Andrea Schimmenti is a researcher at the University of Bologna, where he completed a PhD in Cultural Heritage in the Digital Ecosystem (2026), a master's degree in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge, and a bachelor's degree in Classical Philology. His research addresses the extraction and generation of Knowledge Graphs from cultural heritage texts, using Large Language Models and ontological modelling. He is currently a collaborator on the INFINITY project (Horizon Europe, GA 101233051) and is affiliated with the BOLDH (/DH.ARC) research centre and the DHLab.
He conducted a research visit at the DHLab of the KNAW Humanities Cluster in Amsterdam (2023–2024), working on Knowledge Graph extraction methodologies and the TRIFECTA project. Since 2022 he has been a teaching tutor for Web Technologies at DISI. He co-organised the international seminar Building Knowledge Landscapes (Bologna, 2024) and served as Publicity Chair at EKAW 2024. He received the first prize at HackaLOD 2024 (Amsterdam).
His publications appear in the Journal of Documentation, Umanistica Digitale, and the proceedings of international conferences including AIUCD, LDK, IRCDL, and LREC. He has carried out peer review for over fifty contributions to journals and conferences in the field, including the Semantic Web Journal, Journal of Web Semantics, EKAW, ISWC, and ESWC.
