Dr. Firas Al Laban holds a PhD in Computer Science (specializing in Knowledge Management Systems), a Master's degree in Software Engineering, and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Damascus University.

During his tenure as a lecturer at various universities, he taught numerous Computer Science and Mathematics courses and supervised several student projects. Concurrently with his teaching responsibilities, he actively participated in multiple research projects, leading to publications and contributions at various international conferences.

Since June 2019, he has been a member of the scientific staff at the Chair for Complex Multimedia in the Computer Science Department at Potsdam University.

• Since March 2023, he has been part of the scientific staff on the NFDIxCS Project.
• Until the end of 2022, he was involved in the OpenU Project.

• Bolstering Open Science Infrastructures
• Research data & software management
• Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs

• Al Laban, F. A., Bernoth, J., Goedicke, M., Lucke, U., Striewe, M., Wieder, P., & Yahyapour, R. (2023, September 13). Establishing the Research Data Management Container NFDIxCS. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8320703
• Al Laban, F., Reger, M., Lucke, U. (2022). Closing the Policy Gap in the Academic Bridge. Educ. Sci. 2022, 12, 930. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12120930
• Al Laban, F., Engel, K., Knoth, A., Lucke, U. (2022). Issues of Policy and Strategy for International Collaboration between European HEIs. In: Desnos, J.F., Yahyapour, R., Vogl, R. (Hg.), Proc. 28th International Congress of European University Information Systems (EUNIS 2022), EPiC Series in Computing, Vol. 86 (pp. 149–158). https://doi.org/10.29007/5sxz
• Al Laban, F., Chabi, M., Abdullahi, S. (2015). An Approach to Integrate Ontologies of Open Educational Resources in Knowledge-Based Management Systems. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1109235
• Syam, M., Al Laban, F. (2014). The Teacher’s Role in Merging the Students with Special Needs in the Educational Process, Journal of Teaching and Education, Vol.3(2), (pp 357–364). https://www.universitypublications.net/jte/0302/html/V4G268.xml
• Syam, M., Al Laban, F. (2013). The Role of Vocational and Technical Education in Reducing Inflation in The Number of Students Enrolled at Qatar University, Journal of Teaching and Education, Vol. 2(4), (pp. 171–177). http://www.universitypublications.net/jte/0204/html/M3K458.xml
• Al Laban, F., Syam, M. (2013). How Does Integrating Technologies Stimulate and Activate Learners in Large Undergraduate Mathematic Classes? Center for Higher Education Studies; Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 3.0 (pp. 249–255). http://servere.csvs.cz/konference/disco2013/Disco2013-sbornik.pdf
• Al Laban, F. (2012). Using Description Logics and extensions of Description Logics to bridge P2P ontologies. In IEEE Xplore (Vol. 1, pp. 6–11). IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6269216
• Semmar, N., Essafi, H., Jaoua, A., Zayan, A., Hammami, H., & Laban, F. (2010). Using a cross-language information retrieval approach to improve Computer-Aided Translation performance. https://doi.org/10.1109/isda.2010.5687173
• Al-Jaoua, A., Al'Jaam, J., Hammami, H., Ferjani, F., Laban, F., Sammar, N., Essafi, H., & Elloumi, S. (2010). Financial events detection by conceptual news categorization. https://doi.org/10.1109/isda.2010.5687040
• Al-Jaoua, A., AlJa'am, J., Hammami, H., Ferjani, F., Laban, F., Semmar, N., Essafi, H., & Elloumi, S. (2010). Conceptual ascendant feature extraction of a financial corpus. https://doi.org/10.1109/pic.2010.5687877
• Al Laban, F., Kabil , B., & Sandoq, Z. (2009). Mapping Heterogeneous Ontologies through Ontology Algebra View. Damascus University Journal for BASIC SCIENCES , 25(2), 47–64. https://damascusuniversity.edu.sy/mag/asasy/images/stories/47-64e.pdf