Axel Polleres has worked at various Universities before joining Siemens Corporate Technology research as Senior Research Scientist in 2011; since September 2013 he works as a full professor in the area of Data and Knowledge Engineering at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna. His research interests include: Knowledge Representation & Management (Querying and Reasoning about Ontologies, Rules, Linked Data/Semantic Web technologies, Web Services) and integration of heterogeneous data. He actively participated in several European and national research projects, has published more than 100 articles in journals, books, and conference and workshop contributions and has co-chaired the SPARQL1.1 working group within the World Wide Web Consortium.