Lebenslauf und Publikationen Dr. Dilek Yargan

Dr. Dilek Yargan ist leitende Wissenschaftlerin im Team für ISE am FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz-Institut für Informationsinfrastruktur. Sie besitzt einen Bachelor of Science in Mathematik, einen Master of Science in Lehramt für Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften in der Sekundarstufe sowie einen Master of Arts in Philosophie. Ihre Promotion in Philosophie schloss sie mit einer Dissertation zum Thema „A Computational Ontological Model for Machine-Understandable Data in Artificial Intelligence“ ab.

Dr. Yargan war sowohl in der akademischen Forschung als auch in der Industrie als Ontologin und Datenwissenschaftlerin tätig. Zuletzt forschte sie als Postdoktorandin an der Universität Rostock im DFG-geförderten Projekt „Learning from Nature: Epistemological and Ontological Foundations of Biomimetics“. Ihre Forschungsinteressen umfassen Wissensrepräsentation und Schlussfolgerungen, angewandte Ontologie, angewandte Kategorientheorie, Logik und die Philosophie der künstlichen Intelligenz.

Ausbildung

• 2022 | Ph.D. In Philosophie, METU, Ankara, Türkei. 
  Dissertation: A Computational Ontological Model for Machine-Understandable Data in Artificial Intelligence
• 2015 | M.A. in Philosophie, METU, Ankara, Türkei. 
  Masterarbeit: A Philosophical Approach to Upper-Level Ontologies
• 2008 | M.S. in Lehramt für Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften in der Sekundarstufe, METU, Ankara, Türkei. 
  Projekt: High School Students’ Beliefs About Mathematics
• 2005 | B.S. in Mathematik, METU, Ankara, Türkei

Forschungserfahrung

• 10/2023 – 09/2025 | Wiss. Mitarbeiterin, DFG-Projekt “Learning from Nature: Epistemological and Ontological Foundations of Biomimetics”, Institut  für Philosophie, Universität Rostock
• 08/2014 – 08/2018 | Wiss. Mitarbeiterin, Laboratory for Computational Ontology, METU, Ankara, Türkei

Beruflicher Werdegang (Auszug)

• 12/2022 – 12/2023 | Projektleiterin, Manki Information Technologies LLC., Ankara, Türkei
• 02/2022 – 11/2022 | Data Scientist, Functor Information Technologies LLC., Ankara, Türkei
• 06/2020 – 02/2021 | Terminology Editor and Controller, Smart Cities Project, Universität Istanbul Technology Transfer Application and Research Center, Türkei
• 06/2018 – 01/2022 | Data Scientist, ENDEKSA LLC, Ankara, Türkei

Aufsätze in geprüften Zeitschriften

• Yargan, D. and Jansen, L., 2025, Terminological Resources for Biologically Inspired Design and Biomimetics: Evaluation of the Potential for Ontology Reuse, Biomimetics, 10(1), 39.[doi]
• Yargan, D., 2024, The Machine as an Autonomous Explanatory Agent, Felsefe Dünyası, (79), pp. 265-279.[doi]
• Yargan, D., 2021, Ayhan and Eren in Pursuit of Virtue: Child and Ethics in Light of Aristotelian Virtue Ethics (in Turkish), Arkhe-Logos, 11 (2), pp. 115-124. [link]
• Yargan, D., 2020, An Introduction to Description Logics (in Turkish), Beytulhikme, 10 (4), pp. 1303-1324. [doi]
• Yargan, D., 2020, Is Science Without Explanations Possible?, Arkhe-Logos, 9 (2), pp. 109-122. [link] 
  (Reappeared in Contemporary Issues in Philosophy: From Science to Gender, 2021, pp. 9-24.)
• Yargan, D., 2020, Philosophical Aspects of Building Upper-Level Ontologies (in Turkish), Kilikya Journal of Philosophy, (1), pp. 32-50. [link]
• Yargan, D., 2019, Formal Ontologies and Description Logics (in Turkish), Archives of Philosophy, pp. 271-281. [doi] 

Buchkapitel

• Yargan, D. and Birgül, O. G., 2025, The Theoretical Foundations of Mathematics (in Turkish), in Philosophy of Mathematics, (Ed. O. G. Birgül), Ankara: Doruk Yayınevi, pp. 311-342.
• Yargan, D. and Zambak, A. F., 2023, On Machine Creativity (in Turkish) in Labirent: Yapay Zeka Bir Devam mı Yoksa Çıkmaz mı?, (Ed. Ö. Derin), Kriter Yayınevi, pp.23-44.
• Yargan, D., 2023, On Functionality of Turkish National Health Data Dictionary (in Turkish) in Tıp Bilişimi III, İstanbul University Press, pp. 45-50. [doi]
• Yargan, D. and Zambak, A. F., 2022, Medical Ontologies in Tıp Bilişimi II, İstanbul University Press, pp. 43-67. [doi]
• Yargan, D. and Zambak, A. F., 2021, Medical Ontologies (in Turkish) in Tıp Bilişimi, İstanbul University Press, pp. 25-60. [doi] 

Aufsätze bei geprüften Konferenzen und Seminaren

• Yargan, D. and Jansen, L., Building a Biomimetics Core Ontology using OBO Foundry Principles, submitted to Ontology Showcase and Demonstrations Track co-located with co-located with the 15th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2025). [link]
• Yargan, D. and Jansen, L., Representing the Conceptual Design Process in Engineering Using IAO and OBI, submitted to Cognition And OntologieS (CAOS) Workshop co-located with the 15th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2025). [link]
• Jansen, L., and Yargan, D., Triggers and Bases: Extending BFO to Represent the Pahl–Beitz Framework for Working Principles, submitted to Perspectival Ontology Workshop on Entities that can be Realized (POWERs) 2025 Workshop co-located with the 15th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2025). [link]
• Yargan, D. and Jansen, L., 2024, Does Biomimetics Require a Unified Account of Function?, In Proceedings of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO)—Episode X: The Tukker Zomer of Ontology, and Satellite Events Co-Located with the 14th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems, Enschede, The Netherlands, July 15–19, 2024. [link]
• Yargan, D., 2018, Alleged Discovery in Big Data (in Turkish), In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Logic, May 9-11, 2018, Zonguldak, ISBN: 978-605-66311-4-6, pp.505-512.
• Yargan, D., 2018, ‘Logical’ Concerns in Data Science, In Proceedings of Istanbul International Congress on Philosophy, May 2-4, 2018, İstanbul, ISBN: 978-605-80953-0-4, pp.199-206.
• Yargan [Satıoğlu], D., 2017, On Dynamic and Flexible Formal Ontologies (in Turkish), In Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Logic, June 29-30, 2017, Samsun, ISBN: 978-605-66311-2-2, pp. 697-703.
• Yargan [Satıoğlu], D., 2016, A Taxonomy of Questions with Respect to the Universal-Particular Dichotomy, In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS), 2016. [link]
• Yargan [Satıoğlu], D., 2016, The Formal Bases of Temporal Logic and The Theory of Process (in Turkish), In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Logic, May 26-27, 2016, Artvin, ISBN: 978-605-66311-1-5, pp.353-361.

Abstracts in geprüften Konferenzen und Seminaren

• Yargan, D., 2025, A Trope-Theoretical Framework for Knowledge Representation, DiTraRe Symposium on Digitalisation of Research, December 2-3, 2025, Digital Transformation of Research, FIZ Karlsruhe & Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. [link], [doi]
• Yargan, D., 2023, To What Extent are LLMs Creative? In Abstract Book of Philosophy in Informatics VIII: Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence: Philosophical Explorations, December 1-2, 2023, Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Kraków, p.36.
• Yargan [Satıoğlu], D., 2017, A Philosophical Introduction to Upper-Level Ontologies, In Abstract Book of the 2nd International Symposium on Philosophy, Education, Art and History of Science, May 3-7, 2017, Muğla, p. 514.
• Yargan [Satıoğlu], D., 2017, What Would It Be Like to Be Visiting an Art Gallery with Wittgenstein?, In Abstract Book of the 2nd International Symposium on Philosophy, Education, Art and History of Science, May 3-7, 2017, Muğla, p. 515.

• 13. April 2022, Gastvortrag zu Informationssystemen und Ontologien an der Fakultät für Informatik, Universität Instanbul.  
• 25. u. 30. Mai und 1. Juni 2021, Tutorial zum Thema “Towards Building ESBS Ontologies” mit Protégé 5.5 im Rahmen d. Projekts “Method, Research, Theory Programs”, TÜBİTAK-Projektnummer 118C257, Universität Boğaziçi. [link]
• 26. April 2021, Gastvortrag zum Thema “ Introduction to Description Logics” (auf Türkisch) andre Fakultät für Philosophie, Universität Istanbul.
• 26.-27. Oktober 2019, Tutorial mit Aziz F. Zambak zu Künstlicher Intelligenz und formaler Ontologie (auf Türkisch) am Computer Science Application and Research Center mit 50 Teilnehmern aus unterschiedlichen Universitätsbereichen, von Studenten bis Professoren, Fakultät f. Informatik, Universität Istanbul.[link]
• 8. August 2019, Tutorial zu Description Logics (auf Türkisch) in der Advanced Logic Summer School des Feza Gürsey Centers für Physik und Mathematik für Studenten und Uniabsolventen aus verschiedenen Bereichen, Turkish Logic Society.
• 13. April, 2018, Seminar auf Einladung, Thema “ Logic in Ontology and Data Science” (auf Türkisch) für Absolventen an der Fakultät f. Philosophie, Universität Istanbul.
• Januar - März 2008, Lehrpraktikum an der Ballard Community District School, Huxley, Iowa

• 3. Mai 2025, Interlocutor on Models and Analogies in Biomimetics, in Models and Theories: Book Symposium on Roman Frigg's Philosophical Inquiry, 3.-4. Mai 2025, Potsdam. [link]
• 23. September 2024, Vortrag zum Thema “ What Makes Biomimetics a Unified Field of Research?" mit Manfred Drack und Ludger Jansen beim Deutschen Kongress für Philosophie XXVI, 22.-26. September 2024, Münster
• 18. September 2024, Vortrag zum Thema “A Conceptual Framework to Understand the Unique Position of Biomimetics” mit Manfred Drack und Ludger Jansen, in Forum on Philosophy, Engineering, and Technology (fPET2024), 17.-19. September 2024, Karlsruhe
• 7. März 2024, Vortrag zum Thema “Introduction to Applied Ontology, Q&A”, mit Jansen, beim Seminar: The Foundations of Biomimetics, 5.-7. März 2024, Tübingen.
• 1. Dezember 2023, Vortrag zum Thema “To what extent are LLMs creative?” auf der Konferenz Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence: Philosophical Explorations, 1.-2. Dezember 2023, Polnische Akademie der Künste und der Wissenschaften, Kraków (online).
• 11. Mai 2023, Vortrag zum Thema “Natural Numbers and Propositions as Morphisms” (auf Türkisch) beim 12. Logik-Workshop, 11.-13. Mai 2023, Van (online).
• 26. April 2023, Keynote-Speaker, Thema “Three Successive Cynics and Three Ethical Categories: Antisthenes, Diogenes, Crates & Virtue, Happiness, Politics” (auf Türkisch) beim Mavi Anadolu Felsefe Sempozyumu, 24.-26. April 2023, Muğla (online)
• 4. November 2022, Vortrag zum Thema “Interaction Among Equals: A Survey on HCI [Human-Computer Interaction] from XAI Perspective” an der Fakultät f. Informatik, Universität İstanbul.
• 13. April 2022, Vortrag zum Thema” Information Systems and Ontologies” an der Fakultät f. Informatik, Universität İstanbul.
• 1. September2021, Keynote-Vortrag zum Thema “Devil’s Advocate: Unrealizable Promises” (auf Türkisch) bei der “AI in Social Sciences”-Session an der Artificial Intelligence Summer School, 1.-3. September 2021, organisiert von den Universitäten von İstanbul, IU-Cerrahpaşa, Kocaeli, Sakarya, und Yalova.
• 16.Januar 2021, Vortrag zum Thema “Knowledge Standardization in the ESBS: Why do we need a reference ontology?” im Projekt “Method, Research, Theory Programs” Universität Boğaziçi.
• 30. September 2020, Vortrag zum Thema “Lingua Franca in Medicine: Medical Ontologies”, bei From the First Computers to Medical Informatics: 60 Years of Adventure, in Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence Applications in Medicine, e-workshop.
• 14.-16. November 2019, Vortrag zum Thema “Is Science Without Explanations Possible?” beim 2.   International Congress of Women Philosophers, Muğla.
• 18.-19. April 2019, Vortrag zum Thema “Big Data Flattening the DIKW Pyramid” beim 9. Logik-Seminar, Mardin.
• 13. April 2018, Seminar zu “Logic in Ontology and Data Science” (Türkisch) an der Fakultät f. Philosophie, Universität İstanbul.

• 2023 | METU GSSS Best Graduate Thesis Award, Graduate School of Social Sciences, METU, Ankara, Türkei
• 2012-2013 Academic Year | METU Course Performance Award, Graduate School of Social Sciences, METU, Ankara, Türkei
• 5.-30. August 2013 | DAAD- University Summer School Scholarship, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany
• Januar-März 2008 | Fulbright Teacher Internship Scholarship, Iowa State University, USA
• 2006-2007 Academic Year | METU Course Performance Award | Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, METU, Ankara, Türkei