Markus Krötzsch

Markus Krötzsch is the professor for Knowledge-Based Systems in the Computer Science department at the Technical University of Dresden, in Germany. In 2005 he co-created, with Denny Vrandečić, the Semantic MediaWiki extension, for which he served as the project lead for around the next seven years. He also founded, and is still the president of, the Open Semantic Data Association, a German non-profit which, among other things, provides funding support for the annual SMWCon. Markus also provided important early assistance with Wikidata, a site released in 2012.