Short Bio

Dr. Pierre Larmande is researcher at IRD, the French Public Research Institute for Sustainable Development. Now located at DIADE Unit in Montpellier. His main research interests are Data integration, Semantic Web, plant-ontologies, semantic data linking, Knowledge management and Big Data for plant genomics. He obtained PhD in Informatics from the university of Montpellier in 2007 (about federated plant data integration approaches applied to agronomy) and recently obtained the habilitation to conduct research supervision (HDR) in 2020. He coordinated the Oryza Tag Line phenotypic rice mutant database and was involved in the OrygenesDB T-DNA rice database. Between 2013 and 2017 he led the data integration group at the Institute of Computational Biology (IBC). Dr. Larmande is the lead PI of the Agronomic Linked Data project (AgroLD), which is a Knowledge Graph database that consists of data integrated from a variety of plant resources and ontologies. He is the co-PI of the Gigwa project ( Genotype Investigator for Genome Wide Analyses ) is a web application developed to manage genomic and genotyping data from NGS analysis. He is a member of several workshops and conference program committees related to life sciences and informatics such as SWAT4LS and DILS. He was the chair of the Semantics for Biodiversity workshop S4BIODIV 2013 at the ESWC 2013. He was co-chair of the PhenoHarmonIS workshops (Semantics for Harmonization and Integration of Phenotypic and Agronomic Data) 2014, 2016, 2018 editions.