Werner Kuhn (professor)

Werner Kuhn is a professor of Geographic Information Science at the Institute for Geoinformatics of the University of Muenster, Germany, where he teaches on Geographic Information Science, geospatial semantics, reference systems, and cartography. Since 2002 he leads the Muenster Semantic Interoperability Lab (MUSIL) working on semantic interoperability, da integration, and ontologies for geospatial information. Werner Kuhn is also one of the founding members of the Vespucci Initiativefor Advancing Geographic Information Science, organizing annual summer schools and specialist meetings. Kuhn is a leading expert in the area of geospatial sematics and especially known for his work on Semantic Reference Systems as well as his work on desktop metaphors for Geographic Information Systems.

Between 1991 and 1996, Prof. Dr. Kuhn was an assistant professor in the Department of Geoinformation at the Technical University Vienna in Austria where he worked in the group of Prof. Andrew Frank. Before, Kuhn was a post-doctoral researcher at the US National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) at the University of Maine, USA. He got his doctorate in 1989 from ETH Zurich, Switzerland in Surveying Engineering with a thesis on sketch-based geometric modeling.

Dr. Kuhn was an elected member of the Council of AGILE (Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe, from 1998 to 2002), the international member of the Research Management Committee of the Canadian GEOIDE network (from 2001 to 2003), the Technical Director Europe of the Open GIS Consortium (from 1998 to 2001), and an Austrian delegate to CEN TC 287 on Geographic Information (from 1992 to 1995). Dr. Kuhn is a co-founder of the COSIT conference series and an editorial board member of the Semantic Web journal.

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