May 19, 2016
TUD Young Investigator Markus Krötzsch appointed Professor of "Knowledge-based Systems"
TU Dresden has appointed the computer scientist Dr. Markus Krötzsch Professor of Knowledge-Based Systems. This means the 35-year-old is the firstTUD Young Investigator to be made professor.
Markus Krötzsch is co-founder ofWikidata, a data base that since 2012 has evaluated and linked information from Wikipedia articles. Wikidata provides general information such as biographical data, which can be used in all Wikipedia articles. With the help of the "semantic" Wiki developed by Krötzsch, it is also possible (by linking the information of various articles) to find out, for example, which of the world’s ten largest cities is currently governed by a woman mayor.
Markus Krötzsch has been an Emmy Noether Junior Research Group Leader at TU Dresden’s Institute of Theoretical Computer Science since 2013. He is also group leader within one of the computer science research paths at the Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) Cluster of Excellence.
In Berlin on May 18, 2016, he was awarded the German Research Foundation’s (DFG) Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize for young researchers.
Dr. Krötzsch accepted the appointment to the TUD Chair of "Knowledge-Based Systems" at the beginning of May. The Chair is supported by the cfaed Cluster of Excellence and is based at the Institute of Theoretical Computer Science. The official appointment took place in July 2016.