Tobias Kuhn

Tobias took an academic route. He obtained his master’s degree and PhD in computer science at the University of Zurich. He then was a postdoc at Yale and ETH Zurich and a guest researcher at the University of Chile and at Stanford before joining the Computer Science Department at VU Amsterdam as assistant professor. His award-winning dissertation on controlled English for knowledge representation was the starting point for many papers on the Semantic Web and wide recognition of his key contributions to nanopublications. At the same time, he was hatching more long-term ideas for how to revolutionize knowledge sharing. And at some point he realized that he could best put these ideas into practice as an entrepreneur. His perseverance and passion for semantic technologies led to the prototype of Nanodash and the vision of the knowledge space. With this he laid the foundation for our venture. Tobias' main task at Knowledge Pixels is to further develop the software and the concepts behind it.