Short biography

From korrekt.org

Below is a brief personal description in the usual third-person style. More information can be found on my personal page. There is also another 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. He is a co-developer of the highly efficient ELK reasoner for OWL EL, project lead of the popular semantic content management system Semantic MediaWiki, and co-editor of the W3C OWL 2 specification. His research has contributed to the fields of light-weight and rule-based ontology languages, query answering, reasoning complexity, and content management and integration platforms for the Web of Data. He has published many works in leading journals and conferences, and two textbooks on semantic technologies, one of which has been recognised as Outstanding Academic Title in 2010 by the American Library Association. The linked data integration site Shortipedia that he co-developed has won the 3rd prize of the Semantic Web Challenge 2010. He has given invited talks, tutorials and lectures at numerous events, and co-organised various international conferences and workshops.