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Sheffield on the topic of automated ontology learning from texts. His research interests include Semantic Technologies, Open and Linked Data, interoperability architectures and Data Governance. He has focussed on food and agriculture as an application domain for many years, and has a particular concern for the environmental impact of the agrifood system. He has published over 70 papers in conferences and journals, and organised many workshops. Further details http://www.cbrewster.com