The team of Kreuzverweis currently includes:
Thomas Franz
Thomas Franz
Thomas Franz is a researcher on information systems and the Semantic Web at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. His research focus is on knowledge engineering and relevance ranking for personal knowledge management. He gained project management skills in various research projects. Currently, he is the leader of the largest workpackage on user interfaces and process support of the European research project X-MEDIA. Before he joined the University of Koblenz, Thomas has been employed by the research center for Knowledge Management at the University of Applied Sciences Cologne, Germany. Thomas holds a Masters degree and a diploma degree in computer science from the University of Freiburg and the University of Applied Sciences, Cologne (both in Germany). He received further international-level academic preparation from the Clemson University, USA, and the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.
Contact: thomas@kreuzverweis.com
Carsten Saathoff
Carsten Saathoff
Carsten Saathoff studied Computer Science at the Carl v. Ossietzky Univesity in Oldenburg, Germany, and is now finishing his PhD in computer science at the Web Science and Technologies Institiute at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. During studies he worked as software developer at a local internet company and in the national research project GERHARD2 on a semantic search engine. During his PhD he worked in the EU FP6 projects aceMedia and k-Space on the topic Semantic Multimedia. His research interests include Semantic Multimedia, Ontology Engineering, and Reasoning. He published and co-authored several papers in this area and actively develops the K-Space Annotation Tool (KAT) and the Multimedia Metadata Ontology (M3O).
Contact: carsten@kreuzverweis.com
Simon Schenk
Simon Schenk
Simon Schenk studied Computer Science and Business Management at NORDAKADEMIE, an industry funded university of applied sciences in Germany, and University of Karlstad, Sweden from 2000 to 2004. He received the Innovation Award 2005 by CeBit, Steria-Mummert Consulting, and Karriere for his diploma thesis on Peer-to-Peer Systems for Knowledge Management. After receiving his diploma, Simon worked as a Supply Chain Management Consultant for Capgemini before he started to work towards his PhD at the University of Koblenz-Landau in 2006. His research includes scalable, distributed querying and reasoning as well as provenance tracking for the Semantic Web. He has gathered project management experience by leading work packages of up to 10 researchers in major European projects. Simon is an invited expert at W3C’s working group for the Semantic Web Query Language SPARQL and an author and editor of a number of scientific publications.
Contact: simon@kreuzverweis.com
Ansgar Scherp
Ansgar Scherp
Ansgar Scherp leads a focus group for Interactive Web within the WeST Institute at the University of Koblenz-Landau. He studied and received his PhD with distinction in Oldenburg, Germany. From 2006 to 2008 he was employed as an EU Marie Curie Fellow at the University of California in Irvine, USA. His scientific interests include multimedia, semantic modelling of multimedia contents, event-based multimedia systems and human-centred computing.
Contact: ansgar@kreuzverweis.com
Rafael Feld
Rafael Feld
Rafael Feld studied Business Administration with a focus on E-Business at the University of Applied Science Remagen (Germany), and at the Universitat Jaume I (Spain). Due to his studies and his strong personal interest, Rafael Feld has broad and profound knowledge of the ICT-markets. His diploma thesis and academic research concentrated on the development of internet-based business ideas. During his studies he gained practical experience working as a student assistant at the management consulting Empirica (Bonn, Germany).
Contact: rafael@kreuzverweis.com