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Prof. Dr. Birte Glimm

After completing my PhD at the University of Manchester (UK) in 2008 and a postdoctoral period at the University of Oxford (UK), I joined the Institute of Artificial Intelligence at Ulm University as a junior professor in 2011. I have held a W3 professorship since 2017 and assumed the role of Institute Director in 2022. Since 2026, I serve on the university’s executive board as Vice President Education and Internationalisation.

Since 2025, I have been co-spokesperson for the Research Training Group . Currently, I am also a member of the German Council of Science and Humanities’ working group on “AI in Research” and a member of the Senate and Grant Committee on Research Training Groups of the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Further Information

My scientific interest is mainly in knowledge representation, automatic reasoning and intelligent planning with application areas, among others, in medical AI and autonomous driving.

Current Scientific Activities and Academic Service

  • Vice President for Teaching and International Affairs (since 2026)
  • Member of the Grants and Senate Committee on Research Training Groups, German Research Foundation (DFG) (since 2025)
  • Member of the working group “AI in research” of the German Science and Humanities Council (Wissenschaftsrat) (since 2026)
  • Member of the Admission's Board MSc Cognitive Systems (since 2014)
  • Member of the Admission's Board MSc AI for Connected Industries (since 2025)
  • Head of the study programme MSc AI for Connected Industries (seit 2025)
  • Area Chair (2027)

Past Academic Service

  • 2022-2026 Deputy of the Examination Board Cognitive Systems
  • 2023-2026 Deputy of the Examination Board Computer Science
  • 2023-2026 Dean of Studies Computer Science
  • 2024-2026 Dean of Studies Cognitive Systems
  • 2024-2026 Chair of the study programme MSc Cognitive Systems
  • 2022-2026 Member of the Dr. rer. nat. PhD Commission (Computer Science)
  • 2014-2024 Chair of the Admission's Board MSc Cognitive Systems
  • 2019-2023 Chair of the Examination Board Computer Science
  • 2022-2023 Deputy Ombudsperson Good Research Practice
  • 2019-2022 Chair of the Exam Board Cognitive Systems
  • 2018-2021 Member of the Study Commission Cognitive Systems
  • 2021 Member of the Study Commission Computer Science
  • 2015-2018 Programme Coordination MSc Cognitive Systems

Past Scientific Activities

  • 2024-2026 Member of the focus group Artificial Intelligence of the German Science and Humanities Council (Wissenschaftsrat)
  • 2025 Area Chair
  • 2020-2023 Steering Commitee Center for AI (C4AI) fortiss/IBM
  • 2024 Chair KR in the Wild Track,
  • 2022 Co-Organiser of the Dagstuhl Perspectives Seminar "Current and Future Challenges in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning"
  • 2021 Scientific Advisary Board
  • 2017-2021 Member of the (Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Incorporated)
  • 2020 Scientific Advisary Board
  • 2017 Program Chair 
  • 2013-2016 Member of the
  • 2016 Editor of the Special Issue "Semantic Web" of the 
  • 2014 Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair of the 14th Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
  • 2013 General Chair of the 
  • 2009-2013 Editor of the W3C SPARQL 1.1 Entailment Regimes Standard
  • 2012 Program Chair of the
  • 2012 Satellite Events Chair of the
  • 2012 Poster & Demos Chair of the
  • 2009-2012 Editor of the W3C OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Conformance Standard
  • 2010-2011 Member of the
  • Senior Program Committee Member of , , , , , 
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  • Reviewer for the conferences and workshops: Tableaux 2013, CADE 2011, WWW 2010, WoLLIC 2010, KR 2010, IJCAR 2010, WWW 2009, ESSLLI 2009, KR 2008, ISWC 2008, WWW 2008, DL 2008, IJCAI 2007, CADE 2007, ISWC 2007, ESWC 2007, DL 2007, RR 2007, DL 2006, CADE 2005, ISWC 2005, ESWC 2005, LPAR 2005, DL 2005, OWL ED 2005, M4M 2005, ODBASE 2005, and DL 2004
  • Reviewer for the , , ,  , , , , ,
  • Reviewer for DFG, DAAD, BMBF, Dutch Technology Foundation (STW)

Projects and seminars in the area of AI, Planning, Ontologies and Semantic Web

Lectures

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WiSe 2022/2023: ,
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WiSe 2021/2022: Forschungssemester
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WiSe 2020/2021: 
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WiSe 2018/2019: , 
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WiSe 2017/2018: , 
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WiSe 2016/2017: ,
SoSe 2016: Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies
WiSe 2015/2016: 
SoSe 2015: Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies
WiSe 2013/2014: EinfĂĽhrung in die Informatik, Semantic Web Grundlagen
SoSe 2013: Algorithmen in der Wissensrepräsentation
WiSe 2012/2013: Semantic Web Grundlagen
SoSe 2012: Algorithmen in der Wissensrepräsentation
WiSe 2011/2012: Semantic Web Grundlagen

2026Teaching Bonus of the Computer Science Department of Ulm University
2025Best Paper Nomination at the
2024 European Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2024
2023, Nathan Gruber and Birte Glimm, Extended Semantic Web Conference
2020, Haonan Qiu, Adel Ayara and Birte Glimm, International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
2020Best Paper Nominee, Haonan Qiu, Adel Ayara and Birte Glimm, International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems 2020
2020Best Research Track Senior Programme Committee Member, International Semantic Web Conference
2019Kooperationspreis Wissenschaft-Wirtschaft
2019, Andreas Steigmiller and Birte Glimm, International Semantic Web Conference
2019, Andreas Steigmiller and Birte Glimm, International Semantic Web Conference
2017
2017Mileva Einstein-Marić-Preis 
2016, B. Parsia, N. Matentzoglu, R. S. Goncalves, B. Glimm and A. Steigmiller, International Semantic Web Conference
2015OWL Reasoner Evaluation Competition, 6 Tracks (Reasoner Konclude: 4 Ă— 1. and 2 Ă— 2. prize, Reasoner HermiT: 1 Ă— 2. and 4 Ă— 3. prize)
2014, International Semantic Web Conference
2014Kurt Gödel medal, 1. FLoC Olympic Games
2014OWL Reasoner Evaluation Competition, 6 Tracks (Reasoner Konclude: 5 Ă— 1. and 1 Ă— 2. prize, Reasoner HermiT: 1 Ă— 2. and 1 Ă— 3. prize)
2013OWL Reasoner Evaluation Competition, 9 Tracks (Reasoner Konclude: 3Ă—1., 2Ă—2. and 2 Ă— 3. prize, Reasoner HermiT: 1 Ă— 1., 2 Ă— 2. and 1 Ă— 3. prize)
2011Best Programme Committee Member Finalist, International Semantic Web Conference
2010, Birte Glimm, Ian Horrocks, Boris Motik and Giorgos Stoilos, International Semantic Web Conference
2008
09.04–09.07Doctoral scholarship of the Foundation of German Business
09.04–09.07Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council studentship
2004Best computer science degree in 2004 at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
04.02–07.04Scholarship of the Foundation of German Business

Publications

2026

111.
Pirwass, Alicia; Glimm, Birte; Munz, Michael; Wilke, Hans-Joachim
Do We Really Need Diffusion? A Fast U-Net for Paired Medical Image Translation
In Wolter, D., Schwalbe, G., Editor, Proceedings of KI 2026: Advances in Artificial Intelligence Volume 16830 from Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher: Springer
2026
DOI:
ISBN:978-3-032-32334-7
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2025

110.
Sundermann, Rahel; Krieter, Sebastian; Glimm, Birte; ThĂĽm, Thomas
Teaching Software Quality with Adaptive Source Code Feedback
Proc. German Workshop on Software-Reengineering and Evolution (WSRE), Page 10-12
Publisher: Gesellschaft fĂĽr Informatik
April 2025
109.
Pirwass, Alicia; Glimm, Birte; Munz, Michael; Wilke, Hans-Joachim
Automatability and validity of methods for the quantification of intra-/Intermuscular adipose tissue in conventional MRI: a systematic review
BMC Medical Imaging, 25 (1) :499
2025
Publisher: Springer
DOI:
ISBN:1471-2342
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108.
Illich, Moritz; Glimm, Birte
Backward/Forward with Marking for Update Streams
, Proceedings of the 38th International Workshop on Description Logics Volume 4091
Publisher: CEUR-WS.org
2025
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107.
Welt, Michael; Lodemann, Alexander; Olz, Conny; Bercher, Pascal; Glimm, Birte
Calculating Optimal Corrections for Unsolvable Planning Problems
Proceedings of the 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2025)
Publisher: IOS Press
2025
File:/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.090/Publikationen/2025/Welt2025Unsolvable.pdf
106.
Illich, Moritz; Glimm, Birte
Delete/Rederive with Marking for Update Streams
, The Semantic Web. ESWC 2025 Volume 15718 from Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Page 152–168
Publisher: Springer
2025
DOI:
ISBN:978-3-031-94574-8
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2024

105.
Delgrande, James P.; Glimm, Birte; Meyer, Thomas; Truszczynski, Miroslaw; Wolter, Frank
Current and Future Challenges in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 22282)
Dagstuhl Manifestos, 10 (1) :1-61
2024
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2023

104.
Santos-Teixeira, Milene; Welt, Michael; Glimm, Birte
Challenges on Deriving Planning Problems from Ontologies
Proceedings of the PLanning And onTology wOrkshop (PLATO)
2023
103.
Gruber, Nathan; Glimm, Birte
Comparative Research in Stream Reasoning
Proceedings of the 20th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2023) from Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
2023
102.
Welt, Michael; Glimm, Birte; Santos-Teixeira, Milene
Computing Minimal Unsolvable and Maximal Solvable Abstractions of Planning Problems via Hitting Set Trees
Proceedings of the Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS 2023)
2023
101.
Illich, Moritz; Glimm, Birte
Fully Dynamic Materialization Maintenance
, Proceedings of the 36th International Workshop on Description Logics Volume 3515
Publisher: CEUR-WS.org
2023
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2022

100.
Illich, Moritz; Glimm, Birte
Computing Concept Referring Expressions for Queries on Horn ALC Ontologies
Proceedings of the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI 2022)
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
2022
File:/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.090/Publikationen/2022/IlGl22a.pdf
99.
Illich, Moritz; Glimm, Birte
Computing Concept Referring Expressions with Standard OWL Reasoners
In Ofer Arieli and Martin Homola and Jean Christoph Jung and Marie-Laure Mugnier, Editor, Proceedings of the 35th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2022) Volume 3263 from CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Publisher: CEUR-WS.org
2022
File:pdf
98.
Glimm, Birte; Kazakov, Yevgeny; Welt, Michael
Concept Abduction for Description Logics
In Ofer Arieli and Martin Homola and Jean Christoph Jung and Marie-Laure Mugnier, Editor, Proceedings of the 35th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2022) Volume 3263 from CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Publisher: CEUR-WS.org
2022
File:pdf
97.
Delgrande, James P.; Glimm, Birte; Meyer, Thomas; Truszczynski, Miroslaw; Teixeira, Milene Santos; Wolter, Frank
Current and Future Challenges in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (Dagstuhl Seminar 22282)
Dagstuhl Reports, 12 (7) :62—79
2022
DOI:
File:
96.
Glimm, Birte; Kazakov, Yevgeny
SAT-Based Axiom Pinpointing Revisited
In Ofer Arieli and Martin Homola and Jean Christoph Jung and Marie-Laure Mugnier, Editor, Proceedings of the 35th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2022) Volume 3263 from CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Publisher: CEUR-WS.org
2022
File:pdf

2021

95.
Bercher, Pascal; Behnke, Gregor; Kraus, Matthias; Schiller, Marvin R. G.; Manstetten, Dietrich; Dambier, Michael; Dorna, Michael; Minker, Wolfgang; Glimm, Birte; Biundo, Susanne
Do It Yourself, but Not Alone: Companion-Technology for Home Improvement — Bringing a Planning-Based Interactive DIY Assistant to Life
Künstliche Intell., 35 (3) :367—375
2021
DOI:
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94.
Bercher, Pascal; Behnke, Gregor; Kraus, Matthias; Schiller, Marvin R. G.; Manstetten, Dietrich; Dambier, Michael; Dorna, Michael; Minker, Wolfgang; Glimm, Birte; Biundo, Susanne
Do It Yourself, but Not Alone: Companion-Technology for Home Improvement – Bringing a Planning-Based Interactive DIY Assistant to Life
Künstliche Intelligenz – Special Issue on NLP and Semantics
2021
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93.
Wenzel, Maximilian; Liebig, Thorsten; Glimm, Birte
HDT Bitmap Triple Indices for Efficient RDF Data Exploration
Proceedings of the 18th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2021) from Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
2021
92.
Qiu, Haonan; Ayara, Adel; Glimm, Birte
Ontology-Based Map Data Quality Assurance
Proceedings of the 18th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2021) from Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
2021
91.
Steigmiller, Andreas; Glimm, Birte
Parallelised ABox Reasoning and Query Answering with Expressive Description Logics
Proceedings of the 18th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2021) from Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
2021
90.
Steigmiller, Andreas; Glimm, Birte; Liebig, Thorsten
Query Answering and Scaling Extensions of Konclude
In Gunjan Singh and Raghava Mutharaju and Pavan Kapanipathi, Editor, Proceedings of the Semantic Reasoning Evaluation Challenge (SemREC 2021) Volume 3123 from CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Page 37—43
Publisher: CEUR-WS.org
2021
File:pdf

2020

89.
Qiu, Haonan; Ayara, Adel; Glimm, Birte
A Knowledge Architecture Layer for Map Data in Autonomous Vehicles
Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2020)
Publisher: IEEE
2020
File:/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.090/Publikationen/2020/QiAG20a.pdf
88.
Qiu, Haonan; Ayara, Adel; Glimm, Birte
A Knowledge-Spatial Architecture for Processing Dynamic Maps in Automated Driving
, Proceedings of the ISWC 2020 Posters & Demonstrations Track Volume 2721 from CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Publisher: CEUR-WS.org
2020
File:pdf/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.090/Publikationen/2020/QiAG20c.pdf
87.
Behnke, Gregor; Bercher, Pascal; Kraus, Matthias; Schiller, Marvin R. G.; Mickeleit, Kristof; Häge, Timo; Dorna, Michael; Dambier, Michael; Minker, Wolfgang; Glimm, Birte; Biundo, Susanne
New Developments for Robert – Assisting Novice Users Even Better in DIY Projects
Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2020), Page 343--347
Publisher: AAAI Press
2020
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File:pdf/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.090/Publikationen/2020/Behnke2020DIYAssistant.pdf