Externally funded projects as PI or Co-PI

At Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio

Ontology and Semantic-Aided Human Cognition Knowledge Discovery . Henry M. Jackson Foundation. 2008-2010. Co-PI since 2009.

At AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

WeDeL-R - Webizing Description Logic Rules. Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) in the PPP programme (cooperation with Oxford University). 2009-2011. Co-PI.

ExpresST - Expressive Querying for Semantic Technologies. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). 2009-2011. Co-PI.

ReaSem - Practical Reasoning Support for Semantic Technologies. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). 2006-2009. Co-PI.

While at TU Dresden, Germany

Applications of quantitative domain theory to non-monotonic reasoning. Partial funding by the Foundation for Polish Science and the Mianowski Fund. One month research visit (2004) at the Computer Science Institute, Department of Mathematics and Physics, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. Principal Investigator: Pascal Hitzler (TU Dresden/AIFB Karlsruhe). Collaborator: Pawel Waszkiewicz. (Stipend could not be taken for personal reasons)

Domain Logic for Artificial Intelligence. Fully funded by the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) in the postdoc-programme. Three months research visit (October - December 2003) at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Principal Investigator: Pascal Hitzler (TU Dresden). Collaborator: Guo-Qiang Zhang.

Further project involvement

At AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

SOA4ALL - Service Oriented Architectures for All. EU IST IP. 2008-2012. Principal Investigator at AIFB Karlsruhe: Rudi Studer. I was mainly contributing to work on knowledge representation and reasoning related to tractability and scalability of dealing with web service descriptions.

THESEUS - Research program for a new Internet-based knowledge infrastructure. Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi). Since 2008. Principal Investigator at FZI Karlsruhe: Rudi Studer. I was mainly contributing to work on knowledge representation and reasoning related to scalability.

NeOn - Lifecycle Support for Networked Ontologies. EU IST IP. 2006-2010. Principal Investigator at AIFB Karlsruhe: Rudi Studer. I was mainly contributing to work on knowledge representation and reasoning with networked and contextualized ontologies.

X-Media - Large scale knowledge sharing and reuse across media. EU IST IP. 2006-2010. Principal Investigator at AIFB Karlsruhe: Rudi Studer. I was mainly contributing to the work uncertainty knowledge representation and reasoning with ontologies.

KOReA - KAON2 Reasoning for SWRL and Large ABoxes. 2006-2007.

SmartWeb - Mobiler breitbandiger Zugang zum Semantischen Web. Fully funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF). 2004-2007. Principal Investigator: Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI Saarbrücken). Principal Investigator at AIFB Karlsruhe: Rudi Studer. Investigator and project leader at AIFB Karlsruhe (August 2004 until end of project): Pascal Hitzler.

KnowledgeWeb - Realizing the Semantic Web. EU Network of Excellence. 2004-2007. Principal Investigator at AIFB Karlsruhe: Rudi Studer. I was mainly contributing throughout the duration of the project to the work packages Scalability and Heterogeneity. In 2007, I was also work package leader for Management and Self-assessment.

While at the National University of Ireland, University College Cork

The Use of Topology and Analysis in Computational Logic. Fully funded by Enterprise Ireland. PhD scholarship (2001-2003) at the Department of Mathematics, National University of Ireland, University College Cork. Principal investigator: Anthony Karel Seda (University College Cork, Ireland). Researcher (PhD student): Pascal Hitzler.