| Franz Baader | |
| Birth Date: | 1959 6, df=y |
| Workplaces: | Dresden University of Technology, RWTH Aachen University, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence |
| Thesis Title: | Unifikation und Reduktionssysteme für Halbgruppenvarietäten |
| Thesis Year: | 1989 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Klaus Leeb |
| Doctoral Students: | Ulrike Sattler[1] |
Franz Baader (15 June 1959, Spalt) is a German computer scientist at Dresden University of Technology.[2]
He received his PhD in Computer Science in 1989 from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, where he was a teaching and research assistant for 4 years. In 1989, he went to the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) as a senior researcher and project leader.
In 1993 he became associate professor for computer science at RWTH Aachen, and in 2002 full professor for computer science at TU Dresden.[3]
He received the Herbrand Award for the year 2020 "in recognition of his significant contributions to unification theory, combinations of theories and reasoning in description logics".[4]