In 1989, Prof. Dr. Dieter Fensel earned both his Master in Social Science (Free University of Berlin) and his Master in Computer Science (Technical University of Berlin). In 1993, he was awarded his Doctoral degree in Economic Science, Dr. rer. pol. (Doctorate on Political Science), from the University of Karlsruhe. In 1998 he received his Habilitation in Applied Computer Science. Throughout his doctoral and post-doctoral career, Prof. Dr. Fensel has held positions at the University of Karlsruhe (AIFB), the
He has been an executive member in more than 100 international and national research projects with a total volume of several hundred million euro; he worked as scientific or project coordinator in several of these projects. He is co-founder of the company Seekda ( https://seekda.com ), a multi-channel and direct booking solution, and Onlim ( http://onlim.com ), an online marketing tool.
His experience is however not restricted to research, having taught numerous courses at various levels of education, from professional academies and technical colleges to universities and scientific conferences. Topics include: Electronic Commerce, eTourism, Formal Specification Languages, Intelligent Systems, Semantic Web and Ontologies, Semantic Web Services, Web Engineering and World Wide Web. He was in more than 100 Bachelor, Master, and PhD committees and is a recipient of the Carl-Adam-Petri-Award of