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Associate Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Peter Knees was assigned to the Institute of Information Systems Engineering, opens an external URL in a new window (E194) within the Faculty of Informatics, opens an external URL in a new window at the TU Wien, assuming his post as Associate Professor for Information Retrieval, with effect from 1 August 2021.

Peter Knees has studied Informatics at TU Wien and then moved to the University Linz, where he completed his doctorate in 2010 with a dissertation on "Text-based description of music for indexing, retrieval, and browsing, opens an external URL in a new window". After another 6 years as a university assistant at the University of Linz he successfully applied for a tenure-track position at TU Wien, which he completed successfully in 2021 as Associate Professor. In addition, in 2021 he obtained his Venia Docendi, thus qualifiying him to teach in the area of Informatics, with his habilitation on "Information retrieval and recommender systems for music listening and creation, opens an external URL in a new window".

Peter Knees scientific base is the Research Unit of Information and Software Engineering, opens an external URL in a new window. There he is doing research in the area of Music Information Retrieval (MIR), Web Information Retrieval, Multimedia Retrieval, Recommender Systems and Digital Media Arts.

Publications by Peter Knees in ReposiTUm, opens an external URL in a new window.