Professor Dr.sc.techn. Werner Kuhn

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Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • Semantik von Geoinformation
  • Ontologie
  • Interoperabilität

Academic Education

06/1996Habilitation an der Technischen Universität Wien
06/1989 - 07/1991Post Doctoral Research Associate, University of Maine (USA)
05/1982 - 05/1989Researcher, Institute for Geodesy and Photogrammetry, ETH Zurich; Doctoral Studies, Degree: Dr. sc. techn.
10/1976 - 05/1982Undergraduate Studies in Surveying Engineering, Degree: Dipl. Verm. Ing. ETH

Work Experience

since 11/2003Professor für Geoinformatik (C4), Institut für Geoinformatik, WWU Münster
since 05/1995Dozent, Institut für Geoinformation und Kartographie, Technische Universität Wien (Österreich)
since 09/1984External Graduate Faculty, Department of Spatial Information Science & Engineering, University of Maine (USA)
09/1996 - 11/2003Professor für Geoinformatik (C3), Institut für Geoinformatik, WWU Münster
09/1984 - 08/1985Visiting Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Maine (USA)

Functions and Memberships

since 01/2002Co-founder, Vespucci Initiative for the Advancement of Geographic Information Science (vespucci.org)
since 09/1992Co-Founder and Steering Committee Member, Conferences on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT (cosit.info)
01/2007 - 12/2007Visiting Scientist, National eScience Centre, Edinburgh (UK)
10/2002 - 04/2003Visiting Scientist, Meaning and Computation Lab (Prof. Joseph Goguen), UCSD

Appointments

2003Offer to a Professorship, Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm

Publications

Kuhn Werner, Bartoschek Thomas (2012)
In: 2012 Specialist Meeting — Spatial Thinking Across the College Curriculum, Santa Barbara, .
Type of Publication: Abstract in digital collection (conference)
Scheider Simon, Keßler Carsten, Ortmann Jens, Devaraju Anusuriya, Trame Johannes, Kauppinen Tomi, Kuhn Werner (2011)
In: Ashish Naveen, Sheth Amit (eds.), Geospatial Semantics and Semantic-Web: Foundations, Algorithms, Applications. Springer VDI Verlag.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
Kuhn Werner, Brox Christoph (2011)
In: (eds.), . Utrecht (The Netherlands): (no publisher available).
Type of Publication: Research article in edited proceedings (conference)
Ortmann Jens, Kuhn Werner (2010)
In: Galton Antony, Mizoguchi Riichiro (eds.), Formal Ontology in Information Systems Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference (FOIS 2010). Amsterdam Berlin Tokyo Washington, DC: IOP Publishing.
Type of Publication: Research article in edited proceedings (conference)
Devaraju A, Kuhn W (2010)
In: (eds.), . IOP Publishing.
Type of Publication: Research article in edited proceedings (conference)
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Projects

Duration: 01/04/2013 - 31/03/2014
Funded by: DFG - Scientific Library Services and Information Systems
Type of project: Individual project
Duration: 01/01/2010 - 31/12/2012
Funded by: EC FP 7 - Collaborative Project
Type of project: EU-project hosted outside University of Münster
Duration: 28/01/2009 - 20/03/2009
Funded by: DFG - Individual Grants Programme
Type of project: Individual project
Duration: 05/06/2008 - 31/03/2013 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - International Research Training Group
Type of project: Main DFG-project hosted at University of Münster
Duration: 04/06/2007 - 30/06/2009
Funded by: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Type of project: Participation in BMBF-joint project
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Prizes

Lehrpreis 2004 der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Awarded by: Rectorate of the University of Münster
Award given to: Kuhn, Werner
Announced at: 15/01/2005 | Date of awarding: 15/01/2005
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction

Doctorates

Spatial Learning with Geospatial Technologies
Candidate: Bartoschek, Thomas | Supervisors: Schwering, Angela; Kuhn, Werner
Period of time: until 20/06/2017
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Integration of Sensor Data by means of an Event Abstraction Layer
Candidate: Llaves Arellano, Alejandro | Supervisors: Kuhn, Werner
Period of time: until 18/11/2013
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Semantic Integration of Human and Technical Observations
Candidate: Ortmann, Jens | Supervisors: Kuhn, Werner
Period of time: 01/09/2009 - 30/01/2013
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Places in the Long Tail
Candidate: Maué, Patrick | Supervisors: Kuhn, Werner
Period of time: 30/08/2012 - 06/12/2012
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Representing and reasoning about geographic occurrences in the sensor web
Candidate: Devaraju, Anusuriya | Supervisors: Kuhn, Werner
Period of time: 21/02/2012 - 19/04/2012
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
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