About Mr. Prof. Frank van Harmelen Ph.D.

Frank van Harmelen is a in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning at VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He studied Mathematics and Computer Science in Amsterdam, and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh (Department of AI).

He was one of the designers of OWL, the W3C standard Web Ontology Language. He is scientific advisor of Aduna, one of the earliest companies in the Semantic Web arena, and developers of the Sesame RDF storage and retrieval engine. He has published over 100 papers, many of them in leading journals and conferences, and many of them highly cited.

One of his five books is the Semantic Web Primer, the first text book on Semantic Web technology (now deployed in university courses across the world, with translations in Spanish, Japanese, Chinese and Korean). He is currently the scientific director of the EU 7th framework project LarKC, aiming to build the Large Knowledge Collider, an infrastructure for very large automated reasoning at web scale.