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Prof. Dr. Konrad Förstner

Dr. rer. nat.
Faculty of Information Science and Communication Studies

Institute of Information Science

Prof. Dr. Konrad Förstner

Campus Südstadt
Claudiusstraße 1
50678 Köln
Mailing address


  • Phone: +49 221-8275-3824

Office hours


Please feel free to contact me in case you would like to talk to me.

Teaching disciplines

  • Data and Information Literacy

Research fields

  • Data Science
  • Bioinformatics
  • Text-Mining
  • Knowledge Graphs
  • Wohltmann, Mareike; Bock, Sina; Vandendorpe, Justine; Müller, Rabea; Lindstädt, Birte; Blümm, Mirjam; Förstner, Konrad (2026): RDMTraining4NFDI Proposal Integration Phase: Research Data Management Training for the German National Research Data Infrastructure. : Zenodo . (Open Access)https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18428575https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16927330
  • Wohltmann, Mareike; Bock, Sina; Vandendorpe, Justine; Müller, Rabea; Lindstädt, Birte; Blümm, Mirjam; Förstner, Konrad (2025): RDMTraining4NFDI Proposal Integration Phase: Research Data Management Training for the German National Research Data Infrastructure. : Zenodo . (Open Access)https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16927331https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16927330
  • Wohltmann, Mareike; Bock, Sina; Blümm, Mirjam; Vandendorpe, Justine; Lindstädt, Birte; Müller, Rabea; Förstner, Konrad (2025): Lost in Training? RDMTraining4NFDI - a base service for modular certified training. In: 2nd Conference on Research Data Infrastructure (CoRDI); Aachen, Germany; 26.08.-28.08.2025. (Open Access)https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.16736280
  • Müller, Rabea; Blümm, Mirjam; Lindstädt, Birte; Förstner, Konrad (2025): RDMTraining4NFDI - Consolidating Training of Research Data Management Skills in the NFDI. In: 1st Base4NFDI User Conference (UC4B2024); Berlin, Germany; 20.11.-21.11.2024. (Open Access)https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14883233
  • Fritsch, Katharina; Blümm, Mirjam; Bock, Sina; Arning, Ursula; Förstner, Konrad (2024): Strategien zur Integration von FDM im Studium – Basiskurs "Forschungsdatenmanagement" an der TH Köln. (Open Access)https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.10687300
  • Gladow, Nadine; Hollmann, Claudia; Weirather, Johannes; Ding, Xin; Burkard, Matthias; Uehlein, Sabrina; Bharti, Richa; Förstner, Konrad; Kerkau, Thomas; Beyersdorf, Niklas; Frantz, Stefan; Ramos, Gustavo; Hofmann, Ulrich (2024): Role of CD4⁺ T-Cells for Regulating Splenic Myelopoiesis and Monocyte Differentiation after Experimental Myocardial Infarction. In: Basic Research in Cardiology : Official Journal of the German Cardiac Society. (Open Access)https://doi.org/10.1007/s00395-024-01035-3
  • Seidlmayer, Eva; Melnychuk, Tetyana; Galke, Lukas; Kühnel, Lisa; Tochtermann, Klaus; Schultz, Carsten; Förstner, Konrad (2024): Research Topic Displacement and the Lack of Interdisciplinarity : Lessons from the Scientific Response to COVID-19. In: Scientometrics. (Open Access)https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-05132-x
  • Blümm, Mirjam; Fritsch, Katharina; Bock, Sina; Hackenbuchner, Janiça; Arning, Ursula; Förstner, Konrad (2024): FDM@Studium.nrw Blended-Learning-Basiskurs „Forschungsdatenmanagement" der TH Köln. (Open Access)https://bibliografie.th-koeln.de/servlets/DozBibEntryServlet?mode=show&id=bibthk_mods_00016147
  • Elhossary, Muhammad; Förstner, Konrad (2024): InteractOA: Showcasing the representation of knowledge from scientific literature in Wikidata. In: Semantic Web. Vol. 15, S. 2381 - 2393. (peer-reviewed/Open Access)https://doi.org/10.3233/SW-243685
  • Stegemann, Jessica; Kläre, Christina; Arning, Ursula; Blümm, Mirjam; Fingerhuth, Matthias; Förstner, Konrad; Fritsch, Katharina; Hackenbuchner, Janiça; Heine, Angela; Kaiser, Kerstin; Posny, Ella Sofie; Rathmann, Torsten; Rehwald, Stephanie; Schreyer, Lioba; Stadler, Uwe (2023): Discover FDM – Gemeinsam Kompetenzen für Forschungsdatenmanagement von Studierenden fördern : Das Projekt FDM@Studium.nrw. In: o-bib : Das offene Bibliotheksjournal. Vol. 10, S. 1 - 8. (Open Access)https://doi.org/10.5282/O-BIB/5979
Since 2018 Professor for Data and Information Literacy at the TH Köln – University of Applied Sciences and Head of Data Science and Services at ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences
2016 - 2018 Acting Head of the Core Unit Systems Medicine, University/Clinic of Würzburg
2013 - 2018 Head of Bioinformatics, Core Unit Systems Medicine, University/Clinic of Würzburg
2011 - 2013 Postdoc in the groups of Jörg Vogel and Cynthia Sharma, Institute of Molecular Infection Biology and Research Center for Infectious Diseases, University of Würzburg
2009 - 2011 Entrepreneurial and freelancing work, Darmstadt/Berlin
2004 - 2009 PhD (Bioinformatics/Computational biology) in the group of Peer Bork, EMBL, Heidelberg
1999 - 2004 Studies of Biochemistry and Computer Science, University of Greifswald, including stays in Switzerland and USA

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