Axel Polleres

Axel Polleres is a full professor at the Institute for Data, Process and Knowledge Management in Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien). He leads the department of Information Systems and Operations Management while maintaining active research in knowledge graphs, semantic web technologies, and ontology engineering.

• PhD and Habilitation from Vienna University of Technology
• Former positions at University of Innsbruck, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, DERI Ireland, and Siemens AG
• Co-chair of W3C SPARQL working group
• Editorial board member for Semantic Web Journal and IJSWIS

His research focuses on:

• Querying and reasoning over ontologies
• Graph schema languages (SHACL, SPARQL)
• Wikidata constraint formalization
• Ontology reuse in collaborative platforms
• Crisis management knowledge graphs
• FAIR data principles implementation

Recent publications analyze knowledge graph evolution, constraint validation methodologies, and semantic web standardization efforts. Key topics include:

• OWL/RDF interoperability solutions
• Unit conversion systems for Wikidata
• Partition-based query processing frameworks
• Network resilience analysis for urban planning
• Open data platform discovery tools
• Temporal analysis of collaborative knowledge graphs

He has co-organized major conferences like ISWC2023 and ESWC workshops while maintaining active roles in European research projects. Current work involves spatiotemporal knowledge graphs for city resilience and semantic web infrastructure development.