Birger Larsen

Birger Larsen is Full Professor at The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University, Denmark and is head of the research group on Science, Policy and Information Science.

Birger is member of the Supervisory Board in the ODECO project as replacement representative from Aalborg University in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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, information behaviour, domain specific search, understanding user intents and exploiting context in IR – all of these with a view to inform interaction design and user experience (UX), 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.

Birger has extensive experience from international (mainly EU) and national projects where he has held Working Group Chairmanships, including: the ACUMEN EU FP7 project (2011-2013) that investigated new ways of assessing individual researchers, the PROMISE EU FP7 Network of Excellence (2012-2013), that provided a virtual laboratory for conducting participative research and experimentation on complex information systems, the Danish LARM project (2010-2014) that built a large-scale humanities research infrastructure for radio and auditory culture research, the Danish CoSound project (2012-2016) that investigates how to combine user generated and automatically extracted analysis of audio streams, the Danish ReACT project (2016-2021) that defines a detailed model for the study of the wider societal impact of Humanities research, the Danish Community Drive project (2018-2021) that teaches children and young people to transform cities through community and data-driven methods, as well as research networks such as the EU COST MUMIA network (2010-2014) which investigated multifaceted access to patent information.

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