Markus Krötzsch

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Since July 2010, I am doing research at the Computing Laboratory at the University of Oxford. Information about my research and teaching, contact details, and further relevant data can be found below.

Below is the brief personal description I currently use. There is also a page with a more detailed curriculum vitae.

Dr. Markus Krötzsch is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Oxford. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in 2010. His research interest is the intelligent automatic processing of information, ranging from the foundations of formal knowledge representation to application areas like the Semantic Web. He is the lead developer of the successful Semantic Web application platform Semantic MediaWiki, co-editor of the W3C OWL 2 specification, chief maintainer of the semanticweb.org community portal, and co-author of the textbook Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies.

Contents 1 Research 2 Teaching 3 Further activities 4 Grants and awards 5 Contact data

Research

My research is focussed on information systems and (semantic) Web technologies, ranging from foundational studies in knowledge representation and reasoning to implementations of deployable systems (including the one that runs this site)

• Publications
• Research interests

Teaching

• Lecture «Knowledge Representation and Reasoning» at University of Oxford:
  • Class teaching 2010/2011 (together with Bernardo Cuenca Grau and Ian Horrocks)
• Lecture «Semantic Web Technologies I» at AIFB Karlsruhe:
  • Winter 2009/10 (together with Sebastian Rudolph)
  • Winter 2008/09 (together with Pascal Hitzler and Sebastian Rudolph)
  • Winter 2007/08 (together with Pascal Hitzler and Sebastian Rudolph)
• Lecture «Intelligente Systeme im World Wide Web» («Intelligent Systems on the WWW») at AIFB Karlsruhe
  • Summer 2006 (together with Anupriya Ankolekar, Pascal Hitzler, and York Sure)
  • Summer 2005 (together with Pascal Hitzler and York Sure)
• Seminar «Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for the Semantic Web» at TU Dresden in Winter 2005/06 (together with Pascal Hitzler)

• Tutorials and summer school lectures are listed under Activities.

Further activities

• Lead developer of Semantic MediaWiki
• Member of the new W3C Web Ontology Language (OWL) working group
• Former member of W3C Rule Interchange Format (RIF) working group
• Maintainer of semanticweb.org, the Semantic Web community portal
• Further activities (reviewing, organisations, talks)

Grants and awards

• Winner of KIT Doctoral Award 2011 for Description Logic Rules in the area of Information, Communication, Organisation (one out of six areas in which the prize is awarded by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology each year).
• Textbook Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies selected by the American Library Association as an Outstanding Academic Title in 2010 (out of 7000 new books that have been reviewed in detail)
• Winner of 3rd prize at the 2010 Semantic Web Challenge for the entry Shortipedia (with Denny Vrandecic, Varun Ratnakar, Yolanda Gil)
• Best Paper Award for Efficient Inferencing for OWL EL at the 12th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA 2010)
• do it.software-award 2007: third price of the 2007 do it software awards for Semantic MediaWiki (ISWC2006) (with Denny Vrandecic, York Sure, Rudi Studer)
• Finalist of Semantic Web Challenge 2006 for the entry Semantic MediaWiki (together with Denny Vrandecic, Max Völkel)
• Best Poster Award at 5th European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2006 (together with Max Völkel, Denny Vrandecic, Heiko Haller, Rudi Studer)
• Georg-Helm-Preis 2005: best Master's thesis in 2005; yearly award given to two or three graduates (Master's/PhD) of TU Dresden
• DAAD grant «Kurzfristige Studienaufenthalte zur Anfertigung einer Masterarbeit»: thesis research exchange grant of the German Academic Exchange Service, hosted by CWRU Cleveland
• Bestes Vordiplom 2002: award for best Computer Science pre-degree at TU Dresden (best grade point average)

Contact data

• Email: markus.kroetzsch@comlab.ox.ac.uk (work)
  • I receive many emails. Some might be overlooked or lost. Feel free to re-send your unanswered message.
  • I am happy to get in learn about new projects, interesting developments, and hard questions related to my work.
• Phone: +44 1865 283529 (work)
• Fax: +44 1865 273839 (work)
• Work address:

Markus Kroetzsch
Wolfson Building
Parks Road
Oxford OX1 3QD 
United Kingdom

• Skype: kroetzsch
• Yes, I have accounts at LinkedIn, Facebook, and XING – though there is also some truth in this rant
• GPG key: search for the key ID 0xE302A83DEEA9C8F9, e.g. on http://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net/