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.