1. Education and Work Experience1.1 University Career| July 2006- | Professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Director of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Galway. | | October 2005-June 2006 | Acting Executive Director of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute at the National University of Ireland, Galway. | Since October 2003
| Senior Research Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer, National University of Ireland, Galway (leading a group of 10 PostDocs, PhD Students and master students).
| | April 2003-July 2005 | Research Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. | July 2002-July 2005
| Computer Scientist, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute, Los Angeles, USA. | July 1999-July 2002
| Postdoc and Research Associate at the Computer Science Department, Stanford University, USA. | | October 1995-July 1999 | Ph.D. studies at University of Karlsruhe, Faculty of Economic Science. Title of the Ph.D. thesis: "Semantic Web Methods for Knowledge Management", process completed Feb. 2002, passed with distinction (summa cum laude).
Committee: Prof. Dr. Peter Knauth, Prof Dr. Gio Wiederhold, and Prof. Dr. Rudi Studer | | 1988-1995 | Study of Computer Science at the University of Kaiserslautern, Diplom (Masters Degree) passed with distinction (summa cum laude) (best possible result, best 2% of all students). Focus of my studies was AI (especially Automated Theorem Proving, Expert Systems, Logic Programming and Deductive Databases) and Mathematics (here especially Finite Model Theory).
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1.2 Secondary Education and Military Service| 1987 - 1988 | Military Service, Wuppertal and Duelmen | | 1978 - 1987 | Secondary School, Gymnasium Georgianum Vreden, final grade 1.6 (best 5%) |
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