People

The IKS community is made up of researchers, developers and end-users. These individuals play an important role in ensuring the forward progress of the community by contributing to community projects, participating in community discussions and sharing their knowledge and expertise with the community.

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  • Prof. Dr. Gregor Engels

    Prof. Dr. Gregor Engels, born 1955 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, received his PhD in Computer Science in 1986 from the University of Osnabrück, Germany. Between 1991 and 1997 he held the position of Chair of Software Engineering and Information Systems at the University of...

  • Rene Kapusta

    Rene Kapusta is working as Software Architect on research and development of social semantic applications. He founded his first Internet company at the age of 18. As Application Designer with 10+ years experience in browser based and open source technologies he's also core member of the...

  • Rens Admiraal

    Over the last years Rens has been working for multiple companies involved with open-source projects like TYPO3. His main interest is in new techniques and code quality. As a FLOW3 / TYPO3 Phoenix core developer he's involved in developing the next generation CMS of the TYPO3 community....

  • Reto Bachmann-Gmür

    After having been developing Web Application in 2003 he first presented KnoBot, an early concept of a social knowledge management system based on semantic Web technologies. Since then he has been working with Semantic Web technologies for various companies such as HP, Trialox and now Adobe....

  • Rico Possienka

    Rico Possienka studies media informatics at the Beuth Hochschule in Berlin.  He began working with Conatix in November 2012.  He has been programming since the age of 15.  He has always been curious about computer graphics and his goal is to create outstanding video games....

  • Rupert Westenthaler

    Rupert Westenthaler is working as researcher and senior software developer in the Knowledge and Media Technologies (KMT) Group at Salzburg Research. He holds a DI(fh) in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of applied Science in Salzburg (June 2000) and has ten years of...

  • Sabine Janzen

    Sabine Janzen is research associate and Ph.D. candidate at the Chair in Information and Service Systems (ISS) at Saarland University. She is interested in human computer interaction including natural language processing, semantic modeling of knowledge representations and software design....

  • Sebastian Germesin

    Sebastian Germesin finished his studies in 2008 with a Master's degree and started his PhD thesis at the DFKI - the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence - at Saarbrücken. Starting with the AMIDA project, he was responsible for the development of technology for the...

  • Stefan Sauer

    Stefan graduated with a Diplom in Informatics from the University of Oldenburg, Germany and spent one year as a visiting scholar at the Computer Science Department of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. In 1997, he joined the information and database systems research group...

  • Stefane Fermigier

    Stefane founded Nuxeo in 2000, after 7 years as a researcher at Paris 7 university. Stefane guides the strategy and management of Nuxeo and is an evangelist for open source ECM. Prior to the foundation of Nuxeo, he co-founded and was the first president of the AFUL (French-speaking association...