is Full Professor in Information Analysis and Information Retrieval at the Department of Communication, Aalborg University Copenhagen, where he is co-lead of the Purposeful Technology Lab research group. Birger has a passion for research that involves the activities, processes and experiences arising in the meeting between users, information, and information systems in a given context – with the goal of optimising these to empower users in their task and problem solving. His main research interests include Information Retrieval (IR), structured documents in IR, XML IR and user interaction, domain specific search, understanding user intents and exploiting context in IR, as well as Informetrics/Bibliometrics, citation analysis and quantitative research evaluation – and recently Big Data and Humanities, where he investigates the new possibilities and challenges arising from the application of large scale data collection and analysis techniques to Humanities research. In addition, he is an active consultant carrying out research-based scientometric evaluations for universities and governmental agencies.

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