Alessandro Adamou is a Research fellow at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland, Galway. He conducts research and technology development in Linked Data infrastructures, data integration and Digital Humanities.

Previously, Alessandro worked as a Research Associate at the Knowledge Media Institute of The Open University, United Kingdom.

Alessandro obtained his PhD degree in Computer Science at University of Bologna in 2013, with a thesis titled An architecture for scaling ontology networks.

During his Ph.D work he also worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies at the National Research Council (ISTC-CNR) in Rome, Italy.

Alessandro is a founding PPMC member of the Apache Stanbol software project.