Gertjan
De Mulder — Researcher & Engineer
I work at the intersection of knowledge graphs, semantic web, and decentralized data — building systems that make information legible to both people and machines.
Semantic Web & Knowledge Graph Research at Ghent University (IDLab).
My research focuses on how knowledge can be represented, connected, queried, and verified across the web — using standards like RDF, SPARQL, DID, VC, and Solid to give people real control over their own data.
I'm interested in the rough edges where theory meets practice: user-controlled data sharing, identity that survives platform churn, tooling that makes semantic technology approachable for people who don't want to read a W3C spec on a Tuesday night.
Focus areas.
Knowledge Graphs
Modeling, mapping, and querying structured knowledge at scale across heterogeneous sources.
Semantic Web
RDF, SPARQL, ontologies — turning the web into a substrate machines can reason over.
Decentralized Data Sharing
Combining decentralized technologies to enable cross-organizational data sharing possibilities.
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