© Tiss: Maria Magdalena Ortiz de la Fuente

Associate Prof. Dr.techn. Maria Magdalena Ortiz de la Fuente, MSc was assigned to the Institute Logic and Computation, opens an external URL in a new window (E192) within the Faculty of Informatics, opens an external URL in a new window at TU Wien, assuming her post as Associate Professor for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, with effect from 1 June 2021.

Maria Magdalena Ortiz de la Fuente was born in Puebla (Mexico), where she studied Informatics at the Universidad de las Americas (magna cum laude). She then moved to Europe to participate from 2006 on in the Eureopean Master´s Program in Computational Logic (M.Sc, opens an external URL in a new window.), which was a joint programme of several universites in Portugal, Germany and Austria (TU Wien). After the finalisation of this Program she stayed at TU Wien starting her Doctoral Thesis, which she finished 2010 with the theme "Query Answering in Expressive Description Logics: Techniques and Complexity Results,, opens an external URL in a new window". 2015 she successfully applied for a tenure-track position on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning at TU Wien, which she completed in 2021. In addition she obtained her Venia Docendi, thus qualifiying her to teach in the area of Computer Science with a habilitation about "Improving data management using ontologies, opens an external URL in a new window".

Maria Magdalena Ortiz de la Fuente, opens an external URL in a new window has won several prizes for her work. Her scientific home is the Research Unit of Knowledge Based Systems, where she heads a Research Group on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. There she is developing tools and techniques for Intelligent Data Management. 

Publications by Maria Magdalena Ortiz de la Fuente in ReposiTUm, opens an external URL in a new window.