Laura’s main research themes are modeling, linking and enrichment of data, including studies of the usage of data. She is the initiator of the USEWOD workshop series on usage analysis of linked open data, organizer of the DeRiVE workshop series on modeling events, and organizer of a track in the Ontology Matching workshop on linking large and multi-lingual resources to each other. Laura has been work-package leader in two European FP7 projects on semantics and data integration. In the Extended Semantic Web Conference, she has chaired the PhD symposium, and is now co-chair of the Linked Data track.