Oya Deniz Beyan is a Professor of Medical Informatics at the Medical Faculty of the University of Cologne and is Co-Director of the Medical Data Integration Center (MeDIC) at the University Hospital of Cologne. Her research concerns data reusability and FAIR data management, distributed analytics on sensitive data, and data-driven transformation in medicine. Her area of expertise is in semantic web technologies and their application in healthcare and life sciences, emphasising clinical decision support, patient empowerment, research data management, and ethical and social challenges of data. Her research interests and expertise lie in Data-Driven Medicine, Research and Registry Data Repositories, Health Care Standards, and Knowledge Graphs for Biomedicine. Her background research has been with Semantic Web Technologies and FAIR Data Management: FAIR Data Workflows and FAIR Data Sharing. She has a leading research presence in Distributed Data Analytics, Machine Learning in Biomedical Data, and Knowledge Representation.