Rudolf F. Albrecht is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He was the head of the Institute of Informatics. He was also Professor at the University of Graz, Austria, and Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, the Technical University of Karlsruhe, Germany, at the Aeronautical Institute in Nanjing, PRC, and employed as Research Specialist by Philco Corp., Blue Bell, PA, and the Siemens Research Center, Princeton, N.J. He earned his academic degrees from the Technical University in Munich, Germany.

His main topics of research were partial differential equations, computer architecture, knowledge bases, pattern recognition, mathematical systems theory, topological theory of uncertainty, on which he published more than one hundred articles in scientific books and journals. He is Honorary Editor of the journal "Computing", Springer Vienna, New York.