Tabular Bio
- 30th June 1956 Birth in Vienna, Austria
- 1962 - 1974 "Lycée Français" school,
Vienna, Austria.
- 28th June 1974 High School Diploma (Baccalauréat).
- 1974 - 1979 Mathematics and
Computer Science studies at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien).
- 13th Dec. 1979 Diplomingenieur (M.Sc.) in
Computer Science. Thesis: "Simulation of interactively guided
streetcar networks".
- May 1980 - April 1082
University Assistant at the "Institut für Angewandte Informatik und
Systemanalyse" (Institute of Applied Computer Science and
Systems Analysis) at TU Wien.
- June 1981
"Doktor der technischen Wissenschaften", cum laude, TU Wien, thesis:
"Multivalued Logic - Structure and Application in Computer Science"
- Sept. 1982 - Dec. 1984
Research Associate at
Politecnico di Milano, Department of Electrical Engineering.
- Jan. 1984 - Dec. 1984
Chief consultant of the industrial research project
DATANET-SAD:
Development and implementation of a distributed file-server for
Olivetti Microcomputers, Milano (Italy), A.R.G.-S.P.A. software company.
- Jan. 1985 - Feb. 1988
Researcher at the Institute of Applied Mathematics of
C.N.R. (Italian National Research Council), Genoa, Italy.
- Jun.-Sept.1985 and 1986
Research Scholar at Stanford University
(Invited by Gio Wiederhold) and
lecturer of
the course "Distributed Databases" (jointly with S.Ceri)
- June-July 1987
Research Scholar and Lecturer at Stanford University.
- Since 1st March 1988
Professor of Computer Science
at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien),
"Institut für Informationssyteme" (Institute
of Information Systems).
- Oct. 1989 - Sept. 1996
Director of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Expert Systems
(Laboratory for basic research in the field of expert systems, located
at TU Vienna but industrially funded).
- Since 1988
Head of the Database and AI Group
of the Information Systems Department of
Vienna TU (currently about 20 employees).
- 1991 - 1998 and 2001-2003
Chairman of the Information Systems Department of Vienna TU.
- Summer semester 1993 Sabbatical at the ETH Zurich,
Switzerland.
- July 1998 Recipient of the Wittgenstein Award.
- Spring term 1999
Invited McKay Professor at the Computer Science Division,
EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley.
- May 1999 Elected Corresponding Member of the
Austrian Academy of Sciences.
- November 2001 Co-Founder of the Lixto Software GmbH
company (www.lixto.com), a spin-off of TU Wien offering software and services
for data extraction and integration. Lixto was a finalist in the
2003 World Technology Award competition.
- February 2002 Visiting Professor,
Université Paris VII, Denis Diderot.
- May 2004 Elected Full Member of the
Austrian Academy of Sciences.
- Since 1 January 2006 Professor of Computing Science, Oxford
University.
- Since 1 January 2006 Fellow of St. Anne's College, Oxford
University.
- March 2006 Elected Member of the German Academy of
Sciences Leopoldina.
- April 2006 Royal Society Wolfson
Research Merit Award. (The selection for
this Award was made in December 2005. April 2006 is the starting
date for the funding provided by this award).
- April 2006 Elected Member of the
Academia Europaea, London.