As of 2010, Markus Krötzsch is a post-doctoral researcher at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory. He completed his PhD studies at the Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in 2010. His research interest is the intelligent automatic processing of information, ranging from the foundations of formal knowledge representation to application areas like the Semantic Web. He is the lead developer of the successful Semantic Web application platform Semantic MediaWiki, co-editor of the W3C OWL 2 specification, and chief maintainer of the semanticweb.org community portal.

Current information and contact details about Markus is given at his homepage http://korrekt.org/.

Pascal Hitzler (see http://www.pascal-hitzler.de/ for his personal homepage, and http://www.semantic-web-book.org/ and http://www.semantic-web-grundlagen.de/ for more information on his Semantic Web books) is endowed Lloyd T. Smith Creativity in Engineering Chair and Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (CAIDS) at the Department of Computer Science at Kansas State University. Until July 2019 he was endowed NCR Distinguished Professor, Brage Golding Distinguished Professor of Research, and Director of Data Science at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A. He is director of the Data Semantics (DaSe) Lab. From 2004 to 2009, he was Akademischer Rat at the Institute for Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, and from 2001 to 2004 he was postdoctoral researcher at the Artificial Intelligence institute at TU Dresden in Germany. In 2001 he obtained a PhD in Mathematics from the National University of Ireland, University College Cork, and in 1998 a Diplom (Master equivalent) in Mathematics from the University of Tübingen in Germany. His research record lists over 400 publications in such diverse areas as semantic web, artificial intelligence, neural-symbolic integration, knowledge representation and reasoning, machine learning, denotational semantics, and set-theoretic topology. His research is highly cited. He is founding Editor-in-chief of the Semantic Web journal, the leading journal in the field, and of the IOS Press book series Studies on the Semantic Web. He is co-author of the W3C Recommendation OWL 2 Primer, and of the book Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies by CRC Press, 2010, which was named as one out of seven Outstanding Academic Titles 2010 in Information and Computer Science by the American Library Association's Choice Magazine, and has translations into German and Chinese. He is on the editorial board of several journals and book series and a founding steering committee member of the Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning Association and the Association for Ontology Design and Patterns, and he frequently acts as conference chair in various functions. For more information about him, see http://www.pascal-hitzler.de.

Sebastian Rudolph (http://sebastian-rudolph.de/) is a full professor for Computational Logic at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. He obtained his PhD in mathematics from the Dresden University of Technology in 2006 and his habilitation in computer science from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 2011. His active research interests include knowledge representation, logic, algebra, complexity theory, machine learning, optimization, database theory, and computational linguistics. He stayed as a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford, the TU Vienna, the LIRMM in Montpellier and IRISA in Rennes. He contributed to the OWL 2 standard as participant of the OWL working group of the W3C, and co-authored two textbooks on Semantic Web modeling languages. Besides his academic work, he is a semiprofessional classical singer.