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Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Stefan Woltran was confirmed permanently as University Professor of Formal Foundations of Artificial Intelligence at TU Wien with effect from 1 April 2020. He is assigned to the Institute of Logic and Computation, opens an external URL in a new window (E192) in the Faculty of Informatics, opens an external URL in a new window.

Stefan Woltran studied Informatics at TU Wien, where he was awarded his doctorate (with distinction) in 2003 for his thesis on "Quantified boolean formulas - From theory to practice, opens an external URL in a new window". In 2009, he obtained his Venia Docendi, thus qualifying him to teach in the field of Information Systems with his habilitation on "Contributions to advanced equivalence checking in answer set programming", opens an external URL in a new window. In 2013, he received the FWF'S START award for the topic of "Decomposition and dynamic programming for complex calculation problems". After spending some time abroad at the University of Leipzig, he was appointed Associate Professor of Formal Foundations of Artificial Intelligence in 2015. Since Febuary 2015 he was holding a temporary professorship for Formal Foundations of Artificial Intelligence.

He is currently Head of the Research Unit for Databases and Artificial Intelligence (AI), opens an external URL in a new window (E192-02). He is also Vice Dean of Academic Affairs, opens an external URL in a new window of the Faculty of Informatics.

Publications by Stefan Woltran in ReposiTUm, opens an external URL in a new window