Short bio

Giancarlo Guizzardi has a PhD (with the highest distinction) from the University of Twente, The Netherlands. He is a member of the Faculty of Computer Science at the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy, where he leads the Conceptual and Cognitive Modeling Research Group (CORE). He has been active for more than two decades in the areas of Ontologies, Conceptual Modeling and Enterprise Semantics, authoring more than 230 peer-reviewed publications, which received more than a dozen international awards. He was a keynote speaker to more than two-dozen international events, is currently an associate editor for the Applied Ontology journal, a member of international journal editorial boards and of the Advisory Board of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA).
 

Main Research Areas

Applied Ontology, Conceptual Modeling, Enterprise Semantics and Information Systems Engineering