Jan Heinrich Merker

Jan Heinrich Merker finished his studies on computer science at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, where he specialized on information retrieval. He wrote his Master’s thesis on Identifying and Answering Health-Related QuestionsExternal link. Since May 2023 Heinrich is researcher at the chair of databases and information systems and part of the Webis GroupExternal link. He conducts research mostly on information retrieval for health-related queries, web mining, and on the evaluation of information retrieval approaches.