Archive
This page lists former members of our institute.
Dr. Sinuhé Arroyo was one of the earliest participants of DERI Innsbruck before it was even called like this. He has a strong record in working with industry and running successfully EU funded projects. We are very happy to see him finalizing his PhD in 2007 and we are sure that this was just yet another step in a successful carrier.
Michael Breu worked in 2003 and 2004 as a senior scientist for the COG project.
Christoph Bussler has been the co-founder of DERI in Galway and was also helping in Innsbruck. Without him there would be no DERI. We wish him the best in sunny California!
Dr. Tobias Bürger is a very polite and modest researcher, roughly the opposite of the DERI/STI standard employee. You realize his impact and helpful attitude mostly in the moment when he has left the place. He is currently with Salzburg Research and we wish him the best for his future career.
Dr. Emilia Cimpian started with me as a PhD student in Galway and it has been a pleasure to host her as an employee for a number of years in Innsbruck. Coming from Romania she is proof of the added value of the new European Union member states. Her interest has been in process mediation, a topic that qualifies for a life time obsession.
He is an out-standing person in various aspects, combining intellectual strength with a hard working attitude. His future career has high potential especially if he is able to release them.
Dr. Ying Ding has been one of the earliest persons in Europe working on the semantic web. In a time where the world wide community would have easily fit into a small meeting room. Her work in OnToKnowledge helped to set up the technical ground and her central engagement in Ontoweb was critical for the birth of the semantic web community. We wish her a lot of success for her new Professorship position in the States.
Dr. Sigurd Harand worked for 4 years for DERI coordinating the large DIP Integrated Project that achieved land marking results in the area of Semantic Web Services.
Prof. Dr. Martin Hepp is the most energetic person I have ever met. As far as I can tell, he lives three lives in a time span where most of us just have one. He left STI Innsbruck to take a full professorship on E-Business at the Universität der Bundeswehr in Munich, Germany for which we wish him all the best.
Dr. Stijn Heymann was working for our institute from 2006 to 2008 and helped significantly to strengthen the expertise around formal languages in Tyrol.
It has been a honour for us to host a researcher with such a world-class expertise and impact. Whenever you need to plan something make sure you have his expertise around! We are looking very much forward to cooperate with him on new opportunities in the future.
It was a big pleasure and honor for us to host Prof. Michael Kifer in 2006/7 as a visiting BIT professor at our institute.
Starting with my PhD I try to understand and apply his vision around tractable instance reasoning with rules.
Dr. Ruben Lara was one of the first members of the Next Web Generation. We are very happy to see him finalizing his PhD at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid in 2007.
Juan M. Gómez started as first Phd student for DERI Innsbruck in 2003 and finalized his thesis in 2006 at DERI Galway. Being our first prototype we were all impressed by his performance.
Christian Mayer was for many years the backbone of our institute and his friendly and cooperate attitude will never be forgotten. We wish him good luck for his future career after finalizing his studies.
Dr. Adrian Mocan started with me as a PhD student in Galway and it has been a pleasure to host him as an employee for a number of years in Innsbruck. Coming from Romania he is proof of the added value of the new member states of the European Union. His interest has been in mediation, a topic that qualifies for a life time obsession.
After his PhD with John Domingue in Milton Keynes the undeniable force of love brought him to Innsbruck and it was quite a pleasure to work with him for a while. Unfortunately, the same force of life roped him away, as quickly as he came.
We were very much pleased to work for a while with Ruzica Piskac on her way towards a PhD. We will miss her and her support and we wish her the best for her future. She also was the Derian that gave the nicest good-bye presentation ever.
Axel Polleres was joining DERI Innsbruck in 2003 and soon became one of the corner stones in building up the team. His excellence in giving not only single answers but entire sets of them was appreciated by all of us and we wish him great success for his future career that brought him currently to Spain.
A remarkable person in many respects. He managed to publish a VLDB paper, he lets boats sink in Guadeloupe, and finally there is a strong rumour that he invented WSMO. We wish him good luck for his future career which has brought him to SINTEF in Norway after his PhD in Innsbruck.
It was always a pleasure to work with Francois Scharffe (especially during times he decided to do so). His PhD in 2009 on Ontology Alignemnt Patterns nicely combined conecptual and formal work and we wish him success and fun for his future career.
Univ.-Prof. Marcus Spies worked from October 2006 until September 2008 as senior scientist and unit leader on the Business Development of STI Innsbruck and in a number of projects.
Dr. Michael Stollberg is the first German national to finish his PhD with STI Innsbruck. He gave us the honor for a number of years to work with him and he is now heading for more urban areas of civilization again. We wish him luck with his future career. Lets hope that he always efficiently finds matches for his goals! The slides to his farewell can be found here.
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Strang was a helping hand for many years, especially during the time of the dual appointment with Galway. In those years you could have called him my second half. His target is the stars and we wish him the greatest success in his future journey!
She combines a deep understanding of 1st and 2nd order logic with a charming personality, a unique combination. She was very active in the Formal Languages and Reasoning group and provided conceptual leadership in the LarKC project (Large Knowledge Collider). We wish her the very best for her future career.
Alexander Wahler helped for many years in Innsbruck and we are very happy to cooperate with him in the future as CEO of STI International in Vienna.
The mission of DERI is to apply semantics to data and processes enabling self awareness of computer systems. This puts so-called philosophical questions such as what is meaning and how can it be represented into an engineering context. Dieter Wolf significantly helped us through providing a better and deeper understanding of such basics of our technology.
Dr. Michal Zaremba is one of the founding scientists in the field semantic Web services and a cornerstone of the Web service execution environment (WSMX), an architecture for implementing this vision. His leaving will be a sad loss, but this is more than compensated by gaining him for seekda, a spin-off from the institute that specialises in the commercial exploitation of publicly available Web services.
