Dieter Fensel (Born 10 October 1960 in Nuremberg) is a researcher in the field of formal languages and the semantic web.
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Dr Fensel studied mathematics, social science and computer science at Berlin, and received his doctorate in economics in 1993, studying under Dr Rudi Studer at the University of Karlsruhe. (Title: Die Wissen-Erfassungs- und Repräsentationssprache KARL). In 1998 he received his habilitation and started work at the Institute for Applied Computer Science and Formal Description Procedures (AIFB), focusing, inter alia, on knowledge management and Formal languages.
Subsequently he worked as an assistant professor at Amsterdam, and as a professor at NUI Galway (Ireland) (2003–2006) and at the University of Innsbruck. At NUI Galway he worked within the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) on semantic web services technologies. Since 2003 he has been the director of DERI Innsbruck, which in December 2007 was renamed to Semantic Technologies Institute Innsbruck (STI Innsbruck). Dr Fensel was the founding director of the Semantic Technology Institute International (STI2). He is one of five founders of seekda spin-of company of STI Innsbruck.[1]
Dr Fensel has published numerous articles in technical periodicals,[2][3] has been giving keynote speeches [4] and co-organized conferences. He has been and is involved in several national and international research projects such as LarKc, SOA4All and Insemtives.