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Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Peter Knees, opens an external URL in a new window has been appointed University Professor of Information Processing and Retrieval at TU Wien with effect from January 1, 2026. He is assigned to the Institute of Information Systems Engineering, opens an external URL in a new window (E194) ofthe Faculty of Informatics, opens an external URL in a new window.

CV: 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 six years as a University Assistant at the Johann Kepler University in Linz, he successfully applied for a tenure track position at TU  Wien in 2016, which he first completed with the qualification of Associate Professor and now as a University 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". Since 2023, he has also headed the UNESCO Chair in Digital Humanism at TU  Wien. 

Peter Knees' scientific home is the above-mentioned institute, which he also heads. 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 the Scopus, opens an external URL in a new window database and in ReposiTUm, opens an external URL in a new window.