Curriculum Vitae:

Gerd Stumme is head of the Hertie Chair "Knowledge & Data Engineering" at the University of Kassel. Gerd Stumme is Full Professor of Computer Science and full member of the Research Center L3S. He earned his PhD in 1997 at Darmstadt University of Technology, and his Habilitation at the Institute AIFB of the University of Karlsruhe in 2002. In 1999/2000 he was Visiting Professor at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, France, and Substitute Professor for Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery at the University of Magdeburg in 2003.

Gerd Stumme published over 80 articles at national and international conferences and in journals, and chaired several workshops and conferences. He is member in the Editorial Boards of the Intl. Journal on Data Warehousing and Mining and of the International Conference on Conceptual Structures, and was also member of several conference and workshop Program Committees.

Main Research Interests:

• social software
• semantic web
• knowledge discovery
• information retrieval
• social network analysis
• formal concept analysis