This week, Rory is joined by Dr. Nick Garabedian, Group Leader of 'Linked Tribological Data', at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany!

To start off this fascinating and insightful conversation, Nick gives us a high level overview of the field of Tribology, and tells us how Karlsruhe Institute of Technology complements and facilitates his work, enabling him and many other researchers to carry out dedicated work in Applied Materials Science. 

Nick shares how he first got involved with FAIR data, and how his work developed as he began incorporating ontologies in order to bridge the gap between vocabularies, electronic lab notebooks and machine learning models. Rory and Nick discuss how this initial project then developed into a formal project funded by the Helmholz MetaData Collaboration. Nick also talks about some of the challenges the team faces when working with ontologies. 

Both Nick and Rory will be at the Helmholz Metadata Collaboration Conference 2022! Sign up for a chance to meet them and learn more about Nick's work. 

Nick talks about the solution they have developed and began testing, as well as its capabilities and potential applications. With a focus on solutions that are easy for wet-lab researchers to utilize with minimum barriers, Nick goes on to share how his work aims to bridge the divide between computationalists and experimentalists. Join us for the full conversation!