Education
Dignum received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1989 from the VU University Amsterdam under supervision of Reinder van de Riet with the thesis, entitled "A Language for Modelling Knowledge Bases, Based on Linguistics, Founded in Logic.".
Dignum received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1989 from the VU University Amsterdam under supervision of Reinder van de Riet with the thesis, entitled "A Language for Modelling Knowledge Bases, Based on Linguistics, Founded in Logic.".
Dignum started his academic career as assistant professor and chair of department of Computer Science at the University of Swaziland in 1990. In 1992 he moved to back to Portugal and became assistant professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon. Back in the Netherlands in 2000 he was appointed Associate professor at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences of the Utrecht University.
His Doctor of Philosophy students were Jurriaan van Diggelen (2006), and Hubertus Aldewereld (2007).
