Education
He obtained a degree (1975) and a Doctor of Philosophy (1982) in Computer Science at the University of Stuttgart.
He obtained a degree (1975) and a Doctor of Philosophy (1982) in Computer Science at the University of Stuttgart.
He is the head of the knowledge management research group at the Institute AIFB and one of the directors of the Karlsruhe Service Research Institute (KSRI). He was one of the inaugural editor-in-chiefs of the Journal of Web Semantics, a position he held until He is a co-author of the Semantic Wikipedia proposal. From 1985 to 1989 he was project leader and manager at International Business Machines Corporation Germany, Institute of Knowledge Based Systems.
November 1989 he became professor in Karlsruhe.
Since then, he led his research group to become one of the world leading institutions in Semantic Web technology, and he played a leading role in establishing highly acknowledged international conferences and journals in this area. His current research interests span over the main topics important for Semantic Web technology, including knowledge management, knowledge engineering, discovery and learning, ontology management, data and text mining, semantic web services, and peer-to-peer systems
Forschungszentrum Informatik. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology]
He is a former president of the Semantic Web Science Association, an STI International Fellow, and a member of numerous programme committees and editorial boards. He is a former member of the L3S Learning Laboratory Lower Saxony in Hannover.
He is a member of Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IFIP Working Group on Databases (Working group 26), and German Informatics Society (GI).