Axel Polleres

Axel Polleres heads the Institute for Data, Process, and Knowledge Management of Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien), which he joined in September 2013 as a Full Professor in the area of "Data and Knowledge Engineering". He is also a faculty member of the Complexity Science Hub Vienna and was a visiting professor at Stanford University in 2018. He obtained his Ph.D. and habilitation from Vienna University of Technology. His research focuses on ontologies, query languages,...See more

Axel Polleres heads the Institute for Data, Process, and Knowledge Management of Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien), which he joined in September 2013 as a Full Professor in the area of "Data and Knowledge Engineering". He is also a faculty member of the Complexity Science Hub Vienna and was a visiting professor at Stanford University in 2018. He obtained his Ph.D. and habilitation from Vienna University of Technology. His research focuses on ontologies, query languages, logic programming, configuration technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Semantic Web, Linked Open Data, Knowledge Graphs, and their applications for Knowledge Management. Moreover, he actively contributed to international standardization efforts within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) where he co-chaired the W3C SPARQL working group. See less