Dusseldorf During the corona crisis, Researchgate founder Ijad Madisch helped thousands of scientists to share their research results digitally. Now he wants to accelerate climate research with artificial intelligence. In the Handelsblatt Disrupt podcast, he tells Editor-in-Chief Sebastian Matthes how this is supposed to work. “We need a system in which man and machine work together,” says Madisch.
From Monday, a new “Spotlight” function will be available on its Researchgate science platform, allowing users to further increase the visibility of their research results. Similar to the Facebook news feed, the researchers are suggested a selected publication from the profile of other scientists with similar interests.
“Sufficient knowledge and technology are available,” says Madisch. “We just have to learn how to use them.” The founder was once considered the hope of the Berlin start-up scene, but today he has long been known beyond the national borders. He collected almost 90 million dollars in seed capital from star investors such as Bill Gates, ex-Facebook manager Matt Cohler and tech billionaire Peter Thiel. Ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Madisch in his Berlin office.
The war in Ukraine does not leave the entrepreneur untouched. Part of the scientific community is demanding that Russian researchers be denied access to the platform. Madisch hesitates: he founded Researchgate with the aim of making knowledge accessible. “It is our mission to bring people together – even in times of war.”
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More: The previous episode of Handelsblatt Disrupt can be found here.