Current Affiliation
Professor for Knowledge Processing in Hybrid AI Systems: University of Osnabrück, Institute of Computer Science (since 2024).
Research Focus: Knowledge representation, ontologies and neuro-symbolic AI.
Professional Career
2013 – 2024: Professor for Theoretical Computer Science, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg.
2006 – 2013: Senior Researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Bremen.
2008 – 2009: Substitute Professor for "Foundations of Artificial Intelligence" at the University of Freiburg.
2002 – 2005: Assistant Professor, University of Bremen.
2000 – 2002: Research Assistant, University of Bremen (Bremen Institute for Safe and Secure Systems).
Education & Academic Degrees
Habilitation (2005): University of Bremen. Thesis "Heterogeneous specification and the heterogeneous tool set."
PhD in Computer Science (1996): University of Bremen. Graduated summa cum laude; thesis: "Representations, hierarchies and graphs of institutions."
Diploma in Computer Science (1992): University of Bremen. Graduated with the grade 1.0.
Academic Studies (1986 – 1992): Studied Computer Science at the University of Bremen.
