Markus Krötzsch became the new Professor for "Knowledge-Based Systems"

On July 1, he accedes the chair of "Knowledge-Based Systems", which is located at the Institute for Theoretical Computer Science. Since 2013 Markus Krötzsch is working as Emmy-Noether-junior group leader at the Institute of Theoretical Computer Science at TU Dresden. In the Cluster of Excellence of the Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) he is also working as a group leader in one of the Computer Science research paths. On 18 May 2016 he also got the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Price for young scientists from the German Research Foundation in Berlin.

He was born in Vogtland, had studied Computer Science in Dresden and did his PhD at the Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe (KIT) about computer-based knowledge presentation in 2010. Afterwards he worked as a research assistant at the University of Oxford. Now he has returned to his Saxon roots. "I have been very well integrated from the very beginning," he says regarding his previous time at TUD. "Colleagues have approached me and asked if I wanted to work on other projects." Last year he was appointed to the TUD Young Investigator by the university management. This is an action which is designed to promote young scientists within the scope of the future concept. "This also means an even better integration into the university structures, for example, when involving in the teaching and supervising of graduate students."

One focus of his future research are the so called knowledge graphs that represent the information in the form of networks. But first the research group still has to grow a lot.